Social & Cultural

PACO ADDICTS IN THE SLUMS OF BUENOS AIRES – THE GUARDIAN

The piece I co-authored with The Guardian Journalist Annie Kelly showing some of the rarest footage I have ever filmed of kids smoking paco in one of Argentina’s most renowned slum villa’s.

The piece lead world news on The Guardian and The Observer websites

ARGENTINA VELATROPA ECO VILLAGE – APTN

My video news report on Buenos Aires’s hidden eco-village; Velatropa.  Story is currently being broadcast through the Associated Press Television’s features bulletin and has already gone out on several channels around the world, including this link to its transmission on Venezuelan TELESUR. Will keep you updated over the next few weeks on its continued broadcasts and print publications.

AFRICAN MIGRATION IN ARGENTINA

ARGENTINA MANURE – APTN

My video story on sustainable farming in Argentina. Filming in one of the worlds most energy efficient pig farms just outside Buenos Aires where they use livestock manure to create bio-gas to self power.  Story was lead story on APTN’s features bulletin as part of a package of features they are doing from around the world in the build up to the Copenhagen climate change conference. This link shows broadcast of the story on Venezuelan National channel TELESUR

CUMBIA DIGITAL – APTN

My piece on Cumbia Digital which was Saturday’s lead story on APTN’s features bulletin.  Will keep you updated over the next few weeks on its broadcasts and print publications.

PANAMA’S KUNA INDIANS – APTN

Broadcast by the Spanish language news agency Observador Global of my piece for AP about one of Latin Americas most secluded indigenous groups; the Kuna Indians.

While the indigenous community have maintained an exceptionally strong culture and sovereignty, increasingly the attractions of their idyllic homeland are presenting a lure for tourists and challenging the preservation of a culture frozen in time.

ARGENTINA ADOPT A FROG – APTN

The National Geographic Channel’s broadcast of my news report for the APTN reporting on how an Argentine official in the small interior city of San Luis is suggesting people adopt mosquito-munching frogs—not chemicals—as a solution to an outbreak of the disease dengue fever, which is spread by the insects. Also went out in print on USA Today and a variety of other international broadcast, print and web outlets…..

ARGENTINA’S NO TO RELIGION – RTE World Report

Irish national broadcaster RTE Radio 1’s weekly look at events making headlines from around the World. My dispatch from Buenos Aires reports on how a movement spearheaded by a group of NGO’s and human rights organisations has sparked debate in Argentina by calling on people to officially renounce their religious affiliation

BEEFING WITH ARGENTINE BEEF

An unvoiced news report by Paul Byrne for the international news agency the Associated Press Television News’s daily features and lifestyles bulletin, ‘Horizons’ reporting on reporting on how world food prices and internal political maneuverings are putting in doubt future stocks of the great Argentina steak.

LA PRESIDENTA – RTE’s World Report

Irish national broadcaster RTE Radio 1’s weekly look at events making headlines from around the World. My dispatch from Buenos Aires reports on how an ongoing protest by the country’s Agricultural sector is ebbing away at the support base of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner