Eleanor Bell Fox is an Emmy-nominated and highly awarded video journalist, filmmaker, and multimedia producer with more than 10 years experience producing innovative storytelling for digital and broadcast newsrooms. Her work focuses on communicating investigative journalism through rich, visual media and has appeared on CNBC, NPR, Time.com, Slate, Al Jazeera America, The Seattle Times, among others.
Bell Fox’s multimedia reportage, on prison financial services in particular, has prompted swift reforms and earned multiple honors. In 2014, Bell Fox was a Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting grantee and completed the interactive web documentary ‘Fatal Extraction’ which exposed Australian mining's deadly footprint in Africa. The work received an Overseas Press Club award and was an Emmy, Loeb, Walkley, and EPPY finalist.
A New Zealander, Bell Fox worked for several years at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), where in 2011, her investigative multimedia report into urban social disadvantage was awarded Australia’s highest journalism honor, the Walkley Award.
Specialties
Field Producing
Reporting
Multimedia
Cinematography
Documentary Production
Video Editing
VIDEO
Raised hands: California's search for education equity
Director, field/producer, cinematographer, script-writer, editor, and co-reporter
The digital divide: why poor people don't have access to the internet economy
Co-reporter, director, field/producer, script-writer, cinematographer and editor
The panama papers: Victims of offshore
Contributing producer and voice over
Why nobody knows what's going in your food
Project manager, story board/ script-writer, supervising producer
Time bomb: a rare cancer shatters a worker's life
Director, field/co-producer, script-writer, lead cinematographer, co-editor
Time is money: who's making a buck off prisoners' families?
Director, field-producer, co-reporter, cinematographer, script-writer, editor
Mudslinging all the way to the Whitehouse
Director, field/producer, script-writer, cinematographer, editor, graphics artist
Texas town worried about toxic fracking waste
Director, field/producer, script-writer, cinematographer, editor, graphics artist
Black history and heritage bulldozed by gas boom
Director, field/producer, script-writer, cinematographer, editor
Fatal extraction: meet the journalists
Co-reporter Will Fitzgibbon and Eleanor Bell Fox on the Emmy-nominated Fatal Extraction
Bush super PAC the biggest loser in ad wars
Director, field/producer, script-writer, cinematographer, editor, graphics artist
AIR POLLUTION CHOKES THE SOUTH END
Supervising producer
INTERACTIVE & MULTIMEDIA
Fatal extraction: Australian mining in Africa
Project coordinator, co-reporter, director, field/producer, cinematographer, photographer, writer, editor
triple j road trip relay: travel australia through the sights and experiences captured by our industrious road-trippers
Project manager, curator, and editorial lead
Beating the odds - children at risk from social exclusion and harm
Lead reporter, director, field/producer, cinematographer, editor and writer
FAR FROM FREEDOM - investigation into Iraqi refugees living in Jordan
Multimedia producer and script editor
35 deaths linked to "school for killers"
Researcher, video producer
CASTAWAY KIDS - UNACCOMPANIED MINORS IN AUSTRALIAN DETENTION
Project coordinator, co-reporter, producer, researcher
Gene wars: the race own our food
Lead reporter, multimedia editor, cinematographer, editor
Bullying claims hit Australia Post
Lead reporter, multimedia editor, producer
RADIO
Eleanor has worked with the following media partners:
AWARDS
Broadband Inequality 2016-17
- Society of Business Editors and Writers, Technology reporting
Fatal Extraction: Australian Mining in Africa - 2015-16
- News & Documentary Emmy Awards, New Approaches Documentary - Finalist
- Overseas Press Club (OPC) Awards, Best News Media Presentation
- Walkley Awards, All Media Multimedia Storytelling - Finalist
- Editor & Publisher EPPY Awards, Best Innovation Project with under 1 million unique monthly visitors
- DIG Awards, Best Data and Cross-Media Reporting
- Gerald Loeb Awards, Images/Graphics/Interactives Category - Finalist
Time is Money: Who's Making a Buck Off Prisoners' Families? & Profiting from Prisoners - 2014-15
- Online News Association Online Journalism Awards, Al Neuharth Award in Investigative Journalism Award, Small
- Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi award for Digital Video
- White House Correspondents Association Edgar A. Poe Award - Honorable Mention
- Society of Business Editors and Writers Digital Feature Award - Finalist
- Accolade Global Film Competition Awards, Award of Excellence: Special Purpose Internet Productions
- Accolade Global Film Competition Awards, Award of Merit: Documentary Short
- Excellence in Financial Journalism Awards, Best TV or Online Video News Story
- American Bar Association Silver Gavel Awards, Other Media - Finalist
- Gerald Loeb Awards, Investigative category - Finalist
The Center for Public Integrity's website: www.publicintegrity.org - Ongoing
- Online News Association Online Journalism Awards, General Excellence in Online Journalism - Small
- Editor & Publisher EPPY Awards, Best News Website with under 1 million unique monthly visitors
Beating the Odds - 2011-12
- Walkley Award for Excellence in Journalism, Digital (Australia)
- UN Media Peace Prize, Best Online (Australia)
Gene Wars: The Race to Own our Food - 2011-12
- UN Media Peace Prize, Environmental Reporting - Finalist