Priyanka Shankar

Priyanka Shankar is a freelance reporter at aljazeera.com

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Priyanka specialises in migration, human rights and Europe's evolving relationships with Asia. Previously, she worked at Reuters in Bangalore, India, focusing on US and Asian business news. Priyanka is based between Belgium and India, and her work has appeared in publications including the Guardian, El País, the Times, Lighthouse Reports, Deutsche Welle and Nikkei Asia. She was part of the Al Jazeera English team which won the Edward R Murrow Award in 2024 for its breaking news coverage of Israel's war on Gaza. Her cross-border investigation on a team with five other journalists into a shadow banking system along an irregular migration route garnered an honourable mention at the Trace Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2024.

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