Liz Cookman
🖋️Correspondent: Ukraine, Turkey, Middle East
📍 Kyiv and Istanbul
🏆Best Print & Best Specialist Journalist, Freelance Journalism Awards 2024
🏆Amnesty Gaby Rado award 2023
@dartcenter.bsky.social
We study and teach informed, innovative and ethical reporting on violence, conflict and tragedy. Based at @columbiajournalism.bsky.social. DMs open! Banner 📸 by Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty 🔗 dartcenter.org
@indexoncensorship.org
A voice for the persecuted. https://www.indexoncensorship.org/
@gabriellajoz.bsky.social
Freelance journalist writing about children for the Telegraph, iNews, Devex, Equal Times & others. Dart Centre for Trauma & Journalism alumni. Premio Luchetta, Freelancing For Journalists and Amnesty International award winner. www.gabriellajozwiak.com
@rorypecktrust.bsky.social
Global NGO working to protect independent journalism by empowering freelance journalists with the resources, resilience and knowledge they require to remain safe. Producer of the #RoryPeckAwards www.rorypecktrust.org
@patcaldwell.bsky.social
Senior Editor at Politico Magazine https://www.patrickcaldwell.com/ pcaldwell@politico.com
@madikwilliamson.bsky.social
RN specializing in migratory health, public health, open borders advocate, criminalized human rights defender. Libration is healthcare ✊🏽
@cen4infores.bsky.social
Non-profit that exposes human rights & war crimes, counters disinformation, & combats online harms targeting women & minorities. www.info-res.org
@freddydeknatel.bsky.social
Executive Editor, Democracy in Exile, the journal of DAWN @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social | Previously @ World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social & Foreign Affairs @foreignaffairs.com | https://dawnmena.org/about/who-we-are-2/frederick-deknatel/
@rashnarayan.bsky.social
London-based travel journalist and author specialising in gastronomy, history and the drinks industry. Mainly focus on USA and South Asia, but always ready to venture anywhere. Bylines: Nat Geo, Wanderlust, The Times. https://rashminarayan.contently.com
@qusaynoor.net
❤ A journalist from Syria ❤ 📸 In the ( @anadoluajansi ) And ( (@newarab.com.web.brid.gy ) ) 📸
@lcmporter.bsky.social
Award-winning correspondent based in Turkey for The National newspaper. English, français, العربيّة, فارسى, Türkçe öğreniyorum. I like elegant writing, translation, textiles, and the sea. All views are my own.
@clairecozens.bsky.social
Managing editor of The Fuller Project and recovering foreign correspondent (Delhi and Beijing). Now mostly in south London, with occasional time out for good behaviour
@aloner.bsky.social
Senior editor, @prospectmagazine.co.uk | Co-host, The Prospect Podcast | Ex: NS, Haaretz, TBI | UK, Israel/Palestine, feminism, politics, Ursula K Le Guin | Sign up to my newsletter: http://thebacklash.substack.com |
@iamjess.bsky.social
Head of narrative, The Guardian. I edit US long form and essays. How to pitch me: see below. French. Based in Montana. ‘We can't stop here, this is bat country' - Hunter S Thompson.
@jessiewill.bsky.social
Freelance journalist, writer, occasional photographer. Words in The Guardian, Financial Times, Foreign Policy, TIME, BBC, openDemocracy, Al Jazeera, The i Paper, & more. Get in touch: www.jessiewilliams.co.uk
@cloek.bsky.social
Historian | Photography consultant | Writer | Educator Paris-Istanbul
@gossjam.bsky.social
Writer and audio drama producer living in a cave in Turkey so you don't have to. Hickson in the streets, Rutherford in the sheets.
