Paul Salopek

PAUL SALOPEK

Reporting from Darfur in 2006, reporter Paul Salopek was imprisoned for five weeks. He endured beatings and brutal jail conditions but declined offers of freedom until he knew his Chadian driver and Sudanese translator would also be freed. A journalist who has reported from more than 50 countries in the developing world and more than 20 conflict zones, Salopek received the 2009 Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award for courageous journalism from Colby College on Sunday, Oct. 18.

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