Meet the team

Phil Chetwynd, Global News Director, France
Phil Chetwynd has overall responsibility for AFP's editorial strategy and the agency's 1,700 journalists. Since joining the agency in 1996, he has reported from some 20 countries and held roles including global editor-in-chief and chief editor of the Asia-Pacific region.

Grégoire Lemarchand, Deputy Global News Director, Digital Strategy Director, Communications Director, France
Grégoire Lemarchand is responsible for digital strategy at AFP. He previously led AFP's global digital investigation network from 2017 to 2024 and was responsible for its social media strategy for more than a decade from 2012 to 2024.

Julie Charpentrat, Digital Investigations Editor-in-Chief, France
Julie Charpentrat leads AFP’s global digital investigation team. She joined the Digital Investigations team in 2019 as fact-checker in charge of health topics before becoming deputy editor-in-chief. She previously worked as a business reporter in AFP’s offices in New York and San Francisco.

Sophie Nicholson, Digital Investigations Deputy Editor-in-Chief, France
Sophie Nicholson manages the global digital investigation team and the development of AFP’s online training platform and video series. Sophie previously worked as a correspondent in Mexico City, covering Latin America. She started her career in radio and television at the BBC in London.

Marie Bohner, Head of Development and Partnerships, Digital Investigations, France
Marie Bohner works on the development of the global digital investigation team. She manages partnerships with peer digital investigation organisations. She coordinated the CrossCheck France project in 2017 on behalf of First Draft, and was their global head of partnerships until 2021.

Elodie Martinez, Global Digital Investigations Training Coordinator, France
Elodie Martinez became the global digital investigation training coordinator in 2022. Previously, she was head of digital investigation for Latin America and Spain and prior that head of AFP's Spanish online news and social media team.

Natalie Handel, Digital Investigations Video Coordinator, France
Natalie Handel oversees digital investigation video production. She joined AFP in 2009, first working for a decade as a video reporter in the United States and France before switching to text reporting on science, health and environment. She joined the digital investigation team in 2021.

Cristina Abellan-Matamoros, Digital Investigations Video Journalist, France
Cristina Abellan-Matamoros works as a video journalist for the digital investigations team. She produces videos mainly in Spanish and Portuguese but also assists with production in English and French. She joined AFP in 2019 as a producer for AFPTV Live. Before that she worked for Euronews and Storyful. She joined the digital investigations team in 2023.

Myriam Adam, Digital Investigations Video Journalist, France
Myriam Adam is a video journalist with the digital investigation team in Paris. She previously worked as a video journalist on general news in France, covering events like the Covid-19 pandemic and the Yellow Vest protests, as well as in Nicosia covering all the news from the MENA region.

Manon Jacob, Climate Digital Investigation Reporter, USA
Manon Jacob joined the US digital investigation team in January 2020 and started focusing solely on climate and environment mis/disinformation in 2024. She was previously a reporter in France, Belgium and Poland for AFP, Politico and Reuters.

Julie Pacorel, Health Digital Investigations Reporter, France
Julie Pacorel specialises in mis/disinformation about health issues. Before joining the team in 2022, she worked for AFP in Marseille where she covered politics, crime and biodiversity in the Mediterranean region. She previously worked as a freelance journalist in South America for French media such as Libération.

Jacqueline Pietsch, Technical Project Manager, Digital Investigations, France
Jacqueline Pietsch oversees technical developments for the team. Since joining AFP in 1996, she has worked in a myriad of roles, disciplines and countries, including head of AFP’s English-language TV production, correspondent in the Netherlands and video journalist responsible for Southeast Asia.

Denis Teyssou, AFP Medialab Manager, France
Denis Teyssou is the innovation manager of EU-funded Horizon project vera.ai (2022-2025) and the founder of the InVID-WeVerify verification plugin, which resulted from previous EU projects InVID (2016-2018) and WeVerify (2018-2021).

Bertrand Goupil, Solution Architect Engineer, AFP Medialab, France
Bertrand Goupil is the main technical lead for the InVID-WeVerify verification plugin, participating within the AFP Medialab on EU-funded projects (InVID, WeVerify, vera.ai) against disinformation and creating tools for fact-checkers.

