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Anton Foek

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Anton Foek
BornAnton Jie Sam Foek
(1941-09-03) September 3, 1941 (age 83)
Paramaribo, Suriname
💼 Occupation
R/TV producer and multi-media entrepreneur
Known forImprisoned in Chile

Anton Jie Sam Foek (born 1941) is a Dutch radio and television producer, and a freelance journalist.[1] Among others, he reported for CorpWatch,[2] The Washington Times,[3] BBC,[4] RNW,[5] BBC Human,[6][7] VPRO,[8] NTR,[9] NPS[10] Trouw,[11] and The Humanist.[12] His stories were published by prx[13] and De Ware Tijd.[14]

Childhood and studies[edit]

Anton Foek (Paramaribo, 3 September 1941) has Chinese, African, Portuguese-Jewish and German/Dutch ancestors. In 1954 he moved to the Netherlands, attending high schools in Utrecht and Hilversum.[15] He studied International law at the University of Amsterdam, after attending the Sorbonne where he studied European culture and International relations.

Media career[edit]

20th century[edit]

Foek started working as free-lance international correspondent for the Dutch broadcasters AVRO and NOS. In 1969 he was transferred to Rio de Janeiro. In 1971 Foek was commissioned to Santiago de Chile to report on the Allende years. Foek was imprisoned in September 1973 because upon arrival he had registered as AVRO correspondent. When Peter Schröder arrived in Chile in the days after the coup and tried to register as AVRO correspondent, he was told there already was one. Schröder denounced Foek which prompted Foek´s detention. Foek was released and travelled to the Netherlands on September 30th together with Koos Koster and four Dutch missionaries held prisoner.[16] Schröder later apologized for his careless behaviour.[17][18] Foek was also imprisoned in Mexico, Southern Sudan and Bolivia.

In the late 1980s early 1990s he developed q TV and video company Columbus Cine in Rio de Janeiro and Miami. In 1982, he started his own television production company Columbus Cine Ltda in Brazil. He produced a one-hour-a-week program aired on the Satellite Program Network in Tulsa Oklahoma, owned by Ed Taylor and Ted Turner.

Foek´s article Sweatshop Barbie: Exploitation of Third World Labour was included in the top-25 Censored Stories of 1998 by Project Censored.[19]

21st century[edit]

Foek produced a weekly TV show Brasil/2000 aired on SPN, a cable network run by Ed Taylor and later sold to CNN. At the same time he also worked at eyesonbrasil.com.[citation needed]

In 2013 Foek designed and build eyesonsuriname.com for Gillmore Hoefdraad, at the time Governor of the Central Bank and later Minister of Finance of Suriname.[citation needed]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ "Castilleja: Global Week 2008". Archived from the original on 2010-06-21. Retrieved 2011-01-05. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  2. ↑ "CorpWatch : Trademarking Coffee: Starbucks cuts Ethiopia deal". Archived from the original on 2010-12-16. Retrieved 2011-01-05. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  3. ↑ "Foreign economists urge 'global plan'". The Washington Times.
  4. ↑ "BBC World Service | Programmes | Outlook | on Outlook this week".
  5. ↑ Econoom Wil Suriname OntsluitenRNW Archived 2012-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ↑ "De Radiodocumentaire - Programma". Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2011-01-06. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help) "De Radiodocumentaire - Programma". Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2011-01-06. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help) "De Radiodocumentaire - Programma". Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2011-01-06. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help) "De Radiodocumentaire - Programma". Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2011-01-06. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help) "De Radiodocumentaire - Programma". Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2011-01-06. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  7. ↑ "BBC World Service | Programmes | Outlook | Anton Foek visits Paradise for Outlook".
  8. ↑ "Home".
  9. ↑ "NTR | Dichtbij Nederland - 01 JULI: JACQUELINA. SLAVIN VAN PLANTAGE DRIESVELD". Archived from the original on 2011-07-24. Retrieved 2011-01-06. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  10. ↑ "NPS - ZORG EN HOOP: Majoie Hajary". Archived from the original on 2011-07-21. Retrieved 2011-01-06. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  11. ↑ "Van plaggenhut naar plantage in Suriname - Trouw". Archived from the original on 2010-11-26. Retrieved 2011-01-06. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  12. ↑ "Contents of THE HUMANIST for July/August 1996". Archived from the original on 2010-11-16. Retrieved 2011-01-06. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  13. ↑ "PRX".
  14. ↑ "Zoek".
  15. ↑ "Zuid-Amerika, de Kerk en de armoe". Het Parool. 1970-01-24. Retrieved 2023-12-12.
  16. ↑ "Chili geeft Nederlanders de vrijheid". Algemeen Dagblad. 1973-10-02. Retrieved 2023-12-15.
  17. ↑ "AVRO: Schroder was onzorgvuldig". Het Parool. 1973-10-27. Retrieved 2023-12-11.
  18. ↑ "Ruzie Nederlandse journalisten eindigt in Chileense cel". Tubantia. 1973-09-27. Retrieved 2023-12-11.
  19. ↑ Phillips, Peter; Censored, Project (1998-04-07). Censored 1998: The Year's Top 25 Censored Stories. Seven Stories Press. ISBN 978-1-888363-64-7. Search this book on

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