Journalists

Rinke van den Brink (1955) is a writer who has been covering healthcare for NOS Nieuws since 2005.

Rob Jacobs is a researcher at the University of Antwerp and Aarhus University.

Robbe Vandegehuchte is a Belgian documentary producer and journalist.

Robert Schmidt is a journalist based in Strasbourg, France.

Robin van Wechem (1986) is a Dutch political scientist and journalist.

Roel Nollet is an independent journalist and documentary maker with over 10 years of experience in socially engaged documentary projects.

Roman Anin is an award-winning Russian journalist.

Roman Dobrokhotov is founder and editor-in-chief of The Insider.

Romy van der Burgh is a freelance journalist with a background in (political) philosophy. She is based in the Netherlands.

Roxanne Joseph is a data journalist from Cape Town, South Africa.

Ruben Brugnera is an independent investigative journalist, based in Brussels. 

Ruben Desiere is a Belgian director.

Rudi Bressa (Italy) is a freelance journalist and naturalist specialising in nature conservation and restoration.

Rudi Rotthier is a Belgian journalist and travel writer.

Ruth Hopkins is a freelance journalist based in South Africa and the UK. 

Ruth Vandewalle finished her master's degree Middle East Studies and Arabic in Cairo, where she is based since 2009. She started working as a news producer during the Arab Uprisings in 2011. Since then she has covered the news from all over the Middle East, producing numerous reportages for different European media.

As a documentary maker and researcher, Ruth prefers to work on social and cultural stories that show a broader perspective and a diverse image of the region. She is often on the road, working in Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Libya, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Oman & Algeria or wherever stories take her. 

As a freelance correspondent Ruth mainly works for Dutch and Belgian TV, radio and written press. She has won the Dutch journalistic 'De Tegel' award in 2014 for the reportages she made in Syria for the Dutch current affairs program 'Nieuwsuur'. 

Together with Magnum Photographer Bieke Depoorter, Ruth worked on the book 'As it may be' for which she wrote an essay about postrevolutionary Egypt and the process of Depoorter's journey through the country that started in 2011. The book was published by Aperture (US) and came out in 2017. 

Find Ruth on twitter via @ruthruthcairo
Email: ruth.vandewalle [at] gmail.com

Ryan Murdock is an Irish freelance writer regularly contributing pieces to The Shift. 

Saar Van Eyck is a Belgian documentary maker and reporter.

Sabine Prokscha (1978) is a German journalist.

Sabrina Pignedoli is an Italian investigate journalist specialised in crime and judiciary news.

Safak Timur is an Istanbul based reporter for a decade, tries to tell the world about Turkey, mostly in English,

Saljuk Mohammad (pseudonym for security reasons) is an investigative journalist specialised in money trails and corruption.

Salvatore Di Rosa (1972) is a freelance journalist, researcher and Russia expert. He writes for HUMO, Apache.be and EOS among others.

Sam Asaert (°1987) is a Belgian freelance photographer and documentary filmmaker. 

Sam Sermon is a freelance filmmaker. He works on short and full-length films.

Sam Vanoverschelde is a director and photographer that started his career in the VJ and live AV scene with the Visual Kitchen collective that also produced numerous music videos (Das Pop, Marc Moulin, Ultrasonic, Funkstörung, a.o.).

Sander Buyck is a Belgian photographer.

Sara Moreira is a Portuguese freelance journalist, web-developer, data-analyst, writer and translator.