Journalists Who Cover Democracy activism

Delali Adogla-Bessa

Accra, Ghana

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Delali is a freelance journalist, researcher, and photographer based in Ghana. He has written on governance, health, education, the environment, the cocoa value chain, and film.

Delali has produced work for The Continent, SWI Swissinfo, Africa is a Country, Equal Times, ADP Rethink Quarterly and ...

Renan Barbosa

São Paulo, Brazil

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Renan Barbosa is a journalist based in São Paulo, Brazil.

Ahana Bhattacharya

Mumbai, India

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Ahana Bhattacharya is an Entertainment/Bollywood journalist based in Mumbai, India.

James Brooks

Copenhagen, Denmark

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James Brooks is a journalist based in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Mustapha Ceesay

Farato, Gambia

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Gambian//Award-winning journalist//Journalism trainer//News Editor

Priyanka Chandani

Mumbai, India

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Priyanka Chandani is a Mumbai based journalist with over nine years of print media experience in news and features writing  and editing.

Melissa Chemam

Paris, France

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*Journalist, reporter working for radio, TV, digital media and print magazines. 
Also a writer and podcast producer.
Working from France, the UK and parts of Africa, focusing on the Global South and global majority.
I cover international & humanitarian news, as well as cultural events.

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Katherine Cheng

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

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Katherine Cheng is a photojournalist based in Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Eduard Cousin

Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Eduard Cousin is a freelance journalist based in Cairo since 2013 and covering the Arab region, writing on politics, security, social issues, economy, energy, and entrepreneurship. He is the author of a book on the aftermath of the Arab Spring in Egypt (In Dutch: Nu de wereld niet meer kijkt). ...

Antony Dapiran

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

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Antony Dapiran is a writer & commentator based in Hong Kong. He is the author of two books on Hong Kong, including most recently "City on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong" (Scribe, 2020). His bylines have appeared in The Atlantic, New Statesman, Foreign Policy, Quartz, The Guardian, Bloomberg Opinion, ...

Saeed Kamali Dehghan

London, United Kingdom

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Saeed Kamali Dehghan is a staff journalist at the Guardian based in London, United Kingdom.

Elizabeth Dickinson

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

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Elizabeth Dickinson is a Deca journalist based in the Arabian Peninsula. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Foreign Policy, The Economist, Politico Magazine, the Christian Science Monitor, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and The Financial Times, among others. 
Elizabeth was ...

Peter Guest

Singapore, Singapore

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Peter Guest is a writer, editor, producer and photographer, based in Southeast Asia. His work has appeared in Nikkei Asian Review, the Atlantic, Newsweek, the Financial Times, Wired, the Guardian, the Wall Street Journal and others. He has reported from more than 40 countries across five continents,...

Erin Hale

Taipei, Taiwan

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Erin Hale is a journalist based in Taipei.

Sam Knights

London, United Kingdom

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Sam Knights is a journalist based in London, United Kingdom. He is the editor of This Is Not A Drill, which was published in 2019 by Penguin Books and includes essays by Vandana Shiva and Rowan Williams. He has been involved in climate activism and political organising for many years and has ...

Vladimir Kostic

Beograd, Serbia

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Vladimir Kostic is a journalist based in Beograd, Serbia.

Perry Link

Riverside, United States of America

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Perry Link is a journalist based in Riverside, United States of America.

Austin Mackell

Bega, Australia

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Austin is an Australian cross-platform journalist who began his career in Lebanon during the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel. He worked in the region for a total of four years, for major outlets like The Diplomat, CBC, CBS,  ABC (America), ABC (Australia), as well as independent and community ...

Yamuna Matheswaran

Amman, Jordan

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Yamuna Matheswaran is an independent journalist and visual artist from India with extensive research, editing and fact-checking experience. She holds a Master's degree in International Studies and a Bachelor's degree in Biotechnology. Publications include The Hindu, New Internationalist, Climate ...

Geoffrey Ndege

Nairobi, Kenya

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Geoffrey Ndege is a journalist based in Nairobi, Kenya.
He covers Science, Politics, Technology, Current Affairs, Opinion, Agriculture, Energy, Education, Entrepreneurship, Governance, International Emerging Issues, Society, and culture.

James Onslow

Kyiv, Ukraine

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I am a reporter for bne IntelliNews based in Kyiv, Ukraine. Last year I finished a master's in international journalism at City, University of London. 

Before that I was a corporate intelligence analyst at a London law firm, specialising in Eastern Europe. I speak fluent Russian and intermediate ...

Ramesh Pokhrel

Kathmandu, Nepal

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Ramesh Pokhrel is an Investigative journalist, Researcher based in Kathmandu (and also New Delhi). 

Areas of Focus / Coverage

Crime & Justice, Politics, Military affairs, Geopolitics, foreign & global affairs, current affairs across Asia.

Magdaléna Rojo

Oaxaca, Mexico

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~ I am an internationally published, freelance multimedia journalist. I cover global issues and human rights, focusing mostly on women, indigenous peoples, migration, climate crisis, and the intersection of all these. I have been working from the Global South countries for the past ten years. I ...

Patrick Young

Il-Belt Valletta, Malta

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Patrick Young is based in Malta but travels frequently.

He is a specialist in global finance and business, including startups and has discussed global economic, financial and political issues in media the world over.

He is the Publisher of the leading newsletters in the business of financial ...

Kelly Yu

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

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Kelly is a Hong Kong-based multimedia journalist covering politics, culture, technology, climate change, and human rights. Her reporting has taken her from the 2024 Paris Olympics to the 2023 APEC Summit in San Francisco. She contributed on-the-ground coverage to TRT World and ABC News Australia, ...