Ron McCullagh

Before founding Insight News Television in 1991, Ron McCullagh worked as a reporter for the BBC for 10 years. He started his career as a local radio reporter for Radio Lancashire in 1980. From 1984 to 1989 he worked as a reporter for BBC Radio 4's 'Today Programme' covering national and international stories. He then worked for a year on BBC Television's 'Breakfast News' as a reporter and was one of the first journalists to do his own filming on a Hi8 camera. He is a freelance contributor to BBC Radio 4's 'From Our Own Correspondent' and has written for numerous publications including The Observer and The Sunday Telegraph.

Awards: In 1989 Ron McCullagh was nominated by the BBC for the Sony 'Radio Journalist of the Year' awards, in 1998 at the One World Broadcasting Trust Media Awards he won the UNICEF UK Award for the Advancement of Children's Rights for the report on child workers in Bangladesh which he reported, filmed, produced and edited and in 2000, the documentary Cry Freetown with Sorious Samura which he directed has so far won 14 major awards - including an Emmy and a BAFTA.