Technology dominates our daily lives, from how we communicate to how we make sense of the world. Big Tech companies and their leaders have major sway in national and global politics, an influence that...
Daniel Howden
Daniel Howden is the founder and Managing Director of Lighthouse Reports, an award-winning European nonprofit investigative newsroom. A writer, reporter and editor his work focuses on surveillance technologies and migration. He was previously a foreign correspondent with the Economist, the Guardian and the Independent. Much of his work since 2016 has focused on migration; he was Senior Editor at Refugees Deeply and a Visiting Fellow at Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre. He is a two-times winner of the Migration Media Award, and his long-form writing won special mention at the inaugural True Stories Award, and a finalist slot at the Online Journalism Awards.
Events IJF 2025
European Press Prize in conversation: lightning talks and 2024 shortlist announcement
The European Press Prize, the awards for excellence in European journalism, brings to the IJF its Lightning Talks. Three inspirational sessions by renowned European Press Prize laureates will bring yo...
For journalism, financial independence is editorial independence. Whether it’s rich proprietors or philanthropists or any special interest group, newsrooms that are overly reliant on one funding sou...
Across the world, experimental technology is being deployed that promises to recover hundreds of millions of euros in alleged welfare fraud. Some of the most vulnerable members of societies are being ...
What can the spread of QAnon from the US to Europe teach us about tackling disinformation and understanding countries’ vulnerabilities to viral conspiracy theories. Lighthouse Reports and Bellingcat...
For months, journalists investigating the effects of injections of Italian and European funds into North Africa to stop migratory flows and externalize border control have reported on the routes that ...
European priorities, Libyan realities: the central Mediterranean refugee crisis
The session will take as its starting point the October 2017 long-read article entitled European priorities, Libyan realities by Daniel Howden. While in Italy, as in Europe, we witness a progressive...
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