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Paul Douglas is a British journalist and camera operator. He was born in 1957 in the United Kingdom. He is best known for his work on the BBC's flagship news program, Newsnight.
Douglas began his career as a camera operator in the early 1980s, working on a variety of documentaries and news programs. He then moved into journalism, working as a reporter and producer for the BBC. He has since worked on a number of high-profile news programs, including Newsnight, Panorama, and The World at One.
Douglas has won several awards for his work, including a BAFTA for his coverage of the Iraq War in 2003. He has also been nominated for a number of other awards, including a Royal Television Society Award for his coverage of the 2011 London riots.
As of 2021, Paul Douglas's net worth is estimated to be roughly $1 million. He has earned his wealth through his successful career as a journalist and camera operator.
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, 1957 |
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May 29, 2006, |
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Karrada, Baghdad, Iraq |
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United Kingdom |
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Paul Douglas Height, Weight & Measurements
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Paul Douglas Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Paul Douglas worth at the age of 49 years old? Paul Douglas’s income source is mostly from being a successful Journalist. He is from United Kingdom. We have estimated
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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The New York-based NGO Committee to Protect Journalists, reiterated their Parisian counterpart, "The news profession has lost nearly 100 people in this devastating war – 71 journalists and 26 support staffers. Dozens more have been injured or kidnapped in one of the most dangerous conflicts that journalists have ever covered."
A 2011 cricket match was organised in honour of the Douglas and his colleague Brolan by the Rory Peck Trust, a charitable organisation for fallen journalists.
Dozier published her book "Breathing the Fire" in 2008 after her recovery, which deals with her colleagues and the attack. While recovering, she asked about her crew. In an interview with BBC News, she said she struggled psychologically with survivor's guilt.
Paul Douglas (1957 – 29 May 2006) was a British CBS News journalist and TV camera operator, who, along with soundman James Brolan, was killed from an explosion of a car bomb in the Karrada district, Baghdad, Iraq. He was best known for his video images from war zones and areas of conflict that he had been assigned to since the early 1990s.
Paul Douglas was a based in London with CBS News had worked with the network since the early 1990s, about 17 years. Prior to working for CBS, he worked for ITV. He first worked as a sound man and then became a camera operator. His career as a news camera operator took him to other wars and conflicts besides Iraq, and he was in Sarajevo, Bosnia from at least 1993–1994 covering the Siege of Sarajevo, Rwanda, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Douglas had been assigned with Dan Rather when the CBS anchor reported from Afghanistan, Israel and Iraq.
Assigned to cover the Iraq war by CBS, correspondent Kimberly Dozier, Douglas, Brolan were embedded with the 4th Brigade Combat Team of the 4th Infantry Division. Initially, the CBS crew was assigned to cover a story about what US troops were doing on "Memorial Day" for a holiday TV news report, but the team was diverted to the Karrada peninsula location where the 500-pound bomb was detonated as the team examined a checkpoint that had been bombed on the previous day. Paul Douglas and Brolan were outside of their vehicle with protective gear when the car bomb exploded and killed them both along with Captain James "Alex" Funkhouser and a translator named "Sam". Dozier, who was walking behind the four killed, was critically injured in the attack. Six soldiers were also injured in the attack.
On World Press Freedom Day 2007, which is held annually on third day of May, the city of Bayeux, France, officially dedicated a memorial for journalists who have been killed while reporting. The number of names of journalists on the memorial numbered 1,889 who had been killed since 1944, according to Reporters Without Borders. Bayeux was selected because its symbolic for its 7 June 1944 liberation by Allies during World War II due to its proximity to the invasion of Normandy.
