Daniel Howden is the co-founder and director of Lighthouse Reports, an award-winning investigative newsroom that works on deeply-reported public interest stories with some of the world’s leading media outlets. He is an experienced longform writer, reporter, and investigations editor. Lighthouse’s interdisciplinary team fosters specialists from data science and money trails to open source and visual forensics with the work reaching the public on the platforms they trust.
Daniel runs a 30-person team distributed across four continents, which has included staff exiled from Syria, Somalia, Myanmar, and Afghanistan. Lighthouse was recognized with the IJ4EU Impact Award two years in a row. Since 2016, Howden has been focused on migration reporting, and he was a fellow at Oxford University’s Refugee Studies Centre, as well as a senior editor on Refugees Deeply. Previously, he spent much of his career as a correspondent for international media including the Guardian, The Economist, and The Independent.