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James Harkin @James__Harkin

Journalist, analyst, forecaster. Director of CIJ. Writes for GQ, Harper's etc. Books Hunting Season, Niche, Cyburbia etc. jamesharkin@protonmail.com

Joined February 2009
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‘Scamming’ landlord libel claim thrown out as Lammy promises legislation on SLAPPs! Our former fellow @Coramazov had a personal libel case against him. The same High Court judge also brought an end to a wider libel claim brought against Kehoe, Mill Media founder Joshi Herrmann and Mill Media itself. pressgazette.co.uk/news/mill…

'Scamming' landlord libel claim thrown out as Lammy promises legislation on SLAPPs

A County Court judgment for £10,000 made against a Mill Media reporter has been thrown out after a judge ruled it was an "abuse of process".

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My latest, Confessions of a Futurologist: plough.com/en/topics/life/wo…

Confessions of a Futurologist | Plough

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Amid the internet shutdown and broad-based civil disobedience in Iran, re-upping my LRB essay on a previous rebellion there, whose lessons remain relevant: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v32/n23/…

James Harkin · Cyber-Con: Tweet for the CIA!

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Re-upping my long investigated read of 2020 for @BritishGQ @GQMagazine on the Stakeknife imbroglio: gq-magazine.co.uk/politics/a…

Stakeknife: unmasking the infamous IRA mole

For years during the worst of The Troubles, Freddie Scappaticci was chief rat and rat catcher-in-chief, at once the most notorious IRA ‘nutter’, tasked with seeking and silencing moles, and himself...

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Great to hear that AbdulRahman Farhoud, aki Rahmani and the star of my GQ investigation "The Songbird of Syria", is now back in Syria - and singing once again gq-magazine.co.uk/article/sy…

The incredible story behind the Syrian protest singer everyone thought was dead

In 2011, a Syrian protest anthem captured the world's attention after being recorded on a phone and uploaded to YouTube. Now, GQ exclusively reveals the story of the real hero behind the song that...

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Has a Breakthrough Happened in the Agonizing Saga of Austin Tice? By @JamesHarkin who has been following the Tice story closely from the beginning. Hard to believe that Assad would order Tice's killing, when he was so valuable, but who knows. politi.co/41GPT8U via @politico

Has a Breakthrough Happened in the Agonizing Saga of Austin Tice?

New information about the freelance journalist’s captivity challenges the narrative that he is still alive.

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My long investigation for Politico magazine in the US into the disappearance of missing American journalist Austin Tice, just published: politico.com/news/magazine/2…

Has a Breakthrough Happened in the Agonizing Saga of Austin Tice?

New information about the freelance journalist’s captivity challenges the narrative that he is still alive.

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Farewell Gwen Robinson, excellent journalist and editor, and lovely, generous friend: ft.com/content/ec0bbb63-50b2…

Gwen Robinson, FT foreign correspondent and editor, 1960-2025

The Asia expert was known for her network of contacts, intrepid reporting and ability to handle big egos

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21 Jan 2025
The Blues Brothers (1980) - MEGA THREAD The adventures of 'Joliet' Jake and Elwood Blues are legendary, on and off screen. So, put your sunglasses on and let's celebrate this 80s comedy classic with 16 of my favourite moments. Ray Charles wants you to Shake a Tailfeather. 1/16
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As journalists and family await news from Damascus's labyrinth of prisons on missing journalist Austin Tice, reposting my 2014 investigation for Vanity Fair which helped prove where he was: archive.vanityfair.com/artic…. Let's hope he makes it out!

EVAPORATED | Vanity Fair | May 2014

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Final thought - can anyone get us news now about Austin Tice?
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This is one of the most beautiful videos to come out of #Syria recently!
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This is era defining news. Congratulations to the newly free Syrian people. Let's hope that, for the first time in their nation's history, they can progress to sovereignty and democracy without foreign interference of any kind
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Deeply topical since the fall of Hama an hour ago, my long read investigation for @BritishGQ about Hama and Qashoush, the Songbird of Syria: gq-magazine.co.uk/article/sy…

The incredible story behind the Syrian protest singer everyone thought was dead

In 2011, a Syrian protest anthem captured the world's attention after being recorded on a phone and uploaded to YouTube. Now, GQ exclusively reveals the story of the real hero behind the song that...

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We're really looking forward to seeing everyone next week at Source! Tickets are now SOLD OUT. If you would like to join the waitlist please email info@tcij.org
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Be at Source!, our iconoclastic biennial CIJ Logan Symposium, on November 14/15 at the Barbican in London. tcij.org/logan-symposium/sou… Everyone else will! @cijournalism @protectsources @gijn @CJR @pressfreedom @ICFJ @ICIJorg

Source!

The Centre for Investigative Journalism present Source! the 10 year anniversary edition of the CIJ Logan Symposium. Investigative journalism is in flux. Journalists need sources, but in the digital...

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Hezbollah did better when it wasn't relying on mobiles or pagers: see my look at the 2006 war @TheRegister. theregister.com/2009/02/23/j…

War, Web 2.0 and the Fail Loop

From Hezbollah to Twitter

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Investigative journalism is expensive. As the cost of paying for it moves from the audience to big foundations, many of whom enjoy close relationships with Western states, how does that change the tone and rationale of what we produce? Is there a danger that we end up doing the bidding of those in power? @James__Harkin leads a conversation with @kennardmatt and Frances Stonor Saunders
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My OpEd in tomorrow's @theipaper on Operation Kenova, official secrecy, and how it might take decades to get to the truth about Stakeknife's role in the Northern Irish Troubles. inews.co.uk/opinion/decades-…

It will take decades to get to the truth about Stakeknife

The Kenova report has revealed British security state’s destructive addiction to secrecy

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Thanks, Eliot. Crazy indeed!
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The story behind this is crazy, to say the least gq-magazine.co.uk/article/sy…
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