VICE News Walker held multiple leadership roles at VICE News, where he contributed to the network's award-winning journalism through field reporting, documentary film production, and editorial leadership from 2016 to 2024. Walker was one of the founding contributors for
Vice News Tonight serving first as Middle East Bureau Chief before going on to run VICE's politics team based in Washington DC. He led VICE's coverage of the
2020 United States presidential election, earning an Emmy for "Outstanding Newscast" at the
42nd News and Documentary Emmy Awards. In 2021, Walker was one of the first international journalists to arrive in Kabul after the Taliban took over, producing a documentary "Return of the Taliban" for
Vice that won "Best News Coverage: Long Form" at the
43rd News and Documentary Emmy Awards. Walker's reporting from the frontlines of the fight against
Islamic State in
Iraq and
Syria the Emmy for "Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a Newscast" at both the 38th and the
41st News and Documentary Emmy Awards.
Al Jazeera English Walker worked for Al Jazeera English in the
United States from 2008 to 2016. First based at Al Jazeera English's main US bureau in
Washington, D.C. and then in Al Jazeera America's
San Francisco Fault Lines show hub, he was a presenter on
Fault Lines, the channel's flagship news magazine about the Americas, and reported from across the continent. Before joining
Fault Lines, Walker was a foreign correspondent with a particular interest in
Haiti. Al Jazeera English was the only international TV news network to maintain a bureau in
Haiti after the
2010 earthquake and Sebastian arrived in
Port-au-Prince less than 24 hours after the earthquake hit to report on the damage. He then stayed on for a year and a half to document the progress of the relief effort. Walker was instrumental in discovering and documenting the
United Nations' role in the
2010–13 Haiti cholera outbreak, the largest such outbreak in recent history. Walker won a
DuPont-Columbia University Award in Broadcast Journalism for his work in Haiti. He continued covering Haiti at
Fault Lines, which was awarded a
News & Documentary Emmy Award for "Outstanding Investigative Journalism in a News Magazine" on 30 September 2014 for the episode "Haiti In A Time Of Cholera", which also earned a
Peabody Award. Walker has also repeatedly covered the
Occupy movement in the US and the
shooting of Michael Brown near St. Louis, Missouri, which precipitated
sustained protests. Prior to being based in the Americas, Walker worked in the
Middle East. He served at the channel's main broadcast centre in
Doha,
Qatar, where he helped to launch the channel.
Earlier career Walker has worked for the
Baghdad Bulletin, and various international news organisations, including
Reuters and
AFP, and has reported from a number of key countries around the
Middle East region, including:
Iraq,
Libya, and
Afghanistan. ==References==