Nick Raistrick
UK based journalist & communications consultant
UK based journalist & communications consultant
Nick is a freelance journalist and communications consultant specialising in human rights, disinformation and conflict sensitive reporting. He was Africa Resilience Editor at IWPR, where he wrote a handbook on health disinformation, as well as writing and producing podcast series on disinformation and human rights in Nigerian and Kenya. He spent almost a decade at the BBC, where he ended up as journalism training editor at BBC Media Action, working on a wide range of humanitarian media projects in Syria, Somalia, Nigeria, Rwanda and a number of former Soviet Union countries. He’s also written journalism training material for the UN, DfID, Internews, FCDO and USAID.
IWPR project uses open source intelligence and investigative techniques to probe some of the most prevalent fake news stories.