@newyorker.com
Unparalleled reporting and commentary on politics and culture, plus humor and cartoons, fiction and poetry. Get our Daily newsletter: http://nyer.cm/gtI6pVM Follow The New Yorker’s writers and contributors: https://go.bsky.app/Gh5bFwS
@yusufcan.bsky.social
Coordinator & Analyst @ Wilson Center. All things MENA & Turkey. Alum @ Georgetown Uni. Views my own. ycan1412@gmail.com
@arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social
Deputy Editor @telglobalhealth.bsky.social Contact: arthur.scottgeddes@telegraph.co.uk Previously in Germany and Pakistan Free to read 🔓 www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/
@alexebarker.bsky.social
World News Editor at Financial Times, ex Brussels bureau chief and media writer. Podcast: Hot Money. Sometimes dreams in Turkish. alex.barker@ft.com
@bradleysecker.bsky.social
Photojournalist & portrait photographer in Istanbul. Brit. Covering migration & LGBT rights, politics, culture, news & features. Nat Geo Explorer. Rep by Panos Pictures. bradleysecker.substack.com / bradleysecker.com
@irgarner.bsky.social
Russian Prof @ Pilecki Institute, Warsaw/Fellow @ Centre for International and Defence Policy, Ontario | FrHistS | Author of "Z Generation: Russia's Fascist Youth” - get it @ http://linktr.ee/igarner | 🇨🇦
@marcowenjones.bsky.social
Associate Professor Northwestern University in Qatar | Studies Disinfo, Digital Repression & Gulf Politics | Author Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East (Hurst & OUP) Political Repression in Bahrain (Cambridge University Press) | Cat Fancier
@manmademoon.bsky.social
I helped make Moon, Source Code, Warcraft, Mute, the graphic novel MADI and the kids Stenton & Zowie. ROGUE TROOPER movie in the works.
@nujlfb.bsky.social
@NUJOfficial London Freelance Branch. Connecting indie journalists via our magazine, events + networking. | Meetings: 2nd Mon/mo + Friday ☕️ (Training). Run by @nikatalbot. Join us 👉 londonfreelance.org
@zbilginsoy.bsky.social
Filmmaker, producer, freelance journalist. Based in Istanbul, Turkey. zeynepbilginsoy.com
@donnalferguson.bsky.social
Multiple award-winning freelance journalist, mainly for The Guardian and The Observer. Head of the Freelance Chapter of Women in Journalism, which campaigns for equality and diversity in journalism.
@willylowry.bsky.social
Senior correspondent for The National covering the US State Department, foreign policy and the Middle East. Host of The Interview with Willy Lowry.
@newsaboutturkey.bsky.social
Predicting the unpredictable!☯➔ Founded by a small group of purged academics, http://newsaboutturkey.com offers critical news, views, reports & media commentary regarding #Turkey. Op-eds are welcomed. ➔ https://newsaboutturkey.com/submit-an-op-ed/
@katiemcque.bsky.social
Investigative reporter, covering tech and human rights. 2024-'25 Pulitzer Center Fellow - Ocean Reporting Network Bylines inc: Guardian, Washington Post, ICIJ Brooklyn, previously Dubai & London https://katiemcque.com/
@nicridley.bsky.social
Assistant editor in chief at The National in Abu Dhabi. Posts are my own.
@crisisgroup.org
We're an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organisation, committed to preventing and resolving deadly conflict.
@skirchy.bsky.social
Deputy editor of investigations, Guardian US. I write about surveillance, human rights, Christian fundamentalism, SCOTUS, billionaires, and any story that I think is worth investigating https://www.theguardian.com/profile/stephanie-kirchgaessner
@andywilks61.bsky.social
Turkey-based hack. Posting on anything that catches my eye or gets my goat. Views arbitrary
@journalismnews.bsky.social
News, digital tools and tips for journalists and publishers from https://www.journalism.co.uk.
@mattsteinglass.bsky.social
Europe correspondent for The Economist. If you don’t use your real name, the bar for mute/block is low. Send me tales of corruption, the most important story in the world.
@sarahrainsfordbbc.bsky.social
BBC Eastern Europe correspondent. Expelled from Moscow. Now in Warsaw. In Ukraine when I can. My book on all that & more is "Goodbye to Russia" (online & in good book shops). I may also be a little bit obsessed with a certain spaniel
@nataliyavasilyeva.bsky.social
Freelance reporter @nytimes.com Past: Jerusalem and Moscow, ex-Telegraph, AP survivor. Shortlisted for 2024 UK Press Awards Foreign Correspondent of the Year.
@sewella.bsky.social
News director for Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Turkey at the Associated Press. Contact asewell @ap.org
@cheesemanab.bsky.social
Middle East for @washingtonpost.com in Beirut. Before: 2024 Stern fellow in DC, freelance Mid East corro/investigative reporter. Previous life at @airwars.bsky.social. Not the one on TikTok. | Signal: abbiecheeseman.58
@leloveluck.bsky.social
@washingtonpost.com foreign correspondent covering international crises, including the Israel-Gaza and Lebanon wars. Based in London. Previously: Baghdad, Beirut, Cairo. I’m new here. 🙋🏻♀️