Brian Calvert

Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Website: http://www.calvertink.com

Professional Experience

Brian Calvert is a security correspondent and travel writer based in Southeast Asia. He has lived in Cambodia and China, reported from Afghanistan and Sri Lanka, and has, with his prior military service and history of military reporting, sharp insights into the impact of war.

Expertise

Copy Editor
4 Years
Reporter
11 Years
Writer
11 Years

Specialty

International
10 Years
Travel
10 Years
War & Conflicts
10 Years

Industries


Magazine - Large Consumer/National magazines
4 Years
Association publication
1 Year
Newspaper - Local/Regional
5 Years

Total Media Industry Experience

11 Years

Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

Voice of America (10+), World Politics Review (3-5), Foreign Policy Passport (1-2), Weekend America (1-2), Esquire (1-2)

Corporate Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

Wall Street Journal Asia (1-2), The National, Abu Dhabi (1-2)

Other Work History

Daily reporter at newspaper in Cambodia (4 years). Magazine writer for monthly in China (1.5 years).

Technical Skills

Radio producing/editing (Dalet, Audacity), digital photography, multimedia (Soundslides)

Foreign Language Skills

Survival Khmer, Vietnamese, Chinese.

Computer Skills

Word, Quark XPress, OS , Dalet, Audacity, Final Cut Pro

Equipment

iBook, Nikon D2H, audio field kit

Showcase

Reportage

Cease Fire: Tourism, Not Terrorism, in Afghanistan's Hindu Kush
(Climbing Magazine 10/1/2006)
The story of demobilized Afghan freedom fighters who wished to be mountain guides.
Experts: Cambodia Fertile Ground for Tamil Tigers
(Voice of America Khmer 10/1/2007)
A closer look at the changing operations of Sri Lanka's separatists in Cambodia.
The Year Before Zero
(Voice of America Khmer 7/24/2007)
A six-part series examining the failed diplomatic efforts of the US mission in Cambodia in the year prior to its fall to the Khmer Rouge.
Sri Lanka's Information War, Part III
(World Politics Review 12/25/2008)
Third in a series analyzing the battle for Sri Lanka's information environment.
Sri Lanka's Information War, Part I
(World Politics Review 12/10/2008)
First in a series analyzing the battle for Sri Lanka's information environment.
Islam's Orphans
(The National 12/26/2008)
A look at how Cambodia’s Cham Muslims, who lived in obscurity for centuries and were nearly wiped out by the Khmer Rouge, are benefitting from renewed interest by Gulf states, the US and militant Islamists.
Sri Lanka's Information War, Part II
(World Politics Review 12/18/2008)
Second in a series analyzing the battle for Sri Lanka's information environment.
October Trial Set for US Leader of Freedom Fighters
(Voice of America Khmer 7/17/2007)
The president of the Cambodian Freedom Fighters, accused of inciting a coup in November 2000, prepares for a US federal court date.
Justice for the Victims of the Khmer Rouge?
(Foreign Policy Passport 9/19/2007)
A guest blog on the September arrest of former Khmer Rouge commander Nuon Chea in Cambodia.
Afghans tell troops: 'No security, no help'
(Christian Science Monitor 6/28/2006)
A dispatch from a remote province on the Afghan-Pakistan border, highlighting the difficulties US soldiers were facing as they tried to exert control in the area.

Essay

Unembedded
(New York Times Magazine 8/20/2006)
How being embedded with my stepfather in Afghanistan smoothed a prickly relationship.
Gas Money
(grist.org 10/30/2006)
How a Wyoming gas boom has spurred sportsmen and conservationists to work together.

Travel

Wild Weekend: Cambodia's Cardamom Mountains Get Their First Eco-Resort
(Wall Street Journal Asia 1/16/2009)
The Rainbow Lodge is run by Janet Newman, a 41-year-old barrister from Birmingham, England, who had tired of a career dealing with violence and abuse and decided to put her energies to another use.
Frommer's Southeast Asia, 5th Edition
(Wiley 6/1/2007)
Authored chapters on destinations in Vietnam and Cambodia.

Radio

Roughneck, Wyoming
(Weekend America 9/18/2007)
How Wyoming's gas field workers blow off steam.