Lauren Bohn

Lauren Bohn is The GroundTruth Project’s former editor-at-large and Middle East correspondent, based in Istanbul. Previously, she was a columnist for Foreign Policy magazine and a Fulbright fellow in Egypt. She’s the co-founder of Foreign Policy Interrupted, a start-up incubator and fellowship program dedicated to changing the ratio and getting more women miked and bylined. She’s also the co-founder of SchoolCycle, a United Nations Foundation initiative to provide bikes to girls in Malawi so they can get to school more quickly and safely.

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Navigator

Writing tips from Roy Peter Clark

This column originally appeared in Navigator, GroundTruth’s newsletter for early-career journalists. You can subscribe to Navigator here. Roy Peter Clark...

Children peer through the fence during distribution hours in Zaatari refugee camp on January 18, 2016. (Christopher Lee/GroundTruth)

Navigator

How ‘moral injury’ takes a toll on journalists

This column originally appeared in Navigator, GroundTruth’s newsletter for early-career journalists. You can subscribe to Navigator here. For the last...

Announcements

Launching Report for America’s dream team

Last week, 23-year-old Alexandra Watts drove through the Mississippi Delta and tuned into NPR’s Mississippi Public Broadcasting station...

A Sisi banner hangs in Cairo. After a democratic election in 2012 that put the Muslim Brotherhood in power, Sisi led a coup that overthrew the democratically-elected president, and banned the Muslim Brotherhood and pro-democracy demonstrators. (Roger Anis/GroundTruth)

Rights

Egyptian citizens, journalists face worsening restrictions on expression under Sisi regime

In 2011, when Egypt was pulsating with post-revolution possibility, I received a grant from the Pulitzer Center to...

A supporter of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi campaigns for the president in Tahrir Square ahead of the election today. (Roger Anis/GroundTruth)

War and Peace

Egypt’s revolutionaries grieve ahead of Sisi re-election

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It’s in...

Marielle Franco, one of a handful of black women in Brazilian politics, was shot and killed in what police are calling an assassination. (Leonardo Coehlo/The GroundTruth Project)

Democracy

Remembering Marielle Franco, a black Brazilian trailblazer

Almost two years ago, GroundTruth fellow Catherine Osborn and I stood in the middle of Rio de Janeiro’s...

Kim Wall's reporting on the Marshall Islands was published by Mashable this week. She worked on the project in 2014 and 2015 with her colleagues Coleen Jose and Jan Hendrik Hinzel. (Photo by Coleen Jose)

Environment

Remembering Kim Wall and celebrating her last stories from the Marshall Islands

Last weekend, I spent a couple hours out at sea in Turkey reading my dear friend May Jeong’s...

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson shakes hands with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Ankara, Turkey, on February 16, 2018. (U.S. State Department)

Democracy

Tillerson’s Turkey trip and America’s waning influence

When United States diplomats travel to foreign countries and meet with high-level officials, it’s standard practice — and...

Kubra Golge (pictured) says her husband, Serkan, has been held on bogus charges by the Turkish government. (Lauren Bohn/GroundTruth)

Democracy

US Secretary of State visits Turkey amid rising tensions between the two countries

ISTANBUL, Turkey - When U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrives here today, it will mark a particularly...

Girls in Chisec, Guatemala, receive bicycles from an initiative started by GroundTruth's Lauren Bohn, SchoolCycle. Bicycles allow girls to more easily travel to school, and give them autonomy over their own movement. (Lauren Bohn/GroundTruth)

Rights

Bicycles give poor girls autonomy, but a decision in D.C. could change that

One blistering Guatemalan afternoon in February, 86-year-old Candelaria gathered with three generations of women in her family to...

Middle East

What has life under ISIS rule been like for women?

On Monday, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared the defeat of ISIS in Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city...

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