Jason Motlagh

Jason Motlagh is an award-winning writer, photographer, and filmmaker. Formerly Time magazine’s Kabul correspondent, he has reported from more than forty countries and is a regular contributor to the Washington Post, Economist, and VQR. In 2010, he won the National Magazine Award for Digital News Reporting for “Sixty Hours of Terror,” a four-part series in VQR on the Mumbai terror attacks. He has since founded Blackbeard Films, an Oakland, California-based company that produces news documentaries for the Al Jazeera English and America networks.

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REPORTING / Spring 2015

Ice Cream, Socialized

By Jason Motlagh , Photography by Lisette Poole

Fidel Castro rejected his northern neighbors. But for a lifelong dairy lover who’d grown up on a farm in the Oriente province, ice cream proved harder to resist.

REPORTING / Spring 2014

The Ghosts of Rana Plaza

By Jason Motlagh

In Bangladesh, one year after the worst accident in the history of the garment industry, recovery remains a fragile process, justice seems elusive, and reform has a long way to go.

REPORTING / Winter 2013

Falling for the Stars

By Jason Motlagh

Donaldson is a professional stuntman, the guy who doubles for brand-name stars too valuable to a production to do the real stunts, despite what many of them like to claim. The car hit. The high fall. The naked burn. With the right team and...