When your daily job is reporting the suffering of others, what’s the price you pay yourself? Why are so many journalists drawn to conflict despite the clear impact on their own lives? What are the u...
Richard Colebourn
Richard Colebourn is the BBC’s Europe Bureaux Editor. He’s responsible for leading the BBC’s reporters, producers and camera crews based in 12 capitals across Europe. Before moving to Brussels in 2018 he was the Middle East Bureaux Editor for five years and previously was a BBC producer in the Middle East, in Afghanistan and Pakistan and on BBC TV news and radio programmes in London.
Events IJF 2024
The Iraqi Army, with western military backing, is currently engaged in a fierce battle against the so-called Islamic State inside Iraq’s second biggest city, Mosul. And the United States is right no...
Reporting on the Israel-Palestine conflict is possibly one of the more demanding of journalistic assignments. The elements which come into play are multifarious: cultural, political, linguistic, eco...
Working in and reporting on war zones. What's changed? Organised in association with Medici Senza Frontiere.
Faster, farther, cheaper and certainly no safer, the men and women who cover world events are expected to do more with less, as technology and the news industry's economic struggles have changed what ...
Susan Dabbous: "On April 3, 2013 I was kidnapped in Syria, along with three other Italian journalists, by an al-Qaeda linked terrorist group, in Ghassanieh, a Christian village outside Lattakia. We we...
