Nabeelah Shabbir

Nabeelah Shabbir is a British-Pakistani freelance journalist and Deputy Director of the Information Integrity Initiative (III), a project of TheNerve.

She is co-author of a series of reports at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford about digital-born news media, innovation in news media in the Global South and the impact of the Panama Papers investigation three years on.

At The Guardian, Nabeelah shared a British Journalism Award with the “Keep it in the Ground” team, which focused its reporting on fossil fuel divestment and climate change, in 2015. She was also a “European Young Journalist” of the year for her writing in Kosovo in 2008.

Nabeelah is also the former Deputy Director of Research at the Washington DC-based International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), where she investigated topics such as tackling disinformation in newsrooms; journalism after the pandemic and online violence against women journalists.