Grantee Sophie Neiman on 'Accuracy in Times of Atrocity'

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Pulitzer Center grantee Sophie Neiman will be a featured speaker in Silenced: Killing Journalists and the Fight for Truth, a yearlong lecture series at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications.

Neiman will be on campus on Tuesday, September 30, 2025. She will engage with students in various classes in the School of Public Communications, host office hours, and join faculty and students at a private luncheon.

At 6:00pm EDT, Neiman will deliver the talk “Accuracy in Times of Atrocity.” In addition to discussing her Pulitzer Center-supported reporting projects, Neiman will address the costs of impunity and violence that threaten journalists across the globe.

Her talk will also explore the trauma-informed reporting practice, how to tell difficult stories while maintaining people’s humanity, and the gendered threats facing female journalists. 

The speaking event is free and open to the public, and will be held in Room 316 of Newhouse Communications Center III.

Silenced: Killing Journalists and the Fight for Truth addresses increased global targeting of journalists. It explores the questions of why the issue of escalating dangers is not sufficiently discussed within journalism and academia, the broader consequences of this danger for the profession, and how to develop concrete strategies to better support journalists and safeguard their work.

Neiman is an award-winning freelance journalist covering politics, conflict, and human rights across East and Central Africa. Her reporting and photography have appeared in Al Jazeera, The Christian Science Monitor, New Internationalist, The New York Review of Books, and World Politics Review, among others.

Neiman has completed two Pulitzer Center-supported projects: Charting Conflict and Corruption — Uganda and the DRC and, most recently, Women and War in Eastern Congo.