Sebastian Walker

Walker held multiple leadership roles at VICE News, where he contributed to the network's award-winning journalism through field reporting, documentary film production, and editorial leadership from 2016 to 2024. Walker was one of the founding contributors for Vice News Tonight{{cite web |last1=Horgan |first1=Richard |title=Josh Tyrangiel Heralds 'Boatload' of Vice News Hires |url=https://www.adweek.com/performance-marketing/josh-tyrangiel-vice-news-july-hires/ |website=Adweek.com |publisher=Adweek |access-date=13 July 2016}} serving first as Middle East Bureau Chief before going on to run VICE's politics team based in Washington DC.{{cite web |last1=Ellefson |first1=Lindsey |title=Vice’s ‘Boots on the Ground’ Coverage Earns 23 Emmy Noms – Tops in News and Documentary |url=https://www.thewrap.com/vices-boots-on-the-ground-coverage-earns-23-emmy-noms-tops-in-news-and-documentary/ |website=TheWrap.com |publisher=The Wrap |access-date=28 September 2021}} He led VICE's coverage of the 2020 United States presidential election, earning an Emmy for "Outstanding Newscast" at the 42nd News and Documentary Emmy Awards.{{cite web |last1=Grobar |first1=Matt |title=News & Documentary Emmys: CNN Leads On Night 1, As ‘Vice News Tonight’ Garners New Award For Outstanding Newscast |url=https://deadline.com/2021/09/news-and-documentary-emmys-2021-winners-list-1234846419/ |website=deadline.com |publisher=Deadline |access-date=28 September 2021}}

In 2021, Walker was one of the first international journalists to arrive in Kabul after the Taliban took over, producing a documentary "Return of the Taliban" for Vice that won "Best News Coverage: Long Form" at the 43rd News and Documentary Emmy Awards.{{cite web |last1=Schneider |first1=Michael |title=ABC, Vice Lead 2022 News Emmy Award Winners |url=https://variety.com/2022/tv/awards/abc-vice-2022-news-emmy-award-winners-1235387811/ |website=variety.com |publisher=Variety |access-date=29 September 2022}} Walker's reporting from the frontlines of the fight against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria the Emmy for "Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a Newscast" at both the 38th{{cite web |last1=Pedersen |first1=Erik |title=PBS & CBS Lead The Field Again At News & Documentary Emmys: Complete Winners List |url=https://deadline.com/2017/10/news-and-documentary-emmy-awards-2017-winners-list-1202183055/ |website=deadline.com |publisher=Deadline |access-date=5 October 2017}} and the 41st News and Documentary Emmy Awards.{{cite web |last1=Press release |first1=Press release |title=WINNERS IN TELEVISION NEWS PROGRAMMING FOR THE 41ST ANNUAL NEWS & DOCUMENTARY EMMY® AWARDS ANNOUNCED |url=https://theemmys.tv/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/news-41st-news-programming-winners-09-21-20.pdf |website=theemmys.tv |publisher=National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences |access-date=21 September 2020}}

Walker worked for Al Jazeera English in the United States from 2008 to 2016. First based at Al Jazeera English's main US bureau in Washington, D.C. and then in Al Jazeera America's San Francisco Fault Lines show hub, he was a presenter on Fault Lines, the channel's flagship news magazine about the Americas, and reported from across the continent.{{cite news| url=http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/faultlines/ | title=Fault Lines Website }}

Before joining Fault Lines, Walker was a foreign correspondent with a particular interest in Haiti. Al Jazeera English was the only international TV news network to maintain a bureau in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake{{cite news| url=http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/May2010/04/c8306.html | work=CNW | author=Mark | title=Al Jazeera English Launches in Canada on Bell TV, Rogers and Vidéotron | date=May 4, 2010}} and Sebastian arrived in Port-au-Prince less than 24 hours after the earthquake hit to report on the damage. He then stayed on for a year and a half to document the progress of the relief effort.{{cite interview |last=Walker |first=Sebastian Walker|url=http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2010-12-13/turmoil-haiti/transcript |interviewer=Diane Rehm |title=Turmoil in Haiti |date=December 13, 2010 |work=The Diane Rehm Show }} Walker was instrumental in discovering and documenting the United Nations' role in the 2010–13 Haiti cholera outbreak, the largest such outbreak in recent history.{{cite web |url=https://news.vice.com/video/uncovering-a-mysterious-cholera-outbreak-in-haiti-correspondent-confidential |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140904133718/https://news.vice.com/video/uncovering-a-mysterious-cholera-outbreak-in-haiti-correspondent-confidential |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 4, 2014 |title=Uncovering a Mysterious Cholera Outbreak in Haiti: Correspondent Confidential |work=Vice News |author=Sebastian Walker |date=September 3, 2014 |accessdate=September 3, 2014}} Walker won a DuPont-Columbia University Award in Broadcast Journalism for his work in Haiti.[http://america.aljazeera.com/profiles/w/sebastian-walker.html Al Jazeera America profile: Sebastian Walker] He continued covering Haiti at Fault Lines, which was awarded a News & Documentary Emmy Award for "Outstanding Investigative Journalism in a News Magazine" on 30 September 2014 for the episode "Haiti In A Time Of Cholera",[http://emmyonline.org/news_35th_winners 35th ANNUAL News & Documentary Emmy Awards Winners] which also earned a Peabody Award.[http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/fault-lines-haiti-in-a-time-of-cholera-al-jazeera-america The Peabody Awards - Fault Lines: Haiti in a Time of Cholera (Al Jazeera America)]

Walker has also repeatedly covered the Occupy movement in the US and the shooting of Michael Brown near St. Louis, Missouri, which precipitated sustained protests.

Prior to being based in the Americas, Walker worked in the Middle East. He served at the channel's main broadcast centre in Doha, Qatar, where he helped to launch the channel.{{Citation needed|date=August 2011}}

Walker has worked for the Baghdad Bulletin,{{cite news | url=http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=24120§ioncode=1 | work=Press Gazette | first1=Dominic | last1=Ponsford | title=Baghdad Bulletin bites dust | date=10 October 2003 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://archive.today/20120907232301/http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=24120§ioncode=1 | archive-date=7 September 2012 }} and various international news organisations, including Reuters{{cite book |last1=Garthwaite |first1=Rosie |title=How to Avoid Being Killed in a War Zone |url=http://issuu.com/bloomsburypublishing/docs/howtoavoidbeingkilledinawarzone_search |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230224214336/https://issuu.com/bloomsburypublishing/docs/howtoavoidbeingkilledinawarzone_search |archive-date=2023-02-24 |date=21 June 2011 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |url-status=dead |access-date=2011-08-19 }} and AFP, and has reported from a number of key countries around the Middle East region, including: Iraq,{{cite news| url=https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-104992326 | work=The Baghdad Bulletin | first1=Sebastian | last1=Walker | title=Where deadlines can prove fatal | date=9 July 2003}}{{cite book |last1=Garthwaite |first1=Rosie |title=How to Avoid Being Killed in a War Zone |url=http://issuu.com/bloomsburypublishing/docs/howtoavoidbeingkilledinawarzone_search |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230224214336/https://issuu.com/bloomsburypublishing/docs/howtoavoidbeingkilledinawarzone_search |archive-date=2023-02-24 |date=21 June 2011 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |url-status=dead |access-date=2011-08-19 }} Libya, and Afghanistan.{{Citation needed|date=August 2011}}

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