Welcome to the Homepage of the BIR

 
We are a non profit 501(c)(3) video news production company dedicated to offering affordable coverage of overlooked international news stories to American news providers - and hence the underserved American public. 

The BIR strives to examine issues and places that often remain unreported because of the constraints of the modern US news market.  Our model is to use new technology and streamlined production to efficiently yet thoroughly cover stories that otherwise would remain untold.  

Our co-executive directors have a combined 30 years experience in network television news and have worked for ABC, CBS, CNN, PBS, Discovery, CBC and the New York Times.  They have reported from over 25 countries worldwide.

Please see our donate page to help support our work.

Thank you for your interest.

Awards

The BIR's work has received substantial recognition, including:

-Robert F Kennedy Memorial International Television Award

-First Place, News Magazine, National Headliner Awards

-Emmy Nominations for Outstanding Continuing Coverage and Best Report in a News Magazine

Click below for more details:

RFK Award

National Headliner Award

Emmy Awards

Some Areas and Regions of Speciality

• Southeast Asia
• Sub-Saharan Africa
• International Justice
• International Security
• Post Conflict Reconstruction
  
• Nuclear Proliferation
  

Latest News (Feb, 2010):

On January 12, 2010, the BIR was filming its report on maternal health in Haiti when the earthquake struck. Our team was outside Port-au-Prince at the time and managed to get back safely. Our report aired on Now on PBS on January 29, 2010. See it here.

More news:

In late 2009 and early 2010, the BIR's Fragile States series featured reports from East Timor, Bosnia and Haiti on PBS NewsHour (Links below).  For more reporting, please visit the Fragile States Gateway, hosted by our partners at the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

Read a posting on the PBS NewsHour site containing comments made by Secretary of State Hilary Clinton about the BIR's report from Haiti that aired the day before the earthquake.

Read an article at the Nieman Journalism lab on NGOs and the News, featuring the BIR.

Read an article in the Nov/Dec 2009 Dartmouth Alumni Magazine about Jason Maloney and the BIR.

Read the BIR December 2009 Newsletter

Read the BIR August 2009 Newsletter

BIR Video Reports: 

Most BIR reports are available on YouTube and iTunes, many in high definition.

Watch the BIR's 1/29/10 report on global maternal health, filmed in Haiti at the time of the earthquake:

Saving Haiti's Mothers

Transcript/Now on PBS Page

Watch the BIR's 1/11/10 report from Haiti, a part of the Fragile States series:

Haiti's Moment of Hope

Transcript/NewsHour Page

Watch the BIR's 1/6/10 report on the role of history in shaping Bosnia's society in the wake of it's brutal civil war, as aired on PBS Worldfocus.

Bosnia's Troubled History

Worldfocus page

Watch the BIR's 11/18/09 report from Bosnia, a part of the Fragile States series:

Continuing Tensions in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Transcript/NewsHour Page

Watch the BIR's 11/14/09 report from East Timor, as part of our Fragile States series: 

East Timor: 10 Years On

Transcript/NewsHour Page

Watch the BIR's report on UN Peacekeeping in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, filmed in March, 2009 and broadcast on Now on PBS in May:

Now on PBS Can the UN Keep the Peace?

YouTube HD Version

Watch the BIR's reports out of the breakaway Republic of Abkhazia, filmed just days before this summer's Russia/Georgia War, on PBS NewsHour and HDNet World Report. Produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

NewsHour Abkhazia

HDNet World Report

Watch an award-winning report by the co-directors of the BIR on the war in Northern Uganda on PBS NewsHour and HDNet World Report:

NewsHour Uganda ("short" version, in HD)

HDNet World Report Uganda ("long" version, in HD) 

Watch the BIR's inaugural report on the Khmer Rouge Tribunals in Cambodia on PBS NewsHour:

NewsHour Cambodia

Watch the BIR's report on the Muslim, autonomous Republic of Tatarstan, part of the Russian Federation. Produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

PBS Foreign Exchange

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