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Looking forward to journalism festival, where I'll be speaking about Lighthouse Reports Suspicion Machines investigation on a panel organised by sigmaawards. Let's grab a coffee!

Will be heading to Perugia this week for journalism festival with some of our Lighthouse Reports team. Do reach out if you want to grab a coffee. I’ll also be walking around doing some interviews for our #Backlight podcast

We are looking forward to seeing you all next week in #IFJ24 Perugia where Jack Sapoch and I will be doing a workshop on investigating migrant shipwrecks, the workshop will explore many resources and techniques that we have used in our previous Lighthouse Reports investigations

DEADLINE: Early-career journalists with an interest in new approaches to investigative journalism can still apply for a remote fellowship with Lighthouse Reports. Three positions are available: OSINT fellow, Data fellow and Reporting fellow.

Details: t.ly/9I99o

Latest from the Immigration Detention Monitor: Senegal: Blocking the West African Migration Route. Frontex says the West Africa route surged in 2023, but Europe's plans to boost surveillance and control operations may result in more harm tinyurl.com/2uzjhntm

Revisit this piece from last year: When Russia invaded Ukraine, the country’s richest men became targets of unprecedented Western sanctions. Coda Story and Lighthouse Reports analyzed their Instagram accounts to understand how their lives have changed. codastory.com/instagarchs/

Arizona folks!

I've got two upcoming book presentations for The Case for Open Borders.

Tucson, 4/6, 4pm: Antigone Books with Melissa del Bosque
Phoenix, 4/16, 6:30pm Changing Hands Bookstore with Belén Sisa

antigonebooks.com/event/live-rea…
changinghands.com/event/april202…

We’re delighted to see our investigation into the Juarez fire with La Verdad & El Paso Matters republished in the Texas Observer. Here’s to more collaborations across the US-Mexico border

🏭🌳A few days ago I published this story in EL PAÍS about how big tech companies are having a hard time finding places to build their physical infrastructures. Big data centres require a lot of resources, but in return they have little to offer the communities where they are 🧵

What’s the EU’s newest expensive ally in the war on migration doing? Egypt is deporting Sudanese refugees wholesale back into a war zone that Europe’s migration obsession was part of creating

I've had quite a few people reach out to ask me what it was like to be an investigative reporting fellow with Lighthouse. This podcast is a good summary, but my email/DMs still open if you have more specific questions.

📰 🔍 Una investigación transfronteriza de La Verdad Lighthouse Reports y El Paso Matters revela omisiones ocurridas en 2023 en la estancia migratoria de Ciudad Juárez que contribuyeron al incendio provocado en una celda bajo llave donde murieron 40 migrantes:
buff.ly/43seOwJ

Good to see Sink the Boats investigation chosen among highlights this month by GIJN en français

Secondly our investigation on Europe's Nameless Dead, in which we explored the rising no. of deaths at borders on the Balkan route – & what happens to bodies of the deceased as families search for them
lighthousereports.com/investigation/…

Congrats to a brilliant team: twitter.com/LHreports/stat…

En collaboration avec Lighthouse Reports, Le Monde documente de manière inédite des méthodes policières dangereuses et contraires à la doctrine française officielle pour empêcher les traversées de migrants dans la Manche :
lemonde.fr/societe/video/…

Happy to see two Lighthouse Reports investigations shortlisted for One World Media awards

First our Left Behind series, in which we exposed the broken promises of European govts to help Afghan allies - & the resulting harm

Kudos to Fahim Abed & many others. Stories here:
lighthousereports.com/newsroom/migra…

Recognition belongs to the team but it's important to highlight May Bulman's consistently excellent work.
When I worked with the migration sector in the UK, I saw the incredible respect that people had for her (and it was mutual, of course.)