BIO - STUART GREER
I'm the Multimedia Managing Editor for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) in Prague where I lead a team of talented video journalists who produce online and social media content. With 25 years of experience as a broadcast journalist myself, I've reported from more than 30 countries covering some of the biggest international news stories of the past two decades. From conflicts in Ukraine, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Georgia, to revolution in Egypt, natural disasters, and young migrants fleeing to Europe, I've had the privilege of telling the stories of ordinary people thrust into extraordinary situations.
In my most recent trip to Ukraine, I was in Odesa shooting and cutting reports about Russia's effort to destroy the local power grid. I saw the devastating impact the full-scale invasion has had on the Black Sea dolphin population. And I met families of missing Ukrainian sailors, following up on my 2020 documentary, Sea Change, about Ukraine's struggle to rebuild its navy after Russia's annexation of Crimea. Since joining RFE/RL in 2015, my videos have been seen by millions of viewers online and on social media. Some of the most popular include an investigation into forced marriages of Hindu girls in Pakistan, a detailed look at the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident, and Eva's Story that brings a Jewish girl's tragic Holocaust diary to new generations. Working with my Afghan colleagues at RFE/RL's Radio Azadi in 2020-21, I produced a series of stories about the failed peace talks and the impact of the Taliban take over on women lives and press freedom in Afghanistan. In 2020, I reported on the violent crackdown on antigovernment protesters in Belarus following a presidential vote widely seen as stolen. In collaboration with my colleagues at RFE/RL's Radio Svoboda, I told the stories of Belarusians forced into exile, including members of The Free Choir who use song to keep their nation's protest spirit alive. In Poland, I joined beefed up patrols along Russia's Kaliningrad border, interviewed former Polish President Lech Walesa, and reported on U.S. President Donald Trump's 2017 visit to Warsaw. I have written and edited six documentaries including the 2023 Bulgarian Blasts And Russia's War In Ukraine that investigates a string of mysterious explosions targeting Bulgaria's arms industry. In the 2022 documentary Healing Hate, I tell the remarkable story of American Kelvin Pierce who overcomes his father's neo-Nazi ideology by championing orphans in the South Caucasus nation of Georgia and reuniting his adopted daughters with their biological families. Who Killed Fereydoun Farrokhzad? investigates the murder of the dissident Iranian showman in Germany. And in the 2018 documentary Return To Halabja, I traveled to northern Iraq to investigate the legacy of chemical weapons on the local Kurdish population. Before joining RFE/RL, I lived and worked in London as European Bureau Chief and correspondent for Canada's Global TV News. I covered major events across the U.K., Europe, and around the world. In reported on several U.K. elections, British royalty, and the 2014 Scottish independence referendum. I also travelled to the Caucasus to report on Georgia's 2008 war with Russia, and the following year I was in Afghanistan's Kandahar Province reporting on NATO's ISAF mission. In 2014, I was in northern Iraq telling the story of people fleeing the advance of Islamic State (ISIS) militants. I have met the survivors and reported on several terrorist attacks -- from the 2005 London transit bombings and the 2011 Oslo massacre to Nairobi's 2013 Westgate Mall siege and the 2015 Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris.
It hasn't been all conflict reporting, however, and I've had the pleasure doing many fascinating and historical stories. From the artist who crafts microscopic sculptures and a James Bond car auction to the birthplace of the Titanic and the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, there is always something or someone intriguing to discover. It was an honour to tell the stories of World War II veterans on the beaches of Normandy for D-Day anniversaries and explore the maze of tunnels under the World War I Canadian battlefield at Vimy Ridge in France. I moved to London from Canada in 2003 to work as a freelance producer for Sky News, BBC Radio, and CBS News. I soon picked-up a camera and started reporting again for Canada's Global News as a "one-man-band" video-journalist, shooting and cutting my own stories. My social media video on the Forest Reclaiming Abkhaz Ghost Town was part of the RFE/RL submission that won the 2019 RTDNA's Edward R. Murrow Award for Multimedia in the Network Television category. My reporting from Cairo on the 2011 Egyptian Arab Spring revolution helped Global News earn the RTDNA award for continuing coverage. And my report on the arrest of Canadian fugitive Luka Magnotta in Berlin contributed to Global National News winning the 2013 Edward R. Murrow Award for overall excellence in network television. Born and raised in Montréal, Québec, Canada, I began my broadcasting career as a radio reporter for CHOM-FM covering the 1995 Québec independence referendum. A year later, I moved to Québec City to become CJAD radio's bureau chief at the provincial legislature, L'Assemblée Nationale. I established Global TV News' first bureau there in 1997 where I covered the separatist Parti Québecois government, two provincial elections, the 2001 Summit of the Americas riot, and hosted a weekly political panel. I'm a graduate of McGill University with a BA in Film & Communications but my real schooling came from volunteering at CKUT-FM Radio McGill. |
Technical Skills
CAMERA: Sony XDCAM PMW-200, Canon 550D
EDITING: Premier Pro, Adobe After Effects, Final Cut Pro 7, iMovie
EDITING: Premier Pro, Adobe After Effects, Final Cut Pro 7, iMovie
Languages
English
French / Français
Czech / Čeština - learning
French / Français
Czech / Čeština - learning