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
Journalist covering #Ukraine with the Financial Times / Also seen in La Croix, Les Jours, Foreign Policy & others
Cybersecurity Reporter at Recorded Future News. Ex at The Kyiv Independent/Forbes/The Kyiv Post
📍Kyiv, Ukraine
Turkey correspondent for the French & Swiss press @ Libération, Les Echos, La Tribune Dimanche, La Tribune de Genève, Bilan magazine.
Based in Istanbul since 2019.
Everything is Connected.
Journalist, novelist, screenwriter. Always looking for stories. LDN, NYC, LA
Support my work at: https://substack.com/@chadbourn
Buy Me A Coffee: coff.ee/chadbourn
Journalist and author. Writes for FT, Guardian, Prospect and The Conversation. New book: Fair or Foul - the Lady Macbeth Guide to Ambition, out now. Visiting Prof at Bayes Business School
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
I write about Russia and Ukraine for The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/francesca-ebel/
Ex North Africa correspondent.
🔥 Live from the frontlines
www.popularfront.co
NYC-based reporter, editor, fact-checker | Pursuing an MLIS @ CUNY Queens College
Work in SPLC, LA Times, Newsweek, Bloomberg, CJR, VICE News, Quartz, NowThis, Mongabay, DNAinfo, Phnom Penh Post, Jakarta Globe, BOMB Magazine, The Diplomat, more.
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Senior Journalist @BBC | Covering Turkey, ME and beyond @BBCWorldService | Previously BBC Turkey Bilingual Correspondent | Instagram: selingirit
Team Lead, Southeast Asia & Africa at @earthsight.bluesky.social
German Media Man with a 150 Year Family History in Turkey
- TV journalist, DOP, Director, Producer, Media Advisory @Frame34.com
- Running The Street Animal Portal @KirikKuyruk.com
- Co-founder & 5 year Chair (until 2023) of FMATurkey.org
MENA programme director at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Europe-based, once upon a time in Syria and Egypt
Irishman in London. Founder of award winning investigative news site Democracy for Sale https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
Europe senior researcher at Human Rights Watch. Focusing on #Greece and #France.
Laurentian Associate Professor of History, St. Lawrence University.
Non-resident scholar, Stockholm University, Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS)
Focused on Turkey and the Middle East.
Unlikely to argue on-line. Blocks dumb, annoying, or noisy.
Herstellend Afrika-correspondent, integrerend Parijzenaar
Verification Producer, CBS News Confirmed. Philadelphian/Londoner by way of Northern Ireland. I like to poke at things that don’t make sense. Big fan of big boats.
Research Fellow at Kings College London XCEPT | Visiting Scholar at The Alan Turing Institute | Fmr Advisor, Government Of Canada | Prev: UN, Oxford
🪬former Mideast editor + correspondent at WashPost, now in DC. Previously: Cairo, Kabul, Gaza, Istanbul, Baghdad.
Deputy political editor, Financial Times. Also amateur iphone photographer and some-time musician.
Award-winning documentary filmmaker based in Senegal | Pulitzer grantee | Former BBC foreign news producer & VJ | 🗣️ 🇩🇪🇬🇧🇫🇷🇳🇱
www.sirathierij.com
Instagram: @Sirithiery
🇺🇦✍️ Ukraine’s voice to the world (ex-Denys from Kharkiv). Editor-in-Chief of Apostrophe Media. All views are my own | Follow me & Support: buymeacoffee.com/glushkoua
Syria, Middle East politics, and Mediterranean security at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI). Fellow at Century International, the Centre for Syrian Studies, and the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI). Occasional freelance writer.
Journalist etc. Currently Irish Times correspondent in Beirut/Damascus & author of ‘My Fourth Time, We Drowned’ (Orwell Prize, Terzani Prize, Inge Feltrinelli Prize, Michel Deon Prize, Irish Book of the Year) & 'This is Also a Love Story' (coming 2026)
🇬🇪 Political Analyst | Focused on Russia, Caucasus & Eastern Europe | UW Political Science grad | Advocate for Georgia's Eurointegration & democracy
IR, race, settler colonialism, Palestine; Decolonizing Palestine @CornellUP; Globalizing Collateral Language @UofGeorgiaP
Assistant Editor, BBC Verify and BBC Monitoring
Director, U.S. Program, International Crisis Group; Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Reiss Center on Law and Security, NYU School of Law
Global deputy chief editor, AFP Fact Check. Ex-BBC. Now in Paris, previously Brussels, Sydney, Phnom Penh, London, Vienna. Always YNWA🔴 Opinions allegedly mine
Strategic communications and outreach focusing on refugees and humanitarian issues. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.
Security, Defence, Europe; #MilSky
Russia Team & GEOINT Team Lead at the Institute for the Study of War. I study war, 🇺🇦, 🇷🇺, & 🇧🇾. Maker of maps and fan of GIS. Led grassroots effort to provide Ukraine Javelins in 2014. W&M alum.
https://understandingwar.org/press-media/staff-bios/g
National security reporter, The Wall Street Journal. Author, “The Internationalists.” Fan, F.C. Barcelona.
