Journalists Who Cover Refugees and Asylum Seekers

Nidzara Ahmetasevic

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Nidzara Ahmetasevic is a journalist based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She has a long career as a journalist working for various local, regional and international media on human rights, war crimes, and international affairs, migrations. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, Al ...

Vinícius Assis

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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Vinícius Assis is a MoJo (Mobile Journalist) based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, covering the whole Africa since 2018 for different media houses in Brazil, US and Europe.

Mark Duffy

Bogotá, Colombia

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Mark Duffy is a journalist based in Bogotá, Colombia. English mother tongue; fluent in Spanish.

Florian Elabdi

Copenhagen, Denmark

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I'm an experienced investigative, feature and documentary journalist residing in Copenhagen. Since 2015, I've been reporting from Denmark, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and South America. 

I have reported for a wide range of international media such as The Washington Post, The Guardian, BBC, ...

Farid Farid

Cairo Governorate, Egypt

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Farid Farid is a journalist based in Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt.

David Hutt

Prague, Czech Republic

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A freelance political journalist, columnist, commentator and editor...

David Hutt is a political journalist based between the Czech Republic and Britain. He focuses on European foreign policy, Central European politics, and relations between Europe and Asia. He is also an expert on Southeast ...

Marianna Karakoulaki

Cambridge, United Kingdom

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Award-winning photojournalist, journalist and researcher with ten years of experience in journalism, publishing, and communications based in Cambridge, UK but available to travel. 

I work as a foreign correspondent, journalist, photojournalist, and fixer for a variety of media organisations and ...

Naipanoi Lepapa

Nairobi, Kenya

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Naipanoi Lepapa is an award winning freelance investigative and feature journalist based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Naipanoi is interested in under-reported stories and writes about gender, human rights, health and environmental stories. She also writes about culture and technology.

Rhea Mogul

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

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I’m a freelance journalist, based in Hong Kong, and have covered a range of topics, from political unrest to public health. My work has appeared in several publications, including South China Morning Post,
Forbes.com, Hong Kong Free Press, France 24 among others.
Last year, I spent the bulk of ...

Taha Sakr

Cairo Governorate, Egypt

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Taha Sakr is a journalist based in Cairo Governorate, Egypt.

Taha Sakr is a political affairs journalist / news reporter, born in Saudi Arabia in 1992 who studied media and journalism in English language at the Faculty of Mass Communication at Cairo University.

Sakr’s experience extends for ...

Robertocarlos Sanchez

San José, Costa Rica

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Roberto Carlos Sánchez is a photographer whose work focuses on photojournalism and documentary.

Official Photographer for the Presidents of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado Quesada (2018-2022) and Luis Guillermo Solís Rivera (2014-2018).

His work has been featured in national and international ...

Sarah Souli

Athina, Greece

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Sarah Souli is an independent journalist based in Athens, Greece. She focuses on narrative-driven, in-depth pieces that connect individual stories to a bigger picture, be that politics, economics, the environment, culture, or human rights. 

Her print work has been featured in Vice, The Guardian, ...

Akio Yaita

Taipei, Taiwan

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Akio Yaita is a Japanese journalist now based in Taiwan. He worked for Japanese newspaper Sankei Shimbun for more than twenty years. He also writes column regularly for Japanese political magazines SEIRON and WILL published monthly. Throughout his career in the last two decades, as a well-known ...