Ben C. Solomon

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| occupation = Journalist, filmmaker

| education = DePauw University

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| credits = The New York Times, "Frontline (American TV program), VICE News

| awards = Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, 2015

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Ben C. Solomon (born November 4, 1987) is an American filmmaker and journalist. Since January 2024, he has been a senior video correspondent at The Wall Street Journal.{{Cite web |title=Ben C. Solomon Joins WSJ as Senior Video Correspondent |url=https://www.dowjones.com/press-room/ben-c-solomon-joins-wsj-as-senior-video-correspondent/?LS=ll& |access-date=2024-04-24 |website=Dow Jones |language=en-US}} He was formerly an international correspondent for VICE News.{{Cite web|last=Holleman|first=Joe|title=Ladue native Ben Solomon takes job as VICE producer|url=https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/columns/joe-holleman/ladue-native-ben-solomon-takes-job-as-vice-producer/article_d52ca5b5-f248-5660-8c3d-fb5fbfa22979.html|access-date=November 19, 2020|website=STLtoday.com|language=en}} He was the inaugural filmmaker-in-residence at Frontline{{Cite web|title=FRONTLINE Expands Its Reporting Ranks, Hiring Pulitzer Prize-winning Video Journalist; Investigative Reporter for an Interactive Documentary; and Two New Journalism Fellows|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/announcement/frontline-strengthens-reporting-team-with-hires-of-pulitzer-prize-winning-journalist-and-reporter-for-new-interactive-documentary-selection-of-new-journalism-fellows/|access-date=November 8, 2019|website=FRONTLINE|language=en-US}} after spending nine years as a foreign correspondent and video journalist for The New York Times. In 2015, Solomon won a Pulitzer Prize as part of a team of Times reporters working in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea during the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa. He has reported from over 60 countries including numerous war zones, including Syria, Iraq, Libya and Ukraine.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/04/20/business/media/21pulitzer-winners-finalists.html|title=2015 Pulitzer Prize Winners in Journalism, Letters, Drama and Music|first=The New York|last=Times|newspaper=The New York Times|date=April 20, 2015|publisher=}}{{cite web|url=http://www.depauw.edu/news-media/latest-news/details/31618/|title=Ben Solomon '10 and New York Times Colleagues Win Pulitzer Prize|publisher=DePauw University|accessdate=September 7, 2015|date=April 20, 2015}}{{cite web|url=http://www.pjstar.com/article/20150427/NEWS/150429228|title=Former Peorian's son wins Pulitzer Prize for coverage of Ebola epidemic|first=Victoria Berkow of the Journal|last=Star|publisher=}}

Early life and education

Solomon graduated from Ladue Horton Watkins High School in 2006.[https://www.laduefoundation.org/news/2016/12/27/pulitzer-prize-winning-alumnus-ben-solomon-to-speak-at-lef-breakfast "Pulitzer Prize-Winning Alumnus Ben Solomon to Speak at LEF Breakfast"]. Ladue Education Foundation and Alumni Association, January 1, 2017. Accessed February 8, 2018. Solomon attended DePauw University, where he majored in communications and minored in studio art. After graduating in 2010, Solomon started as an intern at The New York Times. When the Arab Spring broke out, he moved to Cairo, where he worked as a freelancer for two years.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/times-insider/2014/07/23/filming-conflict-and-culture/|title=Filming Conflict and Culture|first=Erika|last=Allen|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 23, 2014|publisher=}}

Selected awards

2023: News & Documentary Emmy Award Continuing News Coverage: Long Form "Putin's War on Ukraine"{{Cite web |last=Schneider |first=Michael |date=2023-09-28 |title=News & Documentary Emmys 2023: Full Winners List |url=https://variety.com/2023/tv/awards/emmys-news-documentary-winners-2023-wolf-blitzer-barbara-kopple-1235738429/ |access-date=2024-08-08 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}
2022: Prix Bayeux Grand Format Television Trophy: 2nd Place "The Fall of Kandahar"{{Cite web |last=Admin |date=2022-10-08 |title=29th edition of the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award: results |url=http://www.prixbayeux.org/en/2022/10/08/29th-edition-of-the-bayeux-calvados-normandy-award-results/ |access-date=2022-10-19 |website=Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award |language=en-US}}
2022: News & Documentary Emmy Award Best News Coverage: Long Form, "Return of the Taliban"{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/43rd-Annual-News-and-Doc-9-28-22-1.pdf|title=43rd Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards – Winners|work=Deadline Hollywood|date=September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221012022350/https://deadline.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/43rd-Annual-News-and-Doc-9-28-22-1.pdf|archive-date=October 12, 2022|url-status=live}}
2022: News & Documentary Emmy Award Video Journalism, "Return of the Taliban"
2019: News & Documentary Emmy Award Video Journalism, "Ebola in Congo"{{Cite web|url=https://theemmys.tv/news-41st-news-programming-winners/|title = 41st News programming Winners – the Emmys}}
2016: Cannes Lions Grand Prix, "The Displaced"{{cite web|url=http://www.canneslionsarchive.com/winners/entry/774924/nyt-vr|title=Sign In :: Cannes Lions Archive|website=www.canneslionsarchive.com}}
2016: World Press Photo, First prize, Innovative Storytelling, "The Displaced"{{cite web|url=http://www.nytco.com/nyt-mag-wins-two-world-press-photo-awards-for-multimedia/|title=NYT Mag Wins Two World Press Photo Awards for Multimedia – The New York Times Company|website=www.nytco.com|date=April 23, 2016}}
2016: Edward R. Murrow Award, Breaking News (Video), "Paris coverage"
2016: Overseas Press Club Awards, David Kaplan Award, "Paris"{{citation needed|date=February 2018}}
2015: Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting{{cite web|url=http://www.depauw.edu/news-media/latest-news/details/31618/|title=Ben Solomon '10 and New York Times Colleagues Win Pulitzer Prize – DePauw University|publisher=}}
2015: World Press Photo, Multimedia 2nd prize, "Ebola Ambulance"{{cite web|url=http://www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/multimedia/2015/short-feature/fighting-ebola-outbreak-street-street|title=Fighting Ebola Outbreak Street by Street|publisher=}}
2015: Edward R. Murrow Award, Continuing Coverage (Video), "The Ebola Crisis"{{Cite web |url=http://dev.rtdna.org.php56-25.dfw3-1.websitetestlink.com/content/2015_national_edward_r_murrow_award_winners |title=RTDNA : 2015 National Edward R. Murrow Award Winners |access-date=December 14, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220182150/http://dev.rtdna.org.php56-25.dfw3-1.websitetestlink.com/content/2015_national_edward_r_murrow_award_winners |archive-date=December 20, 2016 |url-status=dead }}
2014: George Polk Award, Health Reporting{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/16/nyregion/fourteen-george-polk-awards-in-journalism-are-given-including-three-to-the-times.html|title=Polk Awards in Journalism Are Announced, Including Three for The Times|first=Anemona|last=Hartocollis|newspaper=The New York Times|date=February 15, 2015|publisher=}}
2013: POYi Multimedia Photographer of the year, 3rd place{{cite web|url=https://www.poyi.org/71/40/third_01.php|title=Third Place – Multimedia Photographer of the Year|website=www.poyi.org}}

References

Category:1987 births

Category:Living people

Category:Ladue Horton Watkins High School alumni

Category:DePauw University alumni

Category:The New York Times journalists

Category:21st-century American journalists