Op-Docs and Opinion Video, The New York Times
Adam B. Ellick is the director and executive producer of Op-Docs and Opinion Video at The New York Times. He has produced Pulitzer Prize, Oscar, and Emmy-winning video journalism and films. Previously, he was a senior international video correspondent and print reporter at The Times covering human rights. He has reported from Iran, North Korea, Afghanistan, Angola, Myanmar, Russia, Venezuela, Egypt, South Sudan, and dozens of other countries.
In 2015, he co-produced a Pulitzer Prize-winning video about an Afghan woman who was burned to death by a mob. In 2009, he met Malala Yousafzai and brought her story to the world in a documentary called Malala’s Story. In 2016, he was the executive producer of an Emmy-winning Opinion film about a 92-year-old Frenchman who forged documents to save those escaping persecution. And in 2018, he directed the feature documentary series Operation InfeKtion: Russian Disinformation from Cold War to Kanye. He also produced a short documentary with Nicholas Kristof, From North Korea, with Dread, as tensions between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un were dangerously escalating. Opinion Video, which he founded in 2018, won four Emmy awards in 2021–2022. In 2022, he was the executive producer of The Queen of Basketball, a documentary that earned The Times its first Academy Award.
He has won three Overseas Press Club awards for his coverage of Pakistan and the Arab Spring, and for leading The Times’s video coverage of the November 2015 Paris attacks. He has garnered three nominations for the Livingston Award, which honors journalists under the age of 35.
In addition to reporting, he has worked on several digital evolutions at The Times, including as an author of The Times Innovation Report in 2014.
