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.
The AP member competition recognizes the best of the best among Maryland, Delaware, and D.C. stations in 24 categories. The Video Journalist/One Man Band Reporter category is for television entries only and recognizes excellence by a single individual, covering a single or multi-part news story aired within a regularly scheduled television newscast or distributed as a video link on an AP member organization’s website. The video journalist acts as a cross-discipline producer, serving as photojournalist, reporter, editor, talent, producer and web reporter for the story. A single story or composite may be entered. Entry is limited to 10 minutes.