Al Jazeera Journalism Review
Lucy Papachristou is a freelance journalist based in northwest Bosnia and Herzegovina, focusing on human rights and migration. She was previously with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and has freelanced from the Republic of Georgia and the United States.
Writer’s Articles
The media must stop obsessing about ‘economic migrants’
The use of the term ‘economic migrants’ to describe desperate people trying to find a better life for themselves and their families conceals the reality of the brutality they face at Europe’s borders.
‘Violence and degradation’ – covering refugee stories on the doorstep of the EU
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK: From changing the wet clothes of babies who have just arrived across the Aegean Sea to dodging police to interview vulnerable people who have poisoned themselves to avoid deportation - life as an aid-worker-turned-journalist in Eastern Europe.