Journalists Who Cover BIR

Aisha Abdelhamid

Columbia, United States of America

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Aisha Abdelhamid is a journalist based in Columbia, SC, USA and Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt.

Deepak Adhikari

Kathmandu, Nepal

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Deepak Adhikari is a freelance journalist based in Kathmandu, Nepal. He was the editor of Nepal Check, a fact-checking platform in Nepal. From March 2020 to July 2022, he was the editor of South Asia Check, Nepal's pioneering fact-checking outlet. 

His areas of work include Nepal's politics, ...

Alessandra Bajec

Istanbul, Turkey

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Alessandra Bajec is an independent journalist with nearly 15 years of experience reporting across the Middle East and North Africa. She has reported from Tunisia, Egypt, the Palestinian Territories, Lebanon, Iraq, and beyond. Her reporting has appeared in international outlets including The New ...

Massinissa Benlakehal

Tunis, Tunisia

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Currently available for stories and interviews from Algeria + Tunisia, 


Freelancer after several years of staffing with newsrooms in Algeria, I'm currently fully available for news-gathering, photo-shooting, well equipped for the job. I mostly work on the NorthAfrican area, including both ...

Daniel Brown

Paris, France

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Daniel Brown is a experienced journalist based in Paris, France. For the last 30 years he has traveled the world reporting in cultural, political and sporting fields, essentially in English and French. His features and reports regularly feature in publications in England and the US, and he has been ...

Paul Drury-Bradey

Leeds, United Kingdom

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I'm a journalist based in Yorkshire. I studied journalism at Sheffield University and started my career in local newspapers, gaining NCTJ qualifications in Media Law, Public Affairs and 100wpm Teeline shorthand.

After a few years in local newspapers I moved to Nottingham and spent a couple of ...

Natasha Foote

Brussels, Belgium

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Natasha is a freelance journalist, podcaster and moderator specialising in EU agrifood policy. She previously worked as an agrifood journalist with the EU media EURACTIV, and before that spent several years working on farms around Europe to learn more about the realities for farmers on the ground. ...

Eden Harris

Washington, United States of America

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I'm Eden Harris, a journalist based in Washington, D.C. I freelance for NBC News, Financial Times' Banking Risk and Regulation, Connecting Africa News and more. I cover U.S.-Africa policy, banking, fintech, culture, U.S. politics and more. I've traveled to Africa for reporting as well. 

I've ...

Abhaya Raj Joshi

Kathmandu, Nepal

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Abhaya Raj Joshi is a journalist based in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Lovemore Khomo

Lilongwe, Malawi

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Lovemore Khomo is a journalist based in Lilongwe, Central Region, Malawi. I'm a writer, and content developer that can make of videos and photographs that tells human interest stories. Currently, I work with Nation Publications Limited www.mwnation.com as a correspondent. I'm passionate about ...

Dr. Sandesh Lamsal

Kathmandu, Nepal

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Dr. Sandesh Lamsal is a Nepali physician, writer, and digital content creator with a strong focus on health journalism and public education. A 2021 graduate of Pavlov First State Medical University in Russia, he has contributed articles on health, medicine, current affairs, and societal issues to ...

Amy Lewis

Dublin, Ireland

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I am a freelance journalist from Dublin, currently based in Wexford. I work as a freelance journalist and have over six years of experience working for both print and online media outlets. At present, my writing predominantly focuses on scientific issues, travel and general interest features but I ...

Andrew Mambondiyani

Mutare, Zimbabwe

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Andrew Mambondiyani is a journalist based in Mutare, Zimbabwe with more than 10 years journalism and media consultancy experience. Between 2010 and 2011 he served as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at Massachusetts institute of Technology (USA).   In 2008 he served as a Middlebury Environment ...

Raquel Nogueira

Madrid, Spain

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Raquel Nogueira is a journalist based in Madrid, Spain. I specialized in human rights, peace and security, and Middle East politics, though I'm a pretty versatile journalist.

Dan Peleschuk

Kyiv, Ukraine

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Dan Peleschuk is a freelance journalist in Kiev, Ukraine, covering politics and society in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Gaurav Pokharel

Kathmandu, Nepal

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Gaurav Pokharel is a journalist based in Kathmandu, Nepal, covering national security, organized/cross-border crime, defense, and current affairs.

He writes for **** in Nepal. Beside **** in Nepal, Pokharel also writes for several international media outlets. His works have appeared in The ...

Markus Ponweiser

Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

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I am an Austrian freelance journalist based in Israel, reporting for German-speaking outlets such as Kurier, Datum, and Jüdische Allgemeine. My work focuses on Israeli society, politics, and the wider Middle East, with a strong interest in how conflict, media, and identity intersect.

Fluent in ...

Rupert Read

Norwich, United Kingdom

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Rupert Read is a professor of philosophy at the University of East Anglia. He is a former chair of Green House think tank, and a former Green Party of England and Wales councillor, spokesperson, European parliamentary candidate and national parliamentary candidate. Until recently Rupert was a ...

Malaka Rodrigo

Colombo, Sri Lanka

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Malaka Rodrigo is a journalist based in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Yunus Saliu

Banjul, Gambia

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Yunisa Saliu, is a reporter/columnist and publisher of DTourisphere (****) online tourism, culture, heritage, and entertainment news. He has worked on different desks at Daily Observer newspaper reporting and handled columns such as Diplomatic Suites, Crime Watch, Panorama and Tourisphere. 
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Diarmuid Sherry

Ciudad Real, Spain

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Diarmuid Sherry is a journalist based in Ciudad Real, Spain. I have also been in Kyrgyzstan, North America and South America. I am currently looking to build up a modernised portfolio and am looking for credit rather than payments. I have previously worked for Irish-boxing.com. My Whatsapp is ******...

Roshan Shrestha

Kathmandu, Nepal

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Roshan Shrestha is a Nepali journalist, author, and digital media entrepreneur based in Kathmandu. Born in Bahrabise, Nepal, he is the founder and editor-in-chief of Khoj Samachar, an independent digital media platform that produces civic and public-awareness journalism in Nepali and English. He is ...

Benjamin Tetteh

Dakar, Senegal

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Benjamin Tetteh is a multimedia journalist based in Dakar, Senegal and covering West and Central Africa.

Manon Verchot

New York, United States of America

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Manon Verchot is a multimedia journalist and co-founder of InOldNews. Previously, she headed video teams at Mongabay, Hindustan Times and Mint. She wears many hats, having worked as a reporter, manager, editor, producer, and trainer. She has trained hundreds of journalists in more than 12 countries ...