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Alison Killing | |
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.jpg) Killing in 2024 | |
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| Alma mater | King's College, Cambridge (BA) Oxford Brookes (MA) |
| Employer | Financial Times |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (2021) |
Alison Killing is a British architect, urban designer, and journalist specializing inopen-source intelligence.[1][2] She received thePulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 2021.
Killing was born inNewcastle upon Tyne, and obtained her bachelor's degree fromKing's College, Cambridge in 2002 before receiving her master's degree fromOxford Brookes in 2004.[3][1][4]
Killing worked as an architect in London and Rotterdam, working forBuro Happold andKees Christiaanse before starting her own studio, Killing Architects, in 2010.[1][3]
While continuing her work as an architect, Killing began working as a journalist, working with Buzzfeed on an investigation about how Instagram stories can facilitate increased police surveillance.[5]
Killing was part of the team that produced a series of innovative articles that usedsatellite images, 3D architectural models, and in-person interviews to exposeChina’s vast infrastructure for detaining hundreds of thousands of Muslims in itsXinjiang region and won the 2021Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.[6][7][8][9]
In 2023, Killing joinedFinancial Times as a visual investigations reporter.[10] She has written about the "unravelling" of theNeom development, the murdering of Ukrainian prisoners of war, and theIsrael-Gaza war.[11] In 2025, Killing was awarded twoAmnesty International Media Awards for her work on extremist settlers in theWest Bank and the Russian abduction of Ukrainian children.[12]
Killing is aTED Fellow.[4]
Killing lives inRotterdam.
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