Anthony Borden

IWPR Executive Director

US & NL Governance Committees; Finance Committee; Nominations Committee

Anthony Borden

Tony is the founder of the Institute for War & Peace Reporting. He was editor of the highly regarded IWPR magazine War Report from 1991-98 and was commended for the “Best Online Journalism Service” in the 1999 NetMedia journalism awards, for IWPR's reporting on the Kosovo crisis. He has worked with the UK's Department for International Development assessing media programs in post-communist countries. He has received a MacArthur Foundation NGO research fellowship to study media and conflict at King’s College, London. He has worked as an editor and writer for Harper's, The Nation, The American Lawyer and HarperCollins, and contributed to The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Newsweek, The International Herald Tribune and numerous other publications. He comments regularly on conflict and media issues for the BBC, CNN and other media. Tony is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. 

Ukraine War Diary by Anthony Borden

Reporting from Ukraine by IWPR founder and executive director.

Stories by the Author

The Filipovic Story

IWPR reveals the extraordinary background to Miroslav Filipovic's award-winning story on Kosovo atrocities

6 Sep 05

Milosevic's Fate in the Balance

Talks are underway for the surrender of Slobodan Milosevic amid a tense stand-off at his residence in Belgrade and a mounting power struggle between Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica and Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic.

6 Sep 05

Breaking the Silence

The verdict against Filipovic has criminalised the truth. But the case has also helped force open the issue of war crimes in Serbia, and free speech, in the end, never loses.

6 Sep 05

Serbia's Democratic Revival

Miroslav Filipovic, the Serbian journalist jailed for exposing human rights abuses, won a joyous early release. But his rehabilitation, and that of Serbian democracy, will take time.

6 Sep 05

IWPR Launches New Women's Reporting Programme

In launching our Women’s Reporting and Dialogue Programme, IWPR looks at a different kind of frontline - the battle women in Islamic countries are waging to define new rights in changing times.

19 May 05

Chaos in the Iraqi Media

The United States risks losing a major opportunity to forge an open media in the Middle East.

22 Feb 05

Central Asia Conflict Fears

Speakers at an IWPR conference in Almaty warn that outbreaks of violence across Central Asia could escalate into a regional conflict.

21 Feb 05
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