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Daniel Adamson
@danielsilas
Investigative documentaries for BBC. Co-founding Exec Producer #BBCAfricaEye. Creator of BBC’s 1st visual investigations / OSINT team. Building something new.
Oct 12, 2023 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Some of the most measured voices I’m hearing on here, the ones who seem most serious about ending this agony, seem to come from Israelis whose loved ones have just been murdered or abducted by Hamas.

Some examples… 🧵 ⬇️ In their pain