Valentin Porcellini, Software Engineer, AFP Medialab, France
Valentin Porcellini designs and maintains AFP Medialab's tools and participates in the EU-funded project vera.ai.

While we endeavour to be as transparent as possible about our staff, some countries and environments are more hostile than others when it comes to journalism. For that reason, some of the journalists on our Africa team will not be named below to protect their safety. 

Nina Lamparski, Head of Digital Investigations for Africa, France
Nina Lamparski leads the Africa digital investigation team. She joined AFP from the BBC as foreign correspondent in Vienna in 2015. Her career, which spans digital media, radio and print, has taken her to Sydney, Phnom Penh, London and Brussels.

Gaëlle Faure, Deputy Head of Digital Investigations for Africa, France
Gaëlle Faure has been the deputy head of the Africa digital investigation team since 2020. She previously worked in editing and reporting roles for French and US media organisations, with a focus on investigation and verification.

Brett Horner, Senior Africa Editor, South Africa
Brett Horner joined AFP in 2019 and helps to oversee AFP’s pan-African digital investigation operation. A seasoned journalist with 20 years’ experience, he was previously the editor-in-chief of two regional newspapers and a news website in South Africa.

Camille Malplat, Editor, France
Camille Malplat is the editor for French-speaking countries in Africa. Before joining the digital investigation team in late 2023, she worked as deputy bureau chief in Lagos (Nigeria) and as a general news reporter in Libreville (Gabon), reporting extensively from countries across central and western Africa for AFP.

Oluseyi Awojulugbe, Reporter, Nigeria
Oluseyi Awojulugbe reports on mis/disinformation about Africa from Nigeria. Before joining AFP, she was a senior analyst with SBM Intelligence, a local consulting firm. She has also worked as a fact-checker with Africa Check and as an economy correspondent for TheCable newspaper in Nigeria.

Emilie Beraud, Reporter, France
Emilie Beraud reports on mis/disinformation in Africa. Before joining AFP in 2022, she worked on culture and health as a reporter at France Télévisions. She also worked at the Paris desk of France 24 covering international news from Lebanon, Tunisia and Sudan.

Tendai Dube, Reporter, South Africa
Tendai Dube has covered mis/disinformation in southern Africa for AFP since 2018. She previously worked in international newsrooms for CNBC Africa and Reuters.

Tolera Fikru Gemta, Reporter, Ethiopia
Tolera Fikru Gemta reports on mis/disinformation in Ethiopia. Before joining AFP, Tolera worked as a senior fact-checker at PesaCheck.

Suy Kahofi, Reporter, Ivory Coast
Suy Kahofi joined AFP’s Abidjan bureau in 2022. He has spent almost two decades working for national and international media in Ivory Coast and Africa. A former multimedia broadcast journalist for BBC Afrique, he began debunking mis/disinformation in 2016.

Mary Kulundu, Reporter, Kenya
Mary Kulundu covers mis/disinformation in East African countries. A former reporter for top news websites in Kenya, she holds a Master's degree in Digital Journalism and has conducted research on how Kenyan newsrooms handle mis/disinformation during breaking news.

Monique Ngo Mayag, Reporter, Senegal
Monique Ngo Mayag has been covering mis/disinformation for AFP since 2019, first in Gabon and now Senegal. Prior to joining AFP, Monique spent nearly a decade working as a reporter for Cameroonian private media before moving into digital investigation for an online news site.

Samad Uthman, Reporter, Nigeria
Samad Uthman reports on mis/disinformation about Africa from Nigeria. Before joining AFP, he worked as an investigative multimedia journalist at TheCable newspaper in Nigeria.

While we endeavour to be as transparent as possible about our staff, some countries and environments are more hostile than others when it comes to journalism. For that reason, some of the journalists on our Asia-Pacific team will not be named below to protect their safety.

Rachel Blundy, Head of Digital Investigations for Asia-Pacific, Hong Kong
Rachel Blundy leads the Asia-Pacific digital investigation team. Originally from London, she worked in various reporting and digital production roles on newspapers in the United Kingdom.

