VOA reporter wins award for best video journalist
VOA reporter Kane Farabaugh won the 2016 Chesapeake Associated Press Broadcasters Association award for Best Video Journalist/One Man Band Reporter. Farabaugh is the Midwest Correspondent for Voice of America, where since 2008 he has established Voice of America’s presence in the heartland of America.
Farabaugh, who has worked at VOA since 2008, is a television and radio news journalist, documentary producer and filmmaker, writer, digital content provider, and is a proficient “one-man-band” videographer. He has reported from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and has traveled to more than 50 countries covering a wide range of important news events from riots in Ferguson, Missouri, to global warming in the Arctic, to Muslim extremism in Pakistan.