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In 2017, Wa Lone, a journalist in Myanmar for Reuters, was arrested with his colleague Kyaw Soe Oo while reporting on military abuses of the Rohingya people in Rakhine State. Their ordeal included eighteen months in prison; for their investigation, they were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 2019. At the CIJ, Wa Lone discusses their investigation, his time in prison, what it’s like to be a journalist in Myanmar, and how he finds time to write children’s stories as well as investigative journalism.

Wa Lone will deliver this year’s Gavin MacFadyen’s Memorial Lecture. He will be in conversation with our director James Harkin.

Gavin MacFadyen was CIJ’s founding director. An investigative journalist of courage and integrity, he died in October 2016.
Past Gavin MacFadyen lectures have been delivered by Anabel Hernández, Rana Ayyub, Maria Ressa and Can Dündar.