Eric Campbell (reporter)

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Eric Campbell is a prominent Australian foreign correspondent. He works predominantly for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), and was the station's Moscow correspondent from 1996-1999^[1]. Campbell has covered many important and dangerous events in recent political history, writing a book detailing some of his most bizarre experiences as a foreign journalist, titled Absurdistan^[2].

Eric Campbell was working with cameraman Paul Moran in Northern Iraq during the Invasion of Iraq, when a suicide bomber blew his car up near where they were filming. Eric was maimed, but Paul did not survive the blast ^[3].