At a time when the mobility of people and migration are used by populist movements in Europe, the role of the media and journalists is key to explain, contextualize and reduce prejudices. The panel wi...
Ismail Einashe
Ismail Einashe is an award-winning journalist and writer. He has written for BBC News, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, Foreign Policy, and The Nation, among many others. At present, he is a Senior Journalist at Lost in Europe, a cross-border journalism project that investigates the disappearance of child migrants in Europe. In 2021, he won the inaugural Investigative Journalism for the EU (IJ4EU) Impact Award as part of the Lost in Europe team. In 2019, he won a Migration Media Award and in 2020 he was shortlisted for the European Press Prize. Ismail has co-edited the book, Lost in Media: Migrant Perspectives and the Public Sphere, a collection of essays on the representations of migrants and refugees in the European media. He is also an Ochberg Fellow at the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University.
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