Charlotte Mason, Deputy Head of Digital Investigations for Asia-Pacific, Hong Kong
Charlotte Mason helps lead the Asia-Pacific team. She joined AFP in 2018 as a reporter and editor in Paris, before covering mis/disinformation in Africa, Europe and North America. She has previously written for various media in the United Kingdom and France.

Jake Soriano, Deputy Head of Digital Investigations for Asia-Pacific, Hong Kong
Jake Soriano is deputy head of the digital investigations for the Asia-Pacific team. He joined AFP’s Manila bureau as a digital investigation reporter in 2019. He previously worked on fact-checking projects in the Philippines.

Sophia Xu, Digital Training Manager for Asia-Pacific, Hong Kong
Sophia Xu leads AFP's digital journalism training programme in Asia-Pacific. She joined AFP in 2020 as a digital investigation editor. She has trained hundreds of journalists and students in digital journalism at media conferences and universities across Asia.

Sumit Dubey, Editor, India
Sumit Dubey leads the South Asia digital investigation team, based in New Delhi. Prior to joining AFP in 2022, he worked with various leading Indian newspapers.

Safrin La Batu, Editor, Indonesia
Safrin La Batu joined AFP in 2019 as a digital investigation reporter for Indonesia. He was previously an investigative reporter for The Jakarta Post and The Gecko Project.

Jeff Li, Editor, Hong Kong
Jeff Li is an editor for the Asia-Pacific team. Before joining AFP in 2022, he worked as a journalist at the BBC, covering Hong Kong and China.

Zoe Low, Editor, Hong Kong
Zoe Low is an editor for the Asia-Pacific team. Before joining AFP in 2022, she worked as a reporter at the South China Morning Post.

Nattakorn Ploddee, Editor, Thailand
Nattakorn Ploddee leads the Southeast Asia digital investigation team from Bangkok. He is responsible for Thai-language output and participates in AFP’s digital investigation workshops. Prior to joining the agency in 2019, he worked as a news anchor covering international news.

Richard Pyne, Editor, Hong Kong
Richard Pyne is an editor for the Asia-Pacific team. Prior to joining AFP in 2022, he was a reporter, presenter and editor for Radio Television Hong Kong.

Purple Romero, Editor, Hong Kong
Purple Romero is an editor for the Asia-Pacific team. Before joining AFP in 2023, she worked as a teaching assistant at the University of Hong Kong and previously as digital investigation reporter at AFP’s Manila bureau.

Shim Kyu-seok, Editor, South Korea
Shim Kyu-seok is a digital investigation editor monitoring mis/disinformation in South Korea. Before joining AFP in 2021, he worked as a political journalist covering North Korean and South Korean domestic politics for the Korea JoongAng Daily.

Qadaruddin Shishir, Editor, Bangladesh
Qadaruddin Shishir coordinates production in Bengali. He joined AFP after working as an editor for various media in Bangladesh.

Satya Adhi, Reporter, Indonesia
Satya Adhi debunks mis/disinformation in Indonesia. Before joining AFP in 2023, he was a multimedia journalist covering general news for Indonesian news outlet Narasi.

Sachin Baghel, Reporter, India
Sachin is a digital verification reporter debunking mis/disinformation in India. Before joining AFP in 2024, he was a reporter for fact-check website BOOMLive and a multimedia journalist for various Indian media outlets.

Carina Cheng, Reporter, Hong Kong
Carina Cheng debunks mis/disinformation circulating in China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. She joined AFP after graduating from the University of Hong Kong in 2023. Prior to this, she was a student fact-check reporter at Annie Lab.

Jan Cuyco, Reporter, Philippines
Jan Cuyco is a digital verification journalist based in Manila. Before joining AFP in 2023, she debunked electoral mis/disinformation for the Philippine fact-checking coalition Tsek.ph.

Ara Eugenio, Reporter, Philippines
Ara Eugenio is a digital investigation reporter in the Philippines. She joined AFP in 2022 after working as a multimedia journalist at Summit Media.

Md Eyamin, Reporter, Bangladesh
Md Eyamin is a digital investigation journalist based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Prior to joining AFP in 2023, he worked as a senior correspondent for The Business Standard and as a reporter for the Bonik Barta, covering the energy sector in Bangladesh and neighbouring countries.

