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Christopher Allbritton

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Washington, D.C.
As seen in: CNN, CNN Underscored, Medium, MSN, Yahoo Life, Reuters, The Guardian, TIME, Yahoo Canada, Yahoo News UK and
Covers:  international relations, foreign policy, military, space, consumer technology, climate change, refugees
Freelance journalist and media consultant. My work has appeared in @Time, @Reuters, and many others. Knight '09, writer/editor. No longer active here. I dissent

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Chris Allbritton is a well-known journalist with more than 20 years of experience covering some of the biggest stories of the last decade, including the conflicts in Iraq, Lebanon, and Pakistan. His work on technology, Islam, the Middle East, U.S. foreign policy, and travel has appeared in Time Magazine, New York Magazine, Reuters, the Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press, Popular Mechanics, the New York Daily News, the San Francisco Chronicle, Newark Star-Ledger, Singapore Straight-Times,…

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The True Cost and Benefit of New York's Migrant Crisis | Worth

The True Cost and Benefit of New York's Migrant Crisis | Worth

Billions have been allocated to tackle the immigrant influx. Is it a drag on the city or an opportunity for e…

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Ukrainian Gamers Are Using Tabletop Role-Playing To Help Survive Russia's Invasion

Ukrainian Gamers Are Using Tabletop Role-Playing To Help Survive Russia's Invasion

Throughout the war-ravaged country, the fantastic and the real are entwined as people slay dragons and save t…

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The Nuke Issue: Inside Kyiv's Radiation Monitoring Stations

The Nuke Issue: Inside Kyiv's Radiation Monitoring Stations

With the nation concerned about a potential nuclear catastrophe, we take you behind-the-scenes with the peopl…

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Spirit Tripping With Colombian Shamans

Spirit Tripping With Colombian Shamans

It's a legendary drug said to provoke spiritual journeys, but my night with ayahuasca-or yagé-in the mountain…

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ISIS Guide A Mix of Travel and Terror

ISIS Guide A Mix of Travel and Terror

A British jihadist who fled the United Kingdom has penned a jaunty travel guide to the so-called Islamic Stat…

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How to Be a War Photographer and Working Mom

How to Be a War Photographer and Working Mom

Lynsey Addario is a hard woman to pin down. Since the beginning of her career as a photojournalist in her ear…

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AI is supercharging online abuse of women journalists, UN study finds

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By Christopher Allbritton
| The Media Copilot
Forty-five percent of women journalists and media workers now self-censor on social media to avoid harassment, a 50 percent jump from 2020, according to a UN Women report released April 30 ahead of World Press Freedom Day on May 3. The study, “Tipping point: Online violence impacts, manifestations and redress in the AI age,” surveyed 641 women human rights defenders, activists and journalists across 119 countries in 2025.
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AI-generated ‘Epstein Files’ podcast hits 2 million downloads, raising alarms over invisible editorial judgment

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By Christopher Allbritton
| The Media Copilot
“The Epstein Files,” an AI-generated podcast launched in February 2026 by data entrepreneur Adam Levy, has logged more than 2 million downloads by processing over 3 million documents tied to Jeffrey Epstein into a daily, self-updating show hosted by two synthetic voices.
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Spyware and AI surveillance targeting journalist on the rise, IFJ warns

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By Christopher Allbritton
| The Media Copilot
The tools used to monitor journalists — once confined to intelligence agencies — are now commercially available, widely deployed, and capable of accessing a phone without the target ever clicking a link. On World Press Freedom Day, May 3, the International Federation of Journalists put that reality at the center of its annual assessment of global press conditions, publishing findings that describe not a gradual erosion of media freedom but an accelerating one.
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