Janine di Giovanni
Janine di Giovanni (France)
Janine di Giovanni has been a reporter in War and post-conflict zones in Africa, the Middle East, and Balkans for 30 years. She has documented the siege of Sarajevo, the Rwandan genocide, the fall of Grozny, Chechnya, and many other historical events. She is the author of nine books, the latest, The Vanishing: Faith, loss and the twilight of Christianity in the Land of the Prophets. She teaches human rights at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs.
She has won many awards for her work, including the IWMF Courage in Journalism in 2016, two Amnesty International Prizes, the National Magazine Award, and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in New York City with her son, Luca, and is working on another book about war crimes.
Philip Crowther
Philip Crowther (Luxembourg)
Philip Crowther is the International Affiliate Reporter for the Global Media Services department at the Associated Press. He reports live for the AP’s broadcast affiliates from the biggest news events around the world. He reports fluently for national and international TV and radio stations in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, and Luxembourgish. He is based in Washington where he covers the White House and has traveled to breaking new events in the Americas but also further afield. He recently returned from the UN climate conference in Glasgow and before that the Tokyo Olympics, and Pakistan during the mass evacuation in Afghanistan.
Nii Akrofi Smart-Abbey
Nii Akrofi Smart-Abbey (Ghana)
Nii Akrofi Smart-Abbey is a freelance multimedia journalist with over a decade’s experience across media platforms. Currently based in New York City, he started his career as an intern at one of Ghana’s top rated radio stations in the capital Accra. After a month on the job, he became the station’s first intern to take on additional responsibilities as a news anchor. He has since worked as a television news anchor and producer in Ghana and the Republic of Congo as well as a writer and editor for print and online news portals in Ghana and the United States.
Maria Danilova
Maria Danilova (Russia)
Maria Danilova is a journalist at Agence France-Presse in Washington D.C. She has spent over 10 years reporting from Russia, Ukraine, and other ex-Soviet states for the Associated Press. She also covered education and foreign affairs in AP’s Washington Bureau. Her long-form stories have appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, Tablet, Columbia Journalism Review, VICE News, Rest of World, and other publications. Maria Danilova is the recipient of the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism at Columbia University and the winner of the Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award. Her first book, a children’s novel titled “Anya Here and There” is out in December.
Patrícia Vasconcellos
