Zack Baddorf

Zack Baddorf is a freelance journalist based in Vancouver and has reported for FSRN from the US, Cambodia, Korea, and India. He also filed features and headlines regularly while living and working in Tokyo for two years. His journalism work with the US military took him around Asia, the Pacific, and the Middle East, including to Iraq and Kuwait.

He reported from aboard a Singaporean naval vessel in the Northern Arabian Gulf, in caves below an American military base in Japan, airborne over Australia, next to a cadaver in Nepal, at a WWII cemetery in the Philippines, about moose in Alaska, on a graduation of recruits at an Iraqi naval base, etc.

His video, radio, print, and photo work has won multiple civilian and military awards and been published worldwide by the AP, Yahoo! News, Navy Times, Army Times and other media sources.

He started freelancing for FSRN in Washington, D.C., while working for Talk Radio News Service. Baddorf speaks conversational Spanish, holds a bachelor's degree in communications and journalism from the University of Maryland University College and has traveled and worked in more than 40 countries.