On Assignment

In this episode of On Assignment, set against the backdrop of Sudan’s civil war, Reuters journalists Nafisa Eltahir, Suzanne Vanhooymissen and Reade Levinson investigate what happened during the assault on al‑Fashir, a besieged city in Darfur. They reveal how they verified videos filmed by fighters and matched them with survivor testimony to reconstruct events in their documentary Death in Darfur: 3 days of horror caught on camera.

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The red carpet. The stars. The parties. But behind the glamour and extravagance, it’s blood, sweat and tears. This week, Reuters showbiz reporter and Cannes veteran Rollo Ross takes us behind the scenes of the world’s most famous film festival.

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Reuters journalists received  Pulitzer prizes for investigations into Meta and Trump's campaign of retribution, and were finalists for Illustrated Reporting and Breaking News Photography. We talk to the journalists and editors about the obstacles they overcame on their assignments in order to bring these stories to light.

 Beat Reporting - Jeff Horwitz and Engen Tham of Reuters

National Reporting - Staff of Reuters, notably Ned Parker, Linda So, Peter Eisler and Mike Spector

Illustrated Reporting (Finalists) - Adolfo Arranz, Poppy McPherson, Devjyot Ghoshal and Han Huang of Reuters

Breaking News Photography (Finalists) - Photography Staff of Reuters

 

On Assignment - Meta’s flirty chatbot and the man who never made it home 

On Assignment - Tracking Trump’s retribution targets

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Forty years after the world’s worst nuclear disaster, Chornobyl remains a place suspended in time — and newly exposed to danger. In this episode of On Assignment, Reuters correspondent Dan Peleschuk takes us inside the abandoned towns, sealed control rooms and vast confinement arc built to contain the radioactive remains of reactor four.

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Joshua McElwee, who covers the Vatican for Reuters, has just returned from the pope's 10‑day journey across Africa. Joshua walks us through what it's like to cover America's first pope (Joshua is also a Chicago native) as he comes under increasing fire from the president. Plus, what it’s really like inside the Vatican and on the papal plane.

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