Journalists Who Cover IS

Javid Ahmad

Srinagar,

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Javid Ahmad is a journalist based in Srinagar, India.

Elif Akgul

İstanbul, Turkey

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ELIF AKGUL is a journalist based in İstanbul, Turkey.

Ahmad Algohbary

Sana'a, Yemen

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Freelance Yemeni journalist | Emmy & Sheffield nominee | OJAs winner | Covering Yemen/ME impartially | Press freedom advocate.

Jacob Atkins

Portland, United States of America

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Jacob is an experienced multimedia journalist with a demonstrated history of covering civil society and Latin America, particularly tech startups and Mexico. He is skilled in content writing and management, SEO marketing, news reporting, copy editing, as well as speaking, reading, and writing in ...

Anuj Chopra

Kabol, Afghanistan

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Anuj Chopra is a journalist based in Kabol, Afghanistan.

Piero Cingari

Portimão, Portugal

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Financial Journalist & Macro Analyst with over 10 years of experience covering global markets, central bank policy, and cross-asset dynamics.

I am consistently ranked as a top contributor on Journalist.net across the Finance, Federal Reserve, ECB, and Global Economy categories.

Currently, I ...

James Clark

London, United Kingdom

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James Clark is a journalist based in London, United Kingdom, specialising in sustainable tourism, adventure, and the great outdoors.

Umar Farooq

Istanbul, Turkey

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Umar Farooq is a journalist based in Istanbul, Turkey.  He reports regularly for the Los Angeles Times from the region.  In the past year, his work has also appeared in Foreign Affairs, National Geographic, The Guardian, Boston Review, and The Nation.  

He received a Pulitzer Center Crisis ...

Taruni Gandhi

Chandigarh, India

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Taruni Gandhi is a journalist based in Chandigarh, India.

Duncan Graham

Jawa Timur, Indonesia

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Duncan Graham is a journalist based in Malang, East Java, Indonesia.

Dalia Hatuqa

Ramallah

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I am a multimedia journalist whose work has appeared in The Economist, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic and elsewhere.  Since 2000, I have divided my time between the U.S. and the West Bank, covering a range of political, economic and cultural issues for print, TV and radio.

Before moving back to ...

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 ...

Terri Langford

Austin, United States of America

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Terri Langford is a veteran journalist based in Austin, United States of America. She's the health reporter for The Texas Tribune, an independent news organization that covers Texas policy, government and politics.

Ayanangsha Maitra

Kolkata, India

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With over 5 years experience in Print and Digital media, I've been covering issues on/in Indo-Bangladesh border, Drug Smuggling, Border Security etc for media as well as global research organization. 

As the Senior editor of New Delhi based The CEO Magazine ( and the group's other publication), ...

Samiullah Popal

Kabul, Afghanistan

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Samiullah Popal is an Afghan photojournalist and documentary storyteller covering breaking news, conflict zones, humanitarian crises, and major political and social developments across Afghanistan. His work focuses on strong visual storytelling from the field, highlighting real people and ...

Jill Rothenberg

Pueblo, United States of America

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I'm a Colorado-based freelance journalist writing about small business, health, politics, and sports from rural and small-town Colorado, stories under the radar that shouldn't be. These include pieces on the success of regional malls for the Washington Post, Trump's bromance with bikers for the ...

Juan Salinas

Trujillo, Peru

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Juan Salinas is a journalist based in Trujillo, La Libertad, Perú.

Verena Schad

Lyon, France

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Verena Schad is a journalist, copy writer und communication consultant based in Lyon, France, with a base in Berlin too. With over 20 years of professional experience as press officer for different industries and enterprises for six years she works as a news journalist for the international news ...

Ramananda Sengupta

Bengaluru, India

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I'm a journalist. editor and marketing communications professional based in Bengaluru, India. Over the past quarter century, I've written extensively on diverse subjects ranging from air shows to defence expos, parenting to politics, rock stars to religion, and reviewed cars, books and gadgets. But ...

Michael Sullivan

Mueang Chiang Rai, Thailand

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Michael Sullivan is a journalist based in Mueang Chiang Rai, Thailand. First and foremost radio journalist, also print.

Rough work history:
2011-2017 Mostly freelance, frequent contributor from Southeast Asia for National Public Radio (NPR) U.S. Covering Thailand, Cambodia, Philippines, Vietnam,...

Emelie Svensson

New York, United States of America

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Emelie Svensson is a journalist based in New York, United States of America.

Experienced print journalist, tv reporter, researcher, fixer, documentary filmmaker. 

Working in New York for eight years, for some of the biggest media outlets in Sweden; Aftonbladet, TV4, Svenska Dagbladet, TT, ...

Todd Williams

Taipei City, Taiwan

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Todd Williams is a journalist based in Taipei City, Taiwan.