Accomplished writer and documentary filmmaker Karen F. McCarthy has written about U.S. politics in the
Irish Examiner and was an embedded reporter in Iraq who traveled in Baghdad and the surrounding provinces, contributing in-depth news features and analysis about the war to the
Irish Times,
Sunday Tribune, and
News Tribune. Her four-part documentary series
Made in America about the “new Irish”–the 90s generation of 30-something Irish immigrants turned millionaires–was broadcast on Irelands leading network RTE and was nominated for an Irish Film and Television Award for Best Documentary Series. She worked at Al Jazeera English in Washington, D.C., where she wrote and produced a daily segment for the
Riz Khan show. You can find her online at
http://www.karenmccarthy.eu.
