Nationality British | Name Benjamin Zand | |
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Occupation Reporter and documentary maker Notable credit(s) BBC News, BBC World News, BBC Travel Show Alma mater Edinburgh Napier University Profiles | ||
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Benjamin 'Ben' Zand is a British-Iranian journalist and filmmaker for the BBC from Liverpool, England. He makes and reports on feature videos and documentaries for BBC TV, online and social media and is the head of the BBC's mobile bureau, BBC Pop Up.
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- Career
- Awards
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Career
During university Zand started a travel website and began video production. His first documentary was called Tehrangeles, featuring Iranians living in Los Angeles. After finishing his studies, he worked with production companies and eventually became a producer at the BBC World Service working on numerous radio programmes, including BBC World Have Your Say. After about a year, he moved on to BBC World News, as a producer and social media manager of BBC Facebook pages.
Zand then became a video journalist and reporter for BBC News, also becoming part of the BBC's video innovation lab. During this time, he covered stories from far-right nationalism to Native Americans in South Dakota. He helped start up BBC Trending and BBC Newsbeat's video offering, and also worked for the BBC Travel Show. Towards the end of 2014, he started the BBC's "mobile-bureau" called BBC Pop Up with a BBC colleague. Here, he travelled across the US crowd-sourcing story ideas and making documentaries for BBC World News and BBC News.
Since October 2016, he has been the Editor of BBC Pop Up and as a presenter and filmmaker for different departments across the BBC making current affairs documentaries, including BBC Two, BBC Three and Panorama.
Awards
Zand was named Young Talent of the Year at the 2016 Royal Television Society Journalism Awards. “The judges liked everything about Benjamin, the stories he’d found, the way he filmed them — normally on his own — and the way he told them. They found him original, fresh, provocative, versatile, and, of course, creative."