Declan Hill - Freelance Journalist

Declan Hill is an investigative journalist, documentary maker and television news anchor. He specializes in reporting on organized crime and international issues. In the last few years he has completed documentaries on the killing of the head of the Canadian mafia, blood feuds in Kosovo and ethnic cleansing in Iraq. He has also made documentaries in Kurdistan, Bolivia, India, Mexico, and Turkey.

Declan has worked for CBC Radio ("IDEAS", "Tapestry", "Dispatches", "The Current", "Iraq Unit") CBC Television ("the fifth estate", "Disclosure", "Newsworld" and "Newsworld International"): BBC Radio World Service and BBC Radio 4: as well as various new media outlets. Two of the documentaries that he researched were shown on "PBS Frontline". Currently, Declan is a Chevening Scholar at Green College, University of Oxford and also works as a consultant with Johann Lambsdorff and the Anti Corruption Training & Consulting group (ACTC)

“The documentary had all the Declan hall-marks; crisp, descriptive writing; persistence, ingenuity and bravery in pursuing interviews in the most difficult locations; a real story, and a vivid message of outrageous social injustice…”

Susan Mahoney, CBC Radio producer

Awards

2007	Winner of the 2007 Canadian Association of Journalists best investigative radio documentary.
2003	Amnesty International (Canada) best Human Rights Documentary for “So Many Reasons to Die”: about Kurdish women being killed for their family’s “honour”. (See photos and link below).
2001	Part of the fifth estate team that won the Michener Award for best public service journalism in Canada: “A Marketable Monster”
1999	Part of the fifth estate team that won the Canadian Association of Journalists award for best television journalism: “Legacy of Pain”
1997	Part of the fifth estate team that won the “Monte Carlo Silver Nymph”: “Prix d’Italia”: DuPont Columbia Gold Baton Investigative Award: Hot Docs: CAJ award for “Murder, Money, Mexico”.