Rimal Farrukh, Reporter, Pakistan
Rimal Farrukh is a digital investigation reporter based in Islamabad, Pakistan. Prior to joining AFP, she worked as a South Asia correspondent for VICE World News.

Pasika Khernamnuoy, Reporter, Thailand
Pasika Khernamnuoy is a digital investigation reporter based in Bangkok. Prior to joining AFP in 2024, she worked as a social media editor at the BBC covering Thailand and leading digital content strategy.

Masroor Gilani, Reporter, Pakistan
Masroor Gilani is a digital investigation reporter who first joined AFP as correspondent Pakistan in 2003, after working at Associated Press of Pakistan and The Muslim newspaper.

Gemma Holliani Cahya, Reporter, Indonesia
Gemma Holliani Cahya is a digital investigation reporter based in Jakarta. Before joining AFP in 2022, she worked as reporter for The Guardian, Los Angeles Times and The Jakarta Post.

Chayanit Itthipongmaetee, Reporter, Thailand
Chayanit Itthipongmaetee is a digital verification journalist based in Bangkok, Thailand. Prior to joining AFP, Chayanit worked as a journalist for Coconuts Bangkok and Khaosod English.

Hailey Jo, Reporter, South Korea
Hailey Jo joined AFP in 2023 as a digital investigation journalist and debunks mis/disinformation on a wide variety of topics in South Korea. Previously, she was a reporter and anchor for TVB in Hong Kong.

Devesh Mishra, Reporter, India
Devesh Mishra debunks mis/disinformation circulating in India. Prior to joining AFP, he worked as a reporter for fact-check website BOOM Live in New Delhi and as a media trainer for the Google News Initiative programme FactShala.

Felix Nathaniel, Reporter, Indonesia
Felix Nathaniel is a digital investigation reporter monitoring mis/disinformation in Indonesia. Before joining AFP in 2023, he worked as an investigative journalist covering politics, human rights, economics, tech and environmental issues for Tirto.id and TechinAsia.

Harshana Silva, Reporter, Sri Lanka
Harshana has been debunking misinformation in Sri Lanka since 2021. Prior to his role at AFP, he led a local fact-checking team in Colombo and worked more than eight years as a journalist at the Sinhalese newspaper Lankadeepa.

Lucille Sodipe, Reporter, Philippines
Lucille Sodipe reports on mis/disinformation circulating in the Philippines. Before joining AFP in 2020, Lucille worked in broadcast media, producing television documentaries for more than a decade. She was also a reporter and editor at Philippine fact-checking organisation Vera Files.

Najmi Syahiran Mamat, Reporter, Malaysia
Based in Kuala Lumpur, Najmi debunks mis/disinformation in Malaysia and Singapore. Prior to joining AFP in October 2023, he worked for news outlets including Channel News Asia, Free Malaysia Today and Astro AWANI.

Tommy Wang, Reporter, Hong Kong
Tommy Wang debunks mis/disinformation circulating in China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. Prior to joining AFP in 2023, he worked on Chinese fact-checking projects.

Juliette Montesse, Head of Digital Investigations for Europe, France
Juliette Montesse is the deputy head of the Europe team. A journalist with AFP since 2010, she was previously a Paris court reporter and a Paris suburbs correspondent before joining the digital investigation team in 2020.

Katarina Subasic, Deputy Head of Digital Investigations for Europe, Serbia
Katarina Subasic joined the digital verification team in 2020 as a fact-checker covering Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, becoming an editor in 2023. She has been working for AFP since 1998 as a news reporter and editor covering Serbia and the Western Balkans.

Sonia González, Editor, Spain
Sonia González in an editor for Europe. Before joining the Spanish-language fact check team in 2019, she worked at AFP’s regional desks, graphics and online services in Madrid, Montevideo and Paris.

Simon Morgan, Editor, France
Simon Morgan is an editor for the Europe team. He joined AFP in 1998 and has worked as a reporter in Frankfurt and Vienna. He moved to the English editing desk at the Paris headquarters in 2017 and joined the digital investigation team in 2022.

