My name is Um-E-Aymen Babar and I have just graduated with my masters in South Asian Studies from the University of Cambridge. I am currently a freelance journalist working at the intersection of sports, class and race. I am passionate about improving equality and diversity within the media landscape and I hope to produce journalism with genuine insight [...]
The shortlist has been announced for the 2021 Georgina Henry award - the winner and runner up will be announced at the British Journalism Awards on December 8. The winner will receive £3000 and the runner up £1000 from Wiggin LLP who have supported the award since 2016. Chandni Sembhi is a Senior Producer at [...]
On International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (25 November), UNESCO wants to raise awareness for the continued violence, threats and harassment that women journalists and female media workers face all around the world. Their safety is put at risk by offline and online attacks, ranging from violence, stigmatization, sexist hate speech, trolling, physical [...]
Winner of the Women In Local News Awards - outstanding journalist of the year - sponsored by Women in Journalism Awards judges described Lucy’s outstanding work and contribution to local journalism as recognising “the power of journalism as a force for good, using that power highly effectively” This award carries a prize of £500 provided [...]
“When I go back, I’ll be going back to a toxic soup; I will actually put my anti-pollution mask on the second I leave the airport,” says Lou Del Bello. The Italian environmental journalist lives and works in New Delhi, one of the ten most polluted cities on the planet. She is currently back in [...]
Sapna Gopal did not set out to become an environmental journalist. She spent the first nine years of her career writing for a range of publications, including the Times of India, on subjects as diverse as celebrities and monuments in the city of Hyderabad. In 2009, she began writing articles for Planet Earth, a magazine [...]
How would you feel if someone threatened to kill you or your family? It's a question most of us will never have to face, but it is nothing new to Leona O'Neill, a high-profile journalist in Northern Ireland, which, says Amnesty International, is the most dangerous place for journalists in the UK. Many, especially those [...]
For Fatima Arkin, reporting on climate change is not about headline-grabbing stories, but about untangling its complex impacts. As the eyes of the world focus on the COP26 conference in Glasgow, this is a message she wants journalists in the West to hear. “It’s not just the story we tell but how we tell the [...]
Ugochi Anyaka-Oluigbo understands the devasting impact of climate change better than most. She was born and raised in the commercial city of Aba, Abia state in Nigeria but regularly travels to her home town, Amucha, in Imo state where she witnessed first-hand how erosion of the local landscape swallowed up her neighbourhood’s homes and farmland, cut off communities and [...]
Environmental Journalist Erica Gies has seen the impact that rapid climate change has made on peoples’ lives. She grew up in California and now makes British Columbia her home and has witnessed first-hand the aftermath of raging forest fires, unprecedented temperatures and the loss of homes and communities in both countries as well as the [...]
