AUSTRALIA
Mark Davis - Video Journalist
Mark Davis
Mark Davis is one of Australia's foremost video journalists. His impressive body of work has won five Walkley awards, including the prestigious Gold Walkley for Blood Money, a Dateline report on the funding of pro-Indonesian militias in East Timor. See No Evil, another Dateline story set in East Timor, was honoured with a Logie.
Last year, Mark put the genre of video journalism to perfect use, in his telling piece about the trial of David Hicks. He also reported from Turkey as it faced a landmark election (Turkey On The Turn).
Mark presented Dateline in 2003-04, covering a period in which America and its allies invaded Iraq and Australia sent a police force to Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. During this time Mark became a Walkley Award finalist for his studio interviews with Malaysia’s former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed, Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf and the then Attorney-General of Australia, Philip Ruddock.
Previously with the ABC's Foreign Correspondent and Four Corners programs, Mark has travelled alone to some of the most extraordinary corners of the earth, working extensively in Afghanistan, Asia and Melanesia. In 1997 he won a World Medal at the New York Film and Television Festival for his work in Afghanistan.
For further information please contact SBS publicist Christine Heard on 02 9403 3794 or christine.heard@sbs.com.au
