Campbell, Eric

Eric Campbell began his life as a journalist at The Sydney Morning Herald. A series of ill-advised career changes saw him languish in the backwaters of television, covering travel stories for a few years, but he fought his way out, eventually landing a job as the ABC?s Moscow correspondent in 1996. He spent the next seven years covering the former Soviet Union, Central Asia, the Balkans and China. He has reported for The 7.30 Report, Lateline and Foreign Correspondent. In 1999 Eric won a New York Television festival award for environmental reporting and was a finalist in the Australian Walkley Awards for his coverage of the war and humanitarian crisis...;