Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates
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Willy Lowry is a Canadian journalist currently based in Arusha, Tanzania. His work from Tanzania appears in The New York Times, AJ+, CNN, BBC, Fusion and Mongabay. He started his career in Beirut, Lebanon writing for the The Daily Star and online for NOW Lebanon. He’s also worked in Israel and Palestine. Since 2011 he’s worked as a radio and television journalist for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in Montreal. He’s covered everything from provincial elections to the Lac Megantic train derailment, which killed 47 people. As a video journalist, he shoots, writes and edits his own stories.
Produced for Fusion Media Networks
I shot, edited and wrote this story with my partner Sophie Tremblay about a Tanzanian company using drones to catch poachers.
Produced for CBC
In May 2015, more than 100,000 Burundians fled the violence and political instability of their homeland. Most went south to a tiny fishing village in a remote corner of Tanzania. They spent nearly a month their with little shelter, food and no clean water. I reported on the terrible conditions in the village for CBC's flagship newscast The National.
Produced for CBC
This is story is shot and edited for CBC Montreal. I spent and night in Montreal's busiest emergency rooms and go to follow around the talented men and women who treat patients there.
Produced for CBC
This is a story I shot and edited for CBC NEWS Montreal. In the summer of 2014, there was spike in heroin overdoses in Montreal. I investigated why this was happening in this two part series.
Produced for AJPlus
I shot this story for AJ+ in Somaliland.
Produced for CBC
Live hit I did outside of a mall where a baby was rescued from a hot car, I shot some of the video as well.
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