Caitlin Chandler is a longform journalist based in Berlin, Germany

Caitlin is a longform journalist and writer covering migration, security and human rights (among other topics). At present she's a member of the Lighthouse Reports Surveillance Newsroom and teach journalism as an Adjunct Faculty member at the Council on International Education Exchange (CIEE) in Berlin. In 2023, she received a Robert B. Silvers Foundation Grant for Work in Progress. Previous grants/awards: International Women's Media Foundation fellowship (2020); Investigative Journalism for Europe cross-border grant (as part of a team); EU Migration Media Award (2019), European Cross Border grant from Journalismfund as part of a team, International Reporting Project Africa Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution fellowship on Sudan, the German Otto Brenner Preis for investigative reporting (as part of a team), and an Anne LaBastille Writing Residency for creative nonfiction. Her story for CJR, The Doctors vs #MeToo, was highlighted on Longreads and Longform and my work appeared on the cover of The Washington Post Magazine. Co-creator of opensecuritydata.eu; formerly a senior editor at Africa Is A Country and in-progress M.F.A. candidate in nonfiction at Randolph College in Virginia.

Caitlin Chandler

Basic information

Name
Caitlin Chandler
Title
Writer, investigative journalist
Expertise
migration, security and human rights
Country
Germany
City
Berlin

Supported projects

Facing the Future

  • Human Rights
  • Justice
  • Politics
  • Security

BRUSSELS - This investigation seeks to uncover the state of facial recognition technology in Europe. The journalists obtained leaked internal European Union documents that reveal law enforcement is lobbying to create a network of national police facial recognition databases.