Honours for E-Waste Documentary

Ghana: Digital Dumping Ground, the short documentary I helped produce last year as a part of the UBC Graduate School of Journalism's international journalism class has won a Society of Professional Journalists award.

Splitting into three groups, we filmed the piece, about the illegal export of broken computers and other electronics, in China and Hong Kong, Ghana and India. The documentary was a collaboration by many people, including Doerthe Keilholz, Dan Haves and Ian Bickis (and several other talented folks who don't have websites). Our class was led by producer/professor Peter Klein and CBS News Johannesburg correspondent Sarah Carter.

Ten of us former students have also been nominated for the Livingston Young Journalists Award for International Reporting for our work on the documentary. The winners will be announced June 2.