Document Post-Conflict Journalism Masterclass with Marc Ellison

Child Soldiers And Life After The Lord’s Resistance Army: A Post-Conflict Journalism Masterclass with Journalist Marc Ellison

Marc Ellison is an award-winning data- and photojournalist based in Glasgow, Scotland. He has produced multimedia work from Canada, Mali, South Sudan, Uganda, and the United Kingdom.

Marc’s masterclass at Document 12 will cover the ins and outs of “parachute journalism” and working with sensitive subjects, including case studies of his time in Uganda and the ethical, cultural and logistical challenges of working with women who have survived trauma.

Marc won a Canadian Association of Journalists award for his work with female Ugandan child soldiers, the inaugural Canadian Open Data Innovation Award for his ‘Lobby Watch’ series in the Toronto Star, an IDRC Award for International Journalism, the Martin Newland Award for Print Reporting, and won the World Bank’s 2013 Picture Inequality photo competition. In 2014, he was also awarded a $2,500 hostile environment training bursary by the Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma.

He has covered a broad range of topics, including: the censorship of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s Facebook page; the reintegration of female child soldiers in Uganda; bed bugs in social housing; refugees in South Sudan; missing First Nations women in Canada; reality radio shows in Mali; gay rights; crisis mapping; mining; child soldiers living in Canada; African cyber-crime; crime; municipal and federal elections; FASD in First Nations communities; education in Indian schools, and even burlesque dancing.