12 Facts About Kevin Sites

In 2009, Kevin Sites was one of four cast members of the reality television series Expedition Africa on the History channel.

Kevin Sites spent one year traveling to all the major war zones in the world, reporting for his website "Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone", unique at the time for its multi-media mix of text, video and still images in its storytelling.

Kevin Sites' assignments have brought him to nearly every region of the world, including Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, South America, and Eastern Europe.

Kevin Sites grew up in Ohio and currently lives in Hong Kong.

Kevin Sites is a professor at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre of the University of Hong Kong teaching bachelor and masters programmes.

Kevin Sites received both adulation and hate mail for taping the video.

Kevin Sites was recently selected as a 2010 Nieman Fellow, a prestigious journalism fellowship at Harvard University.

In September 2008, Kevin Sites was awarded Manchester College's 2008 Innovator of the Year Award.

Kevin Sites was honored with the Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism for the mosque video and was additionally nominated for the national Emmy Award.

Kevin Sites was honored by Wired magazine, receiving the magazine's RAVE Award for his popular blog.

Kevin Sites was awarded the Daniel Pearl Award, for courage and integrity in journalism, by the Los Angeles Press Club in 2006.

Kevin Sites won the Edward R Murrow Award in 1999 for his contributions to NBC's coverage of the war in Kosovo.