In this panel, three leading investigative reporters will share their tools of the trade while working on high-impact investigations across the MENA region -- which according to RSF remains the most d...
News organisations have struggled to report accurately on the Israel-Gaza war due to a host of challenges. International reporters are not allowed to report from the ground. Local journalists are bein...
A little over ten years ago, the battle for control of Aleppo marked a turning point in the war in Syria: the reconquest of the city by the government of Bashar al Assad closed the phase of hope for t...
Increasing reports are emerging of sexual violence being committed in the war in Ukraine, and it occurs during conflict of all kinds. Few journalistic challenges carry a greater weight of responsibili...
Balas para Todas: the female gaze in reporting on the Middle East and North Africa
Balas Para Todas isn’t about a female “bang-bang” club. It is a conversation, a confession, and a conclusion – that the growing presence of women reporters in war zones and post-war zones acro...
The Syrian uprising of 2011 (and the subsequent conflict) marked a fundamental breaking point in the informational environment of the country. The collapse of the Syrian regime’s authority over larg...
Investigative journalists and independent publications have always been a thorn in the side of those in power, particularly of corrupt governments. In recent years media censorship and repression of i...
The situation of the Kurdish people is becoming increasingly critical. President Trump's decision to withdraw American troops from Northern Syria paved the way for the Turkish offensive, and appeared ...
Reporting conflict, promoting peace? When journalists get between the frontlines (experiences from Colombia, Nigeria, Somalia and Syria)
There are many traps for journalists reporting from conflict areas. Next to security risks, they have to constantly ask themselves how to sensibly report on rapidly changing situations, they have to b...
With the rise of social media and camera phones, journalists and investigators are increasingly being exposed to traumatic online content. Events such as the Christchurch terror attack or chemical wea...