Director, Emerging Tech Initiative at SAIS; Professor at the Alperovitch Institute on disinformation/influence ops. SAIS & BU alum. Former IO Policy Lead at Meta, former journalist at Atlantic Media.
Living in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Contributing to Ukrainian voices online | support me : PayPal: kate.boguslavskaya@gmail.com | http://buymeacoffee.com/kateinkharkiv
The Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) | CEPA’s mission is to ensure a strong and democratic transatlantic alliance for future generations. Media inquiries: press@cepa.org
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.
Russia Research Fellow @TheStudyofWar.bsky.social | Russian Cognitive Warfare, Kremlin Drama, Drones & Force Generation | opinions my own
https://www.understandingwar.org/press-media/staff-bios/kateryna-stepanenko
Journalist & broadcaster @guardian @TheSTMagazine @BBCRadio4 @BBCSounds. Author of SEX ROBOTS & VEGAN MEAT and THE PRICE OF LIFE. http://jennykleeman.substack.com
jennykleeman.com
@washingtonpost.com West Africa bureau chief, based in 🇸🇳
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rchasonwp
Director, 21st Century China Center at UCSD: elite politics, financial markets, debt….of China of course
Political Scientist @GIGA Hamburg working on authoritarianism, repression and legitimation, mainly in Middle East & North Africa
MECAM Publication Manager
She/her
No Covid. Mom. Cyclist. For future
🇫🇷🇪🇺🇭🇺🇷🇴 Docteur en histoire (Sorbonne Université) | XXe s. | Histoire politique | Histoire des relations internationales | Histoire de l’Europe médiane | 📚➡️ https://cv.hal.science/matthieu-boisdron
Global Studies prof at UC Santa Barbara, views own. Proud Mainer. Conflict, violence, statebuilding, protest, democracy & authoritarianism. COYS. kaithaler.com. Author of When Rebels Win https://tinyurl.com/whenrebelswin
Marie Curie Fellow @ShefUniPolitics- #criminology and #sociology scholar- critical studies on men and masculinities, gendered violence, anti-gender movements, psychosocial studies, migration studies, LGBTQ studies, gender sensitive design and research
@idos-research.bsky.social
Ph.D., University of Toronto.
German Marshall Fund Marshall Memorial Fellow
I study propaganda, repression, and polarization. Previously, forecasting work at Maidan Analytics.
https://semuhi.github.io
Associate Professor in Political Behaviour at the LSE. I like campaigns and do experiments. http://www.florianfoos.net
Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Former mediator, humanitarian, government official
All views my own
#Conflict #Regimesurvival #Environment #Governance
Founder of Mongabay, a platform that delivers news & inspiration from Nature's frontline via a global network of reporters. I'm not very active on this platform. You can find me on LinkedIn and/or follow Mongabay's BlueSky account.
Ukraine correspondent. British-Lebanese conflict journalist & filmmaker. Director of The Battle For Kyiv. Interested in human rights. RTs ≠ endorsement.
https://ko-fi.com/ozkaterji
Poet: Books: Lady Wing Shot (Blue Lynx Prize, 2024), Swan Wife (Cider Press Review Editors Prize, 2022), Hillbilly Madonna (Driftwood Press, 2022)
Loved working with Driftwood so much, I became Managing Poetry Editor in 2023
www.saramoorewagner.com
South Asia and Afghanistan Correspondent, BBC News; occasionally in other parts of the world
TV journalist and documentary maker, founder @basementfilms, former editor @channel4news
Postdoc in Sociology at Utrecht University; PhD from @EUI_EU
Polarization | Cleavages | Social Networks | Political Sociology www.jonadejong.com
Ast. Prof. of Gov't, Claremont McKenna College. Interested in political reform, public policy process, public administration, electoral institutions, and political behavior. Polling at the Rose Institute of State and Local Government.
Associate Professor of Government at UT-Austin. Research on European politics, parties, elections, and voters. Close follower of everything Turkish, European and American.
PhD | senior data scientist | bayesian stats
damoncroberts.io
Reposts are not endorsements.
I do not represent anyone’s views.
Political scientist at UMBC. I study U.S. public opinion, media & politics, political psychology & the scholarship of teaching & learning.
Dad, husband, author, podcaster, Tar Heel, baltimore enthusiast
www.iananson.com
Lecturer in Politics, Cardiff University. Political Psychology. Polarization. Political Communication.
