2025 Peter Stursberg Foreign Correspondents Lecture: Human reporting from Sudan and beyond – a remedy for selective empathy?
Thursday, November 13, 2025 from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
- In-person event
- Atrium (2nd Floor), Richcraft Hall, Carleton University
- 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6
- Cost: Free
- Contact
- journalism@carleton.ca
2025 Peter Stursberg Foreign Correspondents Lecture
Human reporting from Sudan and beyond — a remedy for selective empathy?
featuring Yousra Elbagir, Sky News Africa Correspondent
“As journalists, we aren’t just tasked with presenting facts and figures but should be making the world a smaller place. Through reporting on my country’s revolution and ignored war, I have learnt that human reporting is a powerful tool to foster compassion in an increasingly divided world. I have taken this with me wherever I report and will share it through anecdotes and some valuable hard-earned lessons.”
About Yousra Elbagir
Yousra Elbagir is currently the Sky News Africa correspondent covering major events and stories across the continent, from natural disasters to civil unrest and conflict. Most notably, her reports from the frontline of Sudan’s war have uncovered the scale of devastation in the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis. But she’s also provided exclusive live coverage that captured the fall of Eastern Congo’s regional capital Goma to M23. Elbagir has previously reported for Channel 4 News, the Financial Times and was an international correspondent for Vice News on HBO.