Annette Ekin is a former senior editor at Al Jazeera English online, specialising in long-form reporting and narrative storytelling.
Over 15 years as a journalist and features editor, Annette has worked with reporters around the world to develop ambitious, character-driven human stories, focusing on reporting rigour, narrative craft and powerful visual formats. At Al Jazeera, she led “Slow Journalism” - long reads, essays, and special series - and worked closely with the Africa desk. She helped shape the website's sustained human-focused coverage of Israel's war on Gaza.
Most recently, she ran a series about mothers around the world raising children in impossible circumstances; reported essays by an imprisoned writer about taking on the US prison system from the inside; and a long read about ‘zama zama’ gold miners in South Africa fighting to survive in an abandoned underground mine after police cut off their only lifeline to the surface.
She edited "Hamshika’s Puzzle," supported by Journalismfund Europe and nominated for a 2026 European Press Prize and in 2025 led the team that live-blogged the start of the Srebrenica genocide on its 30th anniversary.
As a reporter, she covered the assassination of veteran Al Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh, the Rohingya genocide in 2017, and the 2015 Nepal earthquake as part of an International Emmy Award-nominated team.
A graduate of Columbia Journalism School, Annette has reported from India, Bangladesh, the US, Japan, South Korea, Belgium and beyond. She has edited for the Guardian US and EU science magazine Horizon and been published in outlets such as the Wall Street Journal and Roads & Kingdoms. She now leads editorial strategy and content at a Brussels communications agency.
