Lisa dupuy
Freelance journalist
Mainly for Dutch media:
NRC newspaper, de Groene Amsterdammer current affairs weekly, Wordt Vervolgd (Amnesty International NL). Bureau Buitenland (foreign news and analysis for radio, tv), BNR radio.
Recently:
South Asia Correspondent from 2022-2026. Based in New Delhi, I covered breaking news, developing stories and personal projects in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bhutan.
Hikes for slow-journalism for the Meeting Abraham/Company of Many autonomous project on reporting in the ‘Middle East’.
Newsrooms for the online, news and newspaper fast stuff, mostly at NRC.
/ November-December 2020: interim Paris, France correspondent for Covid reporting.
/ Summer 2020: Foreign news desk Africa stories
/ Summer 2018: Foreign news desk, Africa and Asia
I’ve written about the gold trade in DRC, developments in nonproliferation, the waging of war through drones, AI, and tech, 3-D printed weaponry, shifting strategies in the ‘war on terror’, and the OSINT documentation of war crimes, ecological crimes and migration. In personal essays I’ve touched on war reporting and the praxis of using anonymous sources.
Also see the newspaper archive.
Investigative work:
Part of Lighthouse Reports team member for stories about conflict and peace, innovative storytelling.
Projects included Congo’s Gold, a multimedia investigatory project consisting of articles, website and documentary into the illegal gold mining in DR Congo, the cycle of violence in the Ituri province, wildlife conservation and smuggling into Uganda (produced across summers 2017-2018); #DutchArms investigative project on the Dutch international weapons trade and ‘Onze Missie in Afghanistan’ documentary research.
European Journalism Centre for the Emergency Journalism programme (archived), on crisis communications analysis, UGC verification. Social media reporting during News Impact Summits.
I HAVE STUDIED:
Hostile Environment Training, NL association for journalists (december 2018)
Nonproliferation and International Security MA. King’s College London (graduated January 2015). Thesis: Discussing fiction weapons - mapping the controversy of tactical nuclear weapon deployment in the Netherlands
Liberal Arts and Sciences BA in Humanities and Social Sciences, University College Maastricht (graduated February 2013). Thesis (pdf): Don’t shoot the messenger - the role of war journalists within the dynamics of conflict, resolution and peace
