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Experience news like never before. Award-winning HDNet World Report is redefining the way we look at our world. Provocative, sometimes controversial and always relevant, World Report tells the stories of our time in-depth, with attitude and independence.

From the streets of Baghdad to the alleys of India, small town America to villages in Vietnam, war zones to halls of power, World Report is there. You won't see stories like these anywhere else.

World Report premieres every Tuesday on HDNet, and is the only program of its kind to be shown entirely in stunning, 1080i high-definition.

 

Paul Beban

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Paul Beban has been a correspondent for HDNet's World Report since May 2007.

Beban has covered stories ranging from the war against Islamic radicals in the Philippines to the split in the Episcopal Church. His reporting has been recognized with Emmy and National Headliner Awards.

Prior to joining HDNet, Beban was a producer and writer for ABC News, where he worked for World News Tonight and Good Morning America.

Beban has also worked for the New York Times and CNN. He graduated from Yale University and holds a masters from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. He lives in New York with his wife and two children.

 

Greg Dobbs

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Correspondent Greg Dobbs has been with World Report since 2004, and has produced and reported segments about Agent Orange in Vietnam, terrorism in Lebanon, politics in Russia, the post-Apartheid era in South Africa, wealth in Dubai, autocracy in Venezuela, dirty water in Indonesia, post-war recovery in Liberia, cocaine in Bolivia, PTSD in the U.S. military, among many others. He has also reported extensively from Israel and the Palestinian territories.

Previously, Dobbs worked for ABC News for 23 years, starting in Chicago as an editor for ABC Radio's Paul Harvey. Eventually becoming a correspondent, Dobbs served in postings in bureaus around the country and world, including Chicago, London, Paris, and Denver. Dobbs covered major domestic and foreign stories, including: the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the first Gulf War, the revolution and then the occupation of the US embassy in Iran; the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; the civil war in and the ejection of the PLO from Beirut; the Iran-Iraq war; the civil war and deaths of IRA hunger-strikers in Northern Ireland.

At ABC, Dobbs won two national Emmy awards, the first for "Best Spot News Coverage on a Network" for coverage of a terrible earthquake in Italy in 1980, the other for "Best Network Documentary" in 1989 for a documentary on the environmental poisoning of America; he also received a "Distinguished Service Award" from the Society of Professional Journalists. Dobbs also won numerous awards for his work as a talk-radio host and host of a public television program on PBS in Denver.

Dobbs is the author of two books: Life in the Wrong Lane, and a university level textbook, Better Broadcast Writing, Better Broadcast News, and taught at University of Colorado's School of Journalism and Mass Communications; in 2001 he was named "Adjunct Professor of the Year."

A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, Dobbs earned a masters at Northwestern University. He is married with two grown sons, and lives in Evergreen, CO.

 

Leslie Boghosian

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Leslie Boghosian has been contributing to World Report since October 2006. Topics she has covered for World Report include environmental technology in Europe and the U.S., food security in Africa, juvenile justice in the U.S.

Prior to joining the World Report team, Boghosian was one of the original on-air personalities at the New York based YES Network, starting at its inception in March of 2002. She was the lead reporter for New Jersey Nets telecasts and was the New York Giants beat reporter. In 2004 Boghosian received a New York Emmy Award for writing and directing Harlem Champions: Road to Williamsport, documenting the journey of the 2002 Harlem Little League team.

Boghosian also worked at ESPN as a feature/investigative producer. In 1998 she was nominated for a National Emmy Award in Sports Journalism for her exclusive feature on former NHL player Sheldon Kennedy, who suffered sexual abuse by a junior hockey coach. In 1999, Boghosian joined CNN as a producer/reporter in their sports department and contributor for their web site, and in 2000 she was awarded the National Headliner Award for best sports reporting.

Boghosian graduated from Temple University where she double-majored in rhetoric/communications and political science. She currently lives in New York City.

 

Michael Davie

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Armed with a global perspective and a burning desire to tell the difficult stories unfolding on the world stage, Michael Davie began contributing to World Report in 2007; since then has reported ground-breaking stories from around the world -- about the rise of terrorism in Morocco, the massive pollution problems in La Oroya, Peru, the drought in his native Australia, the persecution of homosexuals in post-Saddam Iraq, to name a few.

For his work as lead correspondent on the National Geographic film Liberia: American Dream, Davie won the prestigious Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, TV's equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize.

In 2008 Davie produced and directed "Gorilla Murders," a one-hour special for National Geographic Television which chronicled the destruction of wildlife as a result of civil war in the Congo. The film is currently nominated for four Emmy awards.

Davie recently completed directing and producing a feature-documentary called The Choir, about music in the prisons of South Africa. It is playing in festivals and theaters worldwide.

For this work, Davie has won numerous awards including an Edward R. Murrow Award, an Emmy and a New York Film Festival Gold Medal.

 

Jennifer London

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Jennifer London is an award-winning broadcast journalist who joined the World Report team as a freelance correspondent in 2008. Since then, she has reported on topics ranging from politics to religious movements to social entrepreneurship in Africa. Previously London served as a national correspondent for NBC Network News and MSNBC, covering breaking news and feature stories. Her work has appeared on NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, MSNBC, Dateline, CNBC and MSNBC.com. Based in NBC's Burbank Bureau, London also reported from the network's bureaus in London, New York, New Orleans, and Chicago.

London reported from Hurricanes Katrina and Dennis, the California wildfires, the Pacific Northwest floods, the Utah mine disaster and the national immigration debate. She also covered the Scott Peterson, Kobe Bryant and Michael Jackson trials.

Prior to NBC, London worked in local and cable news in San Francisco and San Diego, as a reporter, producer, writer and investigative researcher. Her investigative storytelling about computer spy software earned London an Emmy Award for reporting and producing. She is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists and AFTRA.

 

Carol McKinley

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Carol McKinley has been a network correspondent for twelve years. Since joining HDNet as a freelance reporter/producer, she has reported on the rash of murders by returning veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, child preachers, and border issues.

Previously, she was a regional correspondent for Fox News Channel in their Denver Bureau. While at Fox, McKinley's assignments included Iraq War, Hurricane Katrina, Columbine, the Oklahoma City Bombing, JonBenet Ramsey, and Mormon splinter groups / polygamists.

Prior to joining Fox News Channel, McKinley was a featured contributor covering the Ramsey murder investigation for NBC's Today and Dateline, ABC's Good Morning America, CNN's CNN & Company and CNBC's Rivera Live.

McKinley is a recipient of an Edward R. Murrow Award, and numerous Associated Press, Radio and TV News Directors Association awards for everything from investigative to spot news reporting.

A Magna Cum Laude graduate of the University of Colorado, McKinley was a top student-athlete as a pentathlete and captain of the track team. She now lives in Golden, CO, with her husband, and is the mother of 4 grown children.