War crimes 101. A workshop for journalists on documenting and memorializing war crimes in real-time: best practices and pitfalls to avoid. What exactly is a war crime? Why it’s important not to jum...
Indira Lakshmanan
Indira Lakshmanan is Global Enterprise Editor at The Associated Press. Her team does special projects, multiplatform deep dives and mission-driven explanatory journalism that illuminates problems and solutions, engages news audiences and changes lives
Previously, she was until October 2022 senior executive editor of National Geographic Media, overseeing content across print and digital platforms, including coverage of science, environment, history, culture, animals and travel.
Prior to that, she was executive editor at the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a journalism nonprofit that partners with media outlets to support ambitious, award-winning journalism on global issues. She was also the first Newmark chair in journalism ethics at the Poynter Institute, where she focused on restoring trust in journalism through transparency and accountability, and served on the PBS editorial standards committee.
As a reporter, Indira filed stories from more than 80 countries on six continents, and interviewed and profiled leaders from Hillary Clinton and Fidel Castro to Benazir Bhutto and Evo Morales. From 2016-2019, she was Washington columnist for The Boston Globe, following eight years at Bloomberg covering foreign policy and politics and traveling with secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and John Kerry. For two years, she wrote a Letter from Washington column for the International New York Times, and was a special correspondent for PBS Newshour and Politico Magazine.
Indira spent a dozen years as a foreign correspondent and bureau chief for The Boston Globe in the Balkans, Asia and Latin America. She covered the Bosnian War and the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan; investigated links between rebels and officials in the Philippines; and embedded with sea pirates in Southeast Asia, Maoist rebels in Nepal, and Khmer Rouge holdouts in Cambodia. Her reporting exposed child labor in Bolivia, illegal logging in Brazil, corruption in China, and helped end the incarceration of innocent children in Nepal.
Indira started her career on the foreign desk at National Public Radio, and has guest-hosted numerous NPR live current affairs programs.
Transparency is an oft-cited solution to the trust crisis, but what does that mean in practice? Must journalists document all aspects of their work - or does that risk creating journalism products tha...
At long last, it's become clear in media and technology circles that upgrading our information supply, while crucial, is not enough to solve the misinformation crisis. We also need to upgrade ourselve...
In a complex media ecosystem, news organizations have a responsibility to not just tell the public what's going on -- but clear up what is true and what isn’t, to put the story in context and to exp...
At long last, it's become clear in media and technology circles that upgrading our information supply, while crucial, is not enough to solve the misinformation crisis. We also need to upgrade ourselve...
Some of the highest-profile climate change reporting in recent years has delivered a gloom-and-doom message, turning off audiences who have come to believe it's too late to do anything. Images of star...
An unprecedented degree of lies and obfuscation – including from the highest levels of governments - has challenged traditional newsroom norms of fairness and balance. Journalists have had to rethin...
In an era when politicians around the world are promoting false narratives and accuse anyone who fact-checks them of being "fake news," it is a journalist’s responsibility to continuously point out ...
While the news industry struggles to find a sustainable revenue model, newsrooms including Reuters and some promising digital startups have announced mass layoffs in recent months. Meanwhile, nonprofi...
#ijf19talk by Maria Ressa. Moderated by Indira Lakshmanan. Disinformation and democracy: how information operations and new gatekeepers have weakened democracies around the world. Case study: the P...
The increasingly complex subject of ethics cuts across every region and across all sectors – business, government, sport, music, tech – everything. This panel will look at how we cover ethical iss...
In the last year, foundations, universities and other institutions answered the call to build solutions for global information disorders. How are these initiatives working together? How are they addre...
Help define the moral imperatives that should be guiding media and platforms' decisions
Both platforms and media helped get us into the mess we are in -- and before we can expect them to get us out we need to help them write the principles that should guide their decisions on product des...
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