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Adam B. Ellick is the Director and Executive Producer of Opinion Video at The New York Times. He has produced Pulitzer Prize and Emmy-winning video journalism.

Previously, he was a senior international video correspondent and print reporter at The Times covering human rights. He lived in Prague, Lithuania, Islamabad, Kabul, Russia, Jakarta, Geneva, and London. He has visited more than 90 countries.

In 2015, he co-produced a Pulitzer Prize-winning video about an Afghan woman who was burned to death by a mob. In 2009, he met Malala Yousafzai and brought her story to the world in a documentary called "Malala's Story." In 2016, he was the Executive Producer of an Emmy winning Opinion film about a 92-year-old Frenchman who forged documents to save those escaping persecution. And in 2018, he directed the feature documentary series Operation InfeKtion: Russian Disinformation from Cold War to Kanye, which was nominated for two Emmys. He also produced a short documentary with Nicholas Kristof "From North Korea, with Dread" as tensions between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un were dangerously escalating.

He has won three Overseas Press Club awards for his coverage of Pakistan and the Arab Spring, and for leading The Times's video coverage of the November 2015 Paris attacks. He has garnered three nominations for the Livingston Award, which honors journalists under the age of 35, and he has twice been nominated for an Emmy, including once for a video he produced about the lone survivor of an ISIS massacre.

In addition to reporting, he has worked on several digital evolutions at The Times, including as an author of The Times Innovation Report in 2014. He graduated from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, and Ithaca College, where he delivered the 2016 commencement speech.

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