Estelle Péard, Editor, France
Estelle Péard has worked for AFP since 2010. Before joining the Europe digital investigation team as an editor in 2021, she was an economics correspondent in Germany, a reporter covering social conflicts in France and a news editor.

Katharina Zwins, Editor, Austria
Katharina Zwins reports on misinformation and disinformation in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Before joining AFP in 2023, she trained as a lawyer and also worked for the Austrian news magazine profil, where she co-founded the fact-checking project faktiv.

Théophile Bloudanis, Reporter, Greece
Théophile Bloudanis reports on mis/disinformation in Greece and Cyprus. Before joining AFP's digital verification team in 2022, he worked as a journalist for the Swiss local newspaper Le Journal du Jura and for AFP as a photographer.

Rossen Bossev, Reporter, Austria
Rossen Bossev reports on mis/disinformation in Bulgaria. Before joining AFP in 2021, he worked for 15 years as a journalist at Capital, covering judiciary, law enforcement, and human rights.

Paula Căbescu, Reporter, Austria
Paula Căbescu reports on mis/disinformation in Romania. Before joining AFP in 2021, she worked at the Romanian fact-checking website Factual and for the local investigative journalism project Să Fie Lumină.

Maja Czarnecka, Reporter, Poland
Maja Czarnecka reports on mis/disinformation in Poland. Before joining the digital verification team in 2019, she worked as a text and video journalist for AFP in Warsaw, covering political, social, economic and cultural news.

Marion Dautry, Reporter, Poland
Marion Dautry is a journalist covering Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Before joining AFP in 2020, she worked as a freelance correspondent for French and English-speaking media covering the news in the Western Balkans.

Ivan Fischer, Reporter, Croatia
Ivan Fischer joined AFP in 2023 as a fact-checker in Croatia. Prior to that he spent a decade as a reporter and analyst at Jutarnji list, covering science, technology and foreign policy. He also hosted weekly shows on science and technology on Croatian public radio.

Magdalini Gkogkou, Reporter, Greece
Magdalini Gkogkou reports on mis/disinformation in Greece and Cyprus. Before joining AFP's digital verification team in 2024, she worked as a journalist for the digital publishing group 24Media and as a contributor for the Greek street paper Shedia.

Gundula Haage, Reporter, Germany
Gundula Haage reports on mis/disinformation in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Before joining AFP in 2024, she worked as editor for the cultural political quarterly Kulturaustausch and as freelancer for ARTE, taz and Tagesspiegel.

Anna Hollingsworth, Reporter, Finland
Anna Hollingsworth reports on mis/disinformation in Finland and Sweden. Before joining AFP in 2022, she worked in an audience engagement role at The Times and Sunday Times in London, writing about topics ranging from health to social change and culture.

Johanna Lehn, Reporter, Germany
Johanna Lehn reports on mis/disinformation in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Before joining AFP in 2023, she worked for Kieler Nachrichten which is part of the Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND).

Ladka Mortkowitz, Reporter, Czech Republic
Ladka Mortkowitz reports on mis/disinformation in the Czech Republic. Before joining AFP in 2020, Ladka worked as a reporter for various international media including Bloomberg News and The New York Times. For the past two decades she has reported from Prague, Paris and Berlin.

Liesa Pauwels, Reporter, Netherlands
Liesa Pauwels is a journalist covering the Netherlands and Dutch-speaking Belgium. Before joining AFP in 2024, she worked for a fact-checking project around the 2024 EU elections as well as for several European news outlets in Brussels.

Ede Záborszky, Reporter, Austria
Ede Záborszky reports on mis/disinformation in Hungary. Before joining AFP in 2021, he worked for Index.hu, one of the biggest and oldest online news sites in Hungary, and as a freelancer for the Hungarian news service of Radio Free Europe (RFE/RL).

Gaëlle Geoffroy, Reporter, France
Gaëlle Geoffroy reports on mis/disinformation in France. She joined AFP in 2002 and worked in various roles in the Paris head office, including covering the economy, general news and politics. She also worked as a economics correspondent in Washington D.C.

Théo Marie--Courtois, Reporter, France
Théo Marie--Courtois reports on mis/disinformation in France. He joined AFP in July 2023.

