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This is Mariana Van Zeller. Never heard of her? Really?!

If you haven’t caught any of my previous profiles of “people in my social graph” — here, here, here, or here – they’ll supply a better idea about what I’m about to say. Incidentally, if you haven’t caught any of her excellent Vanguard episodes, best go on over there now as well and catch a few of those. Familiarize yourself with the journalistic excellence of Van Zeller and colleagues “Big” Adam Yamaguchi and Christof Putzel as they trot around the globe. They are all too extraordinary for words.

I was reminded of Mariana’s intrepid reporting last night as I got to catching up on videos. “Check back with Current.com” was scribbled on my nightly list, but it’s a list that occasionally gets overlooked — especially on a Sunday — so I’m glad I didn’t double-clutch. Seeing her doing her thing once again brought back a whole flush of memories, the first of which I’d had when stumbling across her channel back when I was still living in Prague.

So the decision was easily made: Mariana would become today’s “People in my social graph” entry

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I’m delighted to report that Vanguard over at former VPOTUS Al Gore’s Current.com is finally back on track following a long and completely understandable production hiatus. Things got off to an uncharacteristically shaky start this year, what with Laura Ling and Euna Lee’s monumental repatriation Stateside from Bam Bam’s “Paradise On Earth,” and whipping the Vanguard A-team back into fighting shape for 2010 turned out initially to be something of a challenge. Thankfully, things are happily im ordnung.

I caught up last night with a deuce of stellar Mariana Van Zeller shows: “Missionaries of Hate” and “Soccer’s Lost Boys.”

#KABOOM!

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I’ve been religiously following Current.com’s new season of Vanguard dispatches, and this latest one from Mariana van Zeller from Sri Lanka about how the Sinhalese majority crushed the two-and-a-half decade long Tamil insurgency was brilliant.

Vanguard Journalism’s new season is upon us…and Adrian Baschuk clocks this one out of the park in this latest Cuba documentary.