The persecution and targeting of journalists and their sources is evident around the world. While investigators collaborate across borders and strive for greater impact, threats from security services...
Alison Killing
Alison Killing, senior reporter in visual investigations at The Financial Times, is a Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist and licensed architect who uses open source techniques, geospatial analysis and 3d modelling to investigate and tell stories, then share these techniques with others through talks and workshops.
She worked in architecture and urban planning practices in London and Rotterdam for several years, before starting her own studio, Killing Architects. Since then she has produced and curated an exhibition on death and architecture called Death in Venice, carried out research into the reconstruction in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake and developed Migration Trail, a mapped data visualisation about migration to Europe. In 2021 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, together with Megha Rajagopalan and Christo Buschek, for a series of articles exposing the network of detention camps in Xinjiang, China.
Collaboration not instrumentalisation: how newsrooms can work genuinely with artists to produce compelling journalism
As journalism continues its radical metamorphosis, many legacy and small-scale publications express interest or seek to incorporate work made by artists. Yet, the impulse of many editors and publisher...