Claire-Line Nass, Reporter, France
Claire-Line Nass reports on mis/disinformation in France. Before joining the AFP in 2021, she worked in the fact-checking team at the French newspaper Libération and covered various topics linked to mis/disinformation.

Alexis Orsini, Reporter, France
Alexis Orsini reports on mis/disinformation in France. Before joining AFP in 2022, he worked as a fact-checker for the 20 Minutes newspaper.

While we endeavour to be as transparent as possible about our staff, some countries and environments are more hostile than others when it comes to journalism. For that reason, some of the journalists on our Latin America team will not be named below to protect their safety.

Anella Reta, Head of Digital Investigations in Spanish and Portuguese, Uruguay
Anella Reta is head of AFP’s digital investigation teams for Latin America, Brazil and Spain. Since joining AFP in 2004, she has worked as an editor for the Spanish language graphic service,  a senior editor for the Latin America desk in Montevideo, and correspondent in Sao Paulo. She joined the digital verification team in 2019.

Miguel Bravo, Spanish Editorial Coordinator, Mexico
Miguel Bravo is an editorial coordinator for the Spanish language team bases in Mexico City. He has worked debunking misinformation at AFP since 2019. Previously, he was a reporter for several Mexican media outlets, specializing in fields such as government, health and economics.

Cecília Sorgine, Portuguese Editorial Coordinator, Brazil 
After several years as a digital investigation reporter and editor, Cecília Sorgine now works as an editorial coordinator for the Portuguese language team in Brazil. Before joining the verification team, she worked for AFP's Portuguese text and multimedia services.

Nadia Nasanovsky, Digital Training Manager for Latin America, Uruguay
Nadia Nasanovsky leads AFP's digital journalism training programme in Latin America. She joined AFP in 2019 as a digital investigation reporter in Buenos Aires. Before joining AFP she worked as a fact-checker and as a reporter for several Argentinean media outlets.

Magdalena Advis, Special Project Editor, Chile
Magdalena Advis is an editor for the team in Latin America. Prior to joining AFP in February 2023, she worked on fact-checking the Chilean constitutional process (2021-2022) and on investigations into social inequality.

Tatiana Magariños, Editor, Uruguay
Tatiana Magariños is an editor for the Spanish language team. Since joining AFP in 2008, she has worked on the editing desk and in the infographic and multimedia services in Montevideo. Prior to this, she worked as a journalist for a local newspaper and contributed to other media outlets. She joined the digital investigation team in 2023.

Andrés Felipe Martínez, Editor, Colombia
Andrés Martínez is an editor for the Spanish language team. He joined the AFP digital investigation team in August 2021. Previously he worked as a factchecker for Colombiacheck, and as a reporter for El País de Cali.

Denise Mota, Editor, Uruguay
Denise Mota is an editor for the Portuguese language team. Before joining AFP in 2021, she worked as editor at Brazilian investigative news outlets.

Maria Clara Pestre, Editor, Brazil
After several years as a digital investigation reporter, Maria Clara Pestre is now an editor for the Portuguese language team in Brazil. Before joining the verification team in 2019, she worked at Reuters’ Portuguese-speaking service and Globo.com’s technology website.

Ana Prieto, Editor, Argentina
Ana Prieto is an editor for the Spanish language team based in Buenos Aires. She was previously AFP's digital investigation reporter in Argentina, worked as a fact-checker at Radio Ambulante and contributed to several media outlets in the region, including Revista Ñ, Orsai, Univision and El Nuevo Herald.

Natalia Sanguino, Editor, Spain
After several years as a digital investigation reporter, Natalia Sanguino now works as editor in Madrid. She has been working for AFP for more than 15 years, during which she was also an editor for the Spanish multimedia service, editing text, graphics and videos.

Agustín Bagnasco, Reporter, Argentina
Agustín Bagnasco is a digital investigative journalist in Buenos Aires. Before joining AFP in March 2024, he worked as a journalistic producer at Telefe television channel.

Sofía Barragán, Reporter, Argentina
Sofía Barragán is a digital investigation journalist in Buenos Aires. Before joining AFP in July 2023, she worked as a SEO writer in Ámbito Financiero.

