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Tracey Shelton is an Australian freelance journalist covering the MENA region since 2009.
Working as a writer, photographer and video producer she has covered conflict and the legacy of war in eight countries most notably Libya, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon. She previously worked as senior correspondent for GlobalPost but returned to freelancing in 2014.
Shelton was presented with a George Polk Honor by Carl Bernstein for a series of video reports from Aleppo, Syria in 2012. Bernstein remarked that Shelton had communicated "the human tragedy of the conflict in Syria in a way that is impossible to ignore or forget... giving voice and face to those most affected by the civil war."
She has received more than a dozen international accolades including a Peabody, an OPC, a POYi and an Edward Murrow Award. In 2015, she was a finalist for both Moving Images Photographer and International Journalist of the Year.