Eric Campbell is a prominent Australian foreign correspondent, who began his career as a journalist at The Sydney Morning Herald.
[1] His assignments have included reporting the wars in Chechnya, Afghanistan and the Balkans, tracking polar bears in the Arctic, filming at secret military bases in Central Russia and travelling by sled with nomadic reindeer herders in Siberia.
From 1987 to 1988, Campbell co-presented The Investigators program for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC),[2] before a two year stint at the Nine Network reporting for A Current Affair.
He was the ABC's Moscow correspondent from 1996 to 1999, covering the tumultuous changes in the former Soviet Union in an area that spread from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific.
[3] Campbell has covered many important and dangerous events in recent political history, writing a book detailing some of his most bizarre experiences as a foreign journalist, titled Absurdistan.