Asst Prof, University of Tennessee | PhD Notre Dame | MDiv Duke | BA Washington & Lee | American political behavior, political psychology, public opinion, trauma, local political economy 🏳️🌈 he/him #firstgen
waydemarsh.com
Freelance Multimedia Journalist
France24 West Africa Correspondent
Based in Dakar
Finance | History | Trance
Patreon http://patreon.com/isaacsamuel64
Substack https://www.africanhistoryextra.com/
Military Historian (PhD) / Ukraine book TO DIE WITH SUCH MEN (Hurst 2025) / WWII-Cold war book A QUIET COMPANY OF DANGEROUS MEN (Viking 2024) www.shannonmonaghan.com
Senior Markets Correspondent at the Financial Times. Previously insurance, finance, stocks, pensions, you get the idea. This is my real account: I never promote crypto or any other investment
Stories: https://www.ft.com/ian-smith
Contact: ian.smith@ft.com
Researcher on info ops, narratives, security-related topics, and hybrid warfare from Syria to Eurasia.
Editor, Security and Defense, Capital.
Non-Resident Fellow at DFRLab.
DRM Journal co-founder.
https://bio.link/ruslantrad
Senior International Correspondent for The Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper. Now based in London, after stops in Moscow, Beijing and the Middle East. Author of The New Cold War (the book, not the thing).
Add me to your top-secret group chats!
Wall Street Journal correspondent based in Berlin | Bulgarian abroad | georgi.kantchev@wsj.com |
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
Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam, ASCoR @ascor.bsky.social
Dark politics, Political communication & psychology, Negative campaigns, Leader personality
Editor-in-Chief at EJPR @ejprjournal.bsky.social
http://www.alessandro-nai.com
Political scientist 🇿🇦🏳️🌈
he/him
https://turnbulldugarte.com
[trying to spend less time on social media]
#ihadablackdog
https://youtu.be/XiCrniLQGYc?si=q-gQTNXfScmgtl4k
Professor of Politics - New York University - diversity, migration, Western Europe (https://sites.google.com/nyu.edu/rmaxwell)
political scientist at Columbia | MIA ✈️ NYC | tailored surveys and experiments
Professor of European Politics at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. Elections, parties, social democracy & the radical right. he/him. 🏳️🌈
Professor of Political Science, RH University of London
elections | new parties | cordons sanitaires | hate speech | militant democracy | political communication
Bitcoin and politics, media & public opinion
ERC Consolidator Grant | NWO Veni & Vidi
Political scientist at FDU, Executive Director of the FDU Poll, studying masculinities and research methods.
Directeur de Sciences Po Grenoble - UGA, Professeur de science politique à Sciences Po Grenoble et au laboratoire Pacte.
Démocratie, partis, élections, écologie politique, et plein d'autres choses.
Quantitative social scientist. AP/Lecturer at University of Reading. PhD LSE Government. I work on polarization and emotions, the radical right and gender.
www.katharinalawall.com
Professor of Political Science at Uni. Oslo. Into causal inference and statistical modeling. Posting data science projects at Estimite.com.
Emeritus Professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS, former Counselor of the Department of State, writer at the Atlantic. New book: The Hollow Crown: Shakespeare on How Leaders Rise, Rule, and Fall. (Basic Books). Book in progress: The Strategist's Catechism.
Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Russia and Eurasia Program. I cover military issues in Russia and Eurasia.
Geopolitics, Russia, China, Cyber
Chairman @silverado.org
Author of WorldOnTheBrink.com
Host GeopoliticsDecanted.com podcast
Founder Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS
Co-Founder CrowdStrike
@DAlperovitch elsewhere
Senior Fellow at European Council on Foreign Relations. #Drone politics PhD @ox.ac.uk. Previously at, and now teaching @SciencesPo.bsky.social. Writes about all things #Germany #Defence #miltech. Podcast host at @SicherheitsPod.de & LeCollimateur
Historian of Germany, colonialism, genocide studies, and the Weimar Republic. Associate Professor and proud cat dad.
https://www.uwyo.edu/history/people/faculty/blackler.html
Freelance photojournalist based in Dakar covering West and Central Africa represented by Panos Pictures shooting mainly for De Volkskrant, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Telegraph, Courrier International, NPR, The FT and stringing for AFP.
Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.
Executive Editor at Foreign Affairs (@ForeignAffairs.com)
Freelance reporter @nytimes.com Past: Jerusalem and Moscow, ex-Telegraph, AP survivor. Shortlisted for 2024 UK Press Awards Foreign Correspondent of the Year.
Covering diplomacy for NPR
Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia, International Institute for Strategic Studies. Contributing editor, Survival. Fmr Ambassador to Belarus. Film-maker. Stalking survivor. Views mine.
Filmmaker, producer, freelance journalist. Based in Istanbul, Turkey.
zeynepbilginsoy.com
I write history. Last book: LORDS OF THE DESERT; before that: A LINE IN THE SAND. Next book: THE ARENA.
More at/contact me via https://www.historythatmatters.org
Signal - jamesbarr.62
Currently reading Nussaibah Younis / Fundamentally
Host of daily podcast The News Agents. And author of Strangeland. Available at all good bookshops….
East Europe buff, recovering anthropologist, Ukraine Program Director @libmod.de Zentrum Liberale Moderne Berlin, interested in small places and big issues.
