Fellows & Editors

Seema Mathur

Trip:: Fellows Fall 2010
Affiliation:: Freelance video
Country:: Liberia
Year:: 2010

Seema Mathur is a correspondent and founder of Global Voice Productions based in Austin, Texas. She recently reported on the needs of amputees in Haiti which aired on CNN and the ABC affiliate in Texas. Another GVP report was on women’s rights in Morocco. Other international experience during Mathur’s career includes coordinating coverage around the world for CNN’s International desk. During the war in Iraq she coordinated crews in Turkey. On the first anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks she reported from the US Embassy in Tanzania to reflect on the East African Al-Qaeda attacks. She has also reported on access to healthcare in Uganda, the state of orphaned children in India, and crime in Mexico. In the US, Mathur has covered health issues for which she has earned numerous awards including a National Edward R. Murrow, a Lone Star Emmy and Texas Associated Press Awards. She was a Kaiser Media in Health Fellow in 2006. Her US experience also includes more than a decade of covering local breaking news from crime to extreme weather.

Stories

Dismantling Liberia’s Weapons of War: Empowering Women and Rehabilitating Soldiers

by Mathur, Seema | June 27, 2011

Seema Mathur reported from Liberia as a 2010 IRP Fellow. Mathur was particularly interested in how individuals and nations reconcile themselves to atrocities committed during and in the wake of war. In this...
A Lifetime of Violence: Reflecting on Liberia’s Bloody Wars

by Mathur, Seema | December 20, 2010

IRP Fellow Seema Mathur tells a chilling tale of a former Liberian warlord, "General Butt Naked," who has found refuge in his religious conversion. Seema Mathur reported from Liberia on a grant...
Rape as a Weapon: Seema Mathur Reports on Sexual Violence in Liberia

by Mathur, Seema | December 20, 2010

Seema Mathur reported from Liberia on a grant by the International Reporting Project (IRP).