Tara Sutton is a Canadian journalist and filmmaker whose work in conflict zones has received many awards. She was one of the first international television correspondents to both produce and shoot their own reports and is a pioneer in the field of "

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". She was the only unembedded television reporter to enter

Fallujah Fallujah ( ar, ٱلْفَلُّوجَة, al-Fallūjah, Iraqi pronunciation: ) is a city in the Iraqi province of Al Anbar, located roughly west of Baghdad on the Euphrates. Fallujah dates from Babylonian times and was host to important J ...

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during the siege of the city during the first battle of Fallujah in 2004. She sneaked into the city disguised in a veil and made a controversial film that aired on

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. The film documented

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abuses and war crimes and was awarded the Amnesty Media Awards for television news in 2005. Previously she had spent months in Fallujah documenting the rise of the insurgency, often living at Fallujah hospital for safety. Her report for BBC Newsnight was the first to suggest that Iraqi prisoners were being tortured, months before the Abu Ghraib scandal broke. She has twice been a finalist for the

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Awards, which honor bravery by cameramen in war zones. She has reported from

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, Jordan, Darfur,

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, Colombia,

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. She is freelance and her work appears on

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, CBC, Channel One,

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and The Guardian. Her writing appears in

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and

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Personal life

The journalist was a close friend of the humanitarian Marla Ruzicka who died in Iraq in 2005. Marla left CIVIC, the organization she founded to Tara Sutton in her will, asking her to take care of it and appoint a new executive director. She attended

St Mary's School, Calne St Mary's School is an independent day and boarding school in Calne, Wiltshire, for girls aged 11 to 18. The school is a registered charity. St Mary's Calne is the top performing independent school in the South West, ranked by 2017 examinatio ...

a boarding school in Wiltshire, England and the

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in New York, and University of Toronto.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sutton, Tara Living people Canadian television journalists Canadian war correspondents People educated at St Mary's School, Calne Canadian women television journalists Year of birth missing (living people)