Iain Overton
(He/Him)
As seen in:
Action on Armed Violence,
The Guardian,
The Telegraph,
Los Angeles Times,
Al Jazeera English,
The Globe and Mail,
The Irish Times,
HuffPost UK,
International Business Times (U.K.),
ReliefWeb,
Scottish Daily Record
and
Covers:
War, conflict, military industrial complex, arms trade, investigative journalism
⚔ Investigating war @aoav 📗 The Price of Paradise (suicide bombers) 📘 Gun Baby Gun (guns) ☞ PhD war-reporting ☞ @bylinetimes ☞ Associate Professor @soas
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Iain Overton’s Biography
Read Full Bio →Iain Overton is an investigative journalist and the Executive Director of Action on Armed Violence (AOAV), a UK-based charity that documents and analyses armed violence worldwide. A former BBC and ITN journalist, he has reported from more than two dozen conflict-affected countries, focusing on civilian harm, military accountability, arms flows, and the political economy of violence.
Overton is a co-commissioner of a Lancet inquiry into global gun violence and health and regularly presents resea…
Iain Overton’s Journalist Portfolio
Interview
See all 7 answers →What was your first job as a journalist?
Reuters intern. My first week covered Princess Diana's death.
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Yes
How is social media changing news?
Spreading fake news, driven by bad actors