Reports from the Frontline
Investigative journalism is under threat as never before. From Beirut to Athens, Paris to London, our four journalist partners have been targets of those attacks. In this session, each of those partners talk us through one of their national security stories and its aftermath in the form of harassment from the state.
Chaired by James Harkin.
James Harkin
James Harkin is the director of the Centre for Investigative Journalism. He is a journalist who covers social change and political conflict and whose work appears in Vanity Fair, Harper’s, GQ, The Smithsonian, Prospect and the Guardian.
Lara Bitar
Lara Bitar is an independent media worker based in Beirut, Lebanon, and the founding editor of The Public Source, a magazine of long-form journalism and critical commentary from the left.
Nikolas Leontopoulos
Nikolas Leontopoulos is a Greek journalist based in Athens. He is the co-founder of Reporters United, a new centre for investigative journalism and a network of reporters in Greece. Leontopoulos worked for ten years for the Athens daily Eleftherotypia.
Ariane Lavrilleux
Ariane Lavrilleux is a French journalist working in the Middle East and based in Cairo. In 2023, the French justice system seized equipment related to her investigation into Operation Sirli, with the aim of identifying her sources.
Matt Kennard
Matt Kennard was co-founder and former chief investigator at Declassified UK, a news outlet investigating British foreign policy. He was a fellow at the CIJ in 2014-2016. He has worked as a staff writer for the Financial Times in Washington, D.C., New York, and London.
- 14 November 2024 09.30–11.00 GMT
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Location: Frobisher Auditorium 1, The Barbican
This event will be recorded