Tala is a New York based producer, reporter and filmmaker. She currently covers the United Nations for Talk Radio News Service. Since 2002, Dowlatshahi has served as a United States representative for Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans Frontieres)— the Paris-based media watchdog organization. Tala has chronicled stories in Afghanistan, Colombia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Eastern Europe, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Rwanda, Tanzania, Turkey, South Africa and Uganda. She has also been featured on CNN International, BBC World News, Al Jazeera, Voice of America, Reuters, and in various humanitarian news programs. She is an associate member of the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Interactive EMMYs, Foreign Policy Association, New York Women in Film and Television and the Overseas Press Club of America. She is Creator of the new global social change web tv program Reporters Uncensored.