Worldwide the number of infants and pregnant mothers fleeing their home countries is on the rise. Countless news reports focus on the desperate lives of these migrants, suggesting there is little hope...
Irene Caselli
Irene Caselli is the First 1,000 Days correspondent at The Correspondent, a transnational member-funded platform, where she covers sexuality, women's rights and early childhood. She has been a multimedia reporter for 15 years, working for the BBC, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Guardian and Univisión, among others, mainly out of Latin America. She published a chapter in Unbias the News, a book about how to make journalism more diverse. One of her short films on women's football and gender inequality received a prize for collaborative journalism. Irene has been awarded fellowships by the IWMF, the European Journalism Centre and the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma.
Photo credit Lise Straatsma.
Events IJF 2020
This is a momentous year for Latin America: with far-right Jair Bolsonaro's debut as Brazil's president and Andrés Manuel López Obrador's in Mexico, the Central American and Venezuelan exodus toward...
Organized or state-instigated attacks against journalists, news organizations or the very idea of news itself range from intimidation to assassination: A social media campaign urging the gang rape of ...
