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Heather Abbott, Canada, is a producer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), first in its radio division, and most recently as a Senior News and Documentary producer for CBC Television in London.

Heather Abbott, Canada

Abbott has reported extensively on political and economic issues, filing from Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In recent years she has covered the fight between Ottawa and a Canadian oil company over its role in the civil war in Sudan; the election fraud showdown in Ukraine; the surge in organized crime in the Balkans, as well as the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In 2001, she won a Gemini Award for Best Magazine Segment for her documentary In the Company of Warlords, the story of a young general caught between feuds in Northern Afghanistan. She won another Gemini in 2002 for news coverage of the Iraq war. In 1997, she won both a Mitchner Award, an annual juried prize for public service journalism in Canada, and a John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University.

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