Carla Diaz, Reporter, Peru
Carla Diaz is a digital investigation journalist based in Lima. She has seven years of experience as a data verifier and researcher on gender and human rights issues. She has worked for various journalistic outlets in Peru, and her work has been locally and internationally recognized.

Lucía Díaz, Reporter, Spain
Lucía Díaz is a digital investigation journalist based in Madrid. Before joining AFP in June 2024, she worked in the fact-checking team at Newtral (Spain), mainly covering political and social issues. She also reported for a local newspaper.

Camila González, Reporter, Chile
Camila González is a digital investigative journalist in Santiago. Before joining AFP in February 2024, she worked as a fact-checker at El Polígrafo from El Mercurio, Mala Espina Check and Fast Check CL. In addition, she verified political and electoral processes for Meganoticias and TVN.

Ezzio Ramos, Reporter, Perú
Ezzio Ramos is a digital investigation journalist in Lima. Before joining AFP in February 2024, he worked as a fact checker at the Peruvian newspaper La República and collaborated with the verification alliance PerúCheck. He has also published articles in various magazines and media outlets.

Manuela Silva, Reporter, Uruguay
Manuela Silva is a digital investigation journalist and a writing professor at the University of Montevideo. Before joining AFP in 2021, she worked at a regional agency and a national fact-checking project.

While we endeavour to be as transparent as possible about our staff, some countries and environments are more hostile than others when it comes to journalism. For that reason, the journalists working on the Middle East team will not be named to protect their safety.

Arthur MacMillan, Head of Digital Investigations for North America, USA
Arthur MacMillan leads the US digital investigation team. He originally joined AFP as an editor in Hong Kong in 2007. As a correspondent, he has reported from numerous countries, including Iran, South Africa, Iraq and Pakistan, as well as the United States.

Marisha Goldhamer, Deputy Head of Digital Investigations for North America, USA
Marisha Goldhamer oversees output from Canada and coordinates journalists in Montreal and Washington. Marisha joined AFP in 2003, working on the multimedia desk and the agency's social media presence.

Juan Ignacio Berro, Editor, Mexico
Juan Ignacio Berro is the fact checking editor for the US Spanish team. He joined the AFP in 2021 as fact checker for Uruguay, after having worked for a project to fight misinformation in the presidential campaign of that country in 2019.

Daniel Funke, Editor, USA
Daniel Funke joined AFP as a digital investigation editor in 2022 after working as a reporter and editor at USA Today, PolitiFact, the International Fact-Checking Network and the Poynter Institute for Media Studies. Daniel has expertise in online mis/disinformation, verification, politics and technology.

Rob Lever, Editor, USA
Rob Lever joined the US digital investigation team in 2021 after working a variety of posts in AFP's Washington bureau. He joined AFP in 1992 and has worked as an economics reporter, Americas desk news editor, and the technology-media reporter-editor.

Nahiara S. Alonso, Reporter, USA
Nahiara S. Alonso debunks mis/disinformation circulating in the United States in Spanish. She joined AFP in 2022 after working as a financial reporter in Spain at El Pais and Newtral.

Daniel Patrick Galgano, Reporter, USA
Daniel Patrick Galgano reports on mis/disinformation in the United States. He joined AFP in 2024, first serving as a fact-checking intern.

Bill McCarthy, Reporter, USA
Bill McCarthy reports on mis/disinformation in the United States. He joined AFP in 2022 after working as a reporter for PolitiFact, where he covered US media and politics, online mis/disinformation and led the fact-checking of political pundits.

Gwen Roley, Reporter, Canada
Gwen Roley debunks mis/disinformation in Canada on a wide variety of topics. She joined AFP in 2023 after working as a reporter and researcher in the US and Canada.

Roxana Romero, Reporter, Mexico
Roxana Romero debunks mis/disinformation circulating in the United States in Spanish. She joined AFP in 2023. Prior to that, she worked at the Notimex agency and as an editor and freelance reporter for several international and Mexican media.

Natalie Wade, Reporter, USA
Natalie Wade joined AFP as a member of the NABJ fact-check fellowship in 2021 and debunks mis/disinformation on a wide variety of topics in the United States.