August • 2017
Simona, brought us an amazing story from South Sudan. We ended up canceling the project for internal reasons. But we highly recommend her.
Simona F.
Erbil, Iraq
1 review$500 - $1000 / Day
About
Simona Foltyn is an independent journalist, writer and videographer based in Dubai. Her work focuses on in-depth coverage of armed conflict, human rights, social justice and development in East Africa and more recently the Middle East. Between 2014 and 2017, she extensively covered the conflict in South Sudan. She has also reported on current events in Ethiopia, Sudan and Iraq. Simona's written work has been published in the Guardian, Foreign Policy, the Washington Post and the German weekly Die Zeit, among others. A multimedia journalist who shoots, produces and edits her own footage, her reports have been aired on France24, Deutsche Welle, Al Jazeera English and PBS. Simona holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs from Georgia State University and a Masters in Public Affairs from Princeton University. She speaks Slovak, German, English, French, Spanish and Arabic. Before turning to journalism, she worked for the United Nations in Sudan and South Sudan and the Boston Consulting Group in the Gulf.
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Iraq's Mosul: Rebuilding a city fractured by sectarian mistrust
The battle for Iraq's second city of Mosul is officially over and the Islamic State group is defeated, according to the army. But the city is still seeing sporadic suicide attacks. Meanwhile, new challenges lie ahead: clearing the rubble and defusing mines before rebuilding homes and infrastructure. But the most difficult task of all will be to repair a society fractured by sectarian mistrust
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Produced for PBS Newshour
South Sudan faces famine, potential genocide in civil war
The country of South Sudan gained its independence from Sudan in 2011, but two years later, this new nation of 11 million people became embroiled in civil war. The conflict has led to a man-made famine, accusations of mass rape and ethnic cleansing, and a massive refugee crisis. NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Simona Foltyn went to South Sudan to report on the growing humanitarian crisis.
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Produced for Vice News
The Unwinnable War - Behind the front lines with rebels in South Sudan
This is an in-depth feature of 2,700 words offering a rare look behind rebel lines in South Sudan's Equatoria region, which became the country's main theatre of war in 2013. At that point, very few journalists had managed to gain access there. For three days, I & my colleague Jason Patinkin (who took the photographs for the story) embedded with South Sudan's rebels to tell this story.
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4.0 Produced for NBCUniversal
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