Kaamil Ahmed: How To Make Readers Care

In the context of ongoing global crises and an increasingly fatigued audience, traditional reporting often struggles to generate sustained engagement. This session explores how collaboration between journalists and researchers from diverse disciplines can provide new approaches to crisis reporting. By combining investigative methods, interdisciplinary perspectives, and storytelling techniques designed to provoke reflection and emotional connection, such collaborations can prompt audiences to consider aspects of a crisis they might otherwise overlook. The discussion focuses on examples from reporting on Gaza, the Rohingya crisis, and other humanitarian contexts, highlighting how collaborative approaches can enhance the impact and reach of journalistic work.

About the Speaker

Kaamil Ahmed is a journalist with The Guardian's global development desk, where he covers issues across the Global South, including conflict, displacement, and the climate crisis. He is also the author of I Feel No Peace, a book examining the dispossession and exploitation of Myanmar’s Rohingya community.

About Us

This event is hosted by Tactical Tech as part of the *Collaborative and Investigative Journalism Initiative (CIJI). Tactical Tech is an international non-profit organisation that engages with citizens and civil-society organisations to explore and mitigate the impacts of technology on society. Exposing the Invisible is a Tactical Tech project that develops resources, training and collaborations promoting investigation as one of the most important forms of public engagement.

This event is part of the CIJI project co-funded by the European Union. 

Disclaimer:

Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.