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COVID-19 Australia: Sophie Cousins Talks About Her Experience Covering Covid-19

Sophie Cousins is a freelance journalist and a CFWIJ fellow. She usually reports on developments in South Asia and the Middle East, but has been in Australia during the coronavirus outbreak. For the past eight years of living and working abroad, she describes coming back to Australia- her home country - as a “whirlwind”. Sophie has recently received a grant from the National Geographic Society to report on how Indigenous communities across the country are protecting themselves against Covid-19.

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COVID-19 Haiti: Nadia Todres Talks About Her Experience Covering Covid-19

Nadia Todres is a documentary photographer based in Haiti. She has been documenting the coronavirus outbreak and has also been working on a personal project featuring portraits of Haitians amidst Covid-19. Nadia work is usually focused on adolescent girls in Haiti for the most part, but she also covers disasters, events, and everything happening in the country for whichever NGO or organization she is shooting.

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COVID-19 Uganda: Sumy Sadurni Talks About Her Experience Covering Covid-19

Sumy Sadurni is a freelance photojournalist based in Kampala, Uganda. She is currently documenting the Covid-19 pandemic in the country. Sumy usually reports on politics, society, gender and human rights and environment, but also works on long-term personal projects that look at different types of society and relationships. Currently Sumy is also reporting on the effects of the lockdown in the city to stop the spread of coronavirus, and shares her reporting experience with CFWIJ.

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COVID-19 US: Lisette Morales Talks About Her Experience Covering Covid-19

Lisette is a Nicaraguan-born photojournalist who currently resides in Bonita Springs, Florida. She works on stories highlighting women and since the past year, she has been focusing on a personal photo series titled “The Road to Immokalee”. The series records visual stories of the women that live and work in this farm working community. Lisette has been documenting the Covid-19 pandemic from Florida.

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COVID-19 Mexico: Flor Castañeda Talks About Her Experience Covering Covid-19

Flor Castañeda is a freelance photojournalist based in Zacatecas, Mexico. She has been covering Covid-19 through her lens but describes her experience as strange but challenging, above all. The situation around the global pandemic has made Flor rethink her way of working, the way she approaches people and portrays, and look for new stories that reflect the present conditions without falling into repetition.

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COVID-19 UK: Ana González Talks About Her Experience Covering Covid-19

Ana Gonzalez has been covering the pandemic from the United Kingdom. She had originally been working on documentaries for the BBC and other organizations out of Saudi Arabia. But when the pandemic began to intensify in the US and Europe, she chose to cut her trip short and return to London. She did so just in the nick of time as Saudi Arabia closed its own borders to fight the coronavirus.

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COVID-19 Syria: Zeina Shahla Talks About Her Experience Covering Covid-19

Syria-based journalist Zeina Shahla is covering COVID-19 from Damascus while in self-quarantine. She has been working as a freelance journalist for the last three years with a focus on social and humanitarian issues. Zeina is currently reporting for Raseef22 and BBC Arabic. She recently reported about the impact of the coronavirus on those with hearing impairment. We spoke with Zeina for an in-depth view of how she has been covering the pandemic in Syria, particularly since the country has been facing numerous challenges on various fronts.

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COVID-19 India: Suraksha Pinnu Talks About Her Experience Covering Covid-19

Suraksha Pinnu is an Indian journalist based in Bengaluru. She is associated with English daily newspaper Deccan Herald. Suraksha has been following the COVID-19 story for the paper with updates and news from Karnataka - a state in southwest India. Suraksha shared that her stories on the subject had been challenging, and specifically spoke of the lack of information coming from the government.

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COVID-19 Afghanistan: Agnieszka Pikulicka-wilczewska Talks About Her Experience Covering Covid-19

Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska is an Uzbekistan-based journalist currently reporting from Afghanistan. She has been covering COVID-19 in the country for the past week with a focus on the situation of coronavirus and its spread across the country. We got in touch with Agnieszka and asked her about the state of the global pandemic in Afghanistan and how she has been covering it so far.

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COVID-19 US: Carolyn Bick Talks About Her Experience Covering Covid-19

Carolyn Bick is a Seattle-based freelance journalist who primarily works for the South Seattle Emerald - a small, local, nonprofit publication that specifically covers South Seattle and vulnerable communities. Her work has previously appeared in several local and international publications. Her coverage of the coronavirus ranges from the impact of COVID-19 on orthodox jews to hurdles of online learning for autistic students and their parents. Carolyn has been reporting on the pandemic in a city - Seattle - that was initially hit really hard in the US.

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COVID-19 Bangladesh: Fabeha Monir Talks About Her Experience Covering Covid-19

Fabeha Monir is a Dhaka-based visual journalist. She has been documenting the coronavirus outbreak in Bangladesh. Her recent reportage on the global pandemic for Bistandsaktuelt was focused on one of the world’s largest refugee camps based in Cox Bazar with more than a million Rohingya refugees living in vulnerable conditions. We spoke with Fabeha following her coverage and here’s how she shares her experience of reporting COVID-19 in Bangladesh.

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