Biography
Tala Dowlatshahi is a US Representative of Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans Frontieres)-the Paris-based media watchdog organization. She is also a United Nations correspondent for Talk Radio News Service. Most recently, she launched a web tv program entitled: “Reporters Uncensored.” The programs chronicles stories across the globe that promote social change.
Tala is a New York based producer, reporter and filmmaker. Ms. Dowlatshahi has chronicled stories in Afghanistan, Colombia, Eritrea, Eastern Europe, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Tanzania, Turkey and Uganda. She has also been featured on CNN International, BBC World News, Al Jazeera, Voice of America, Reuters, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and in various humanitarian news programs. She is an associate member of the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Interactive EMMYs, New York Women in Film and Television and the Overseas Press Club of America. She holds a B.A. in mass communications from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.A. in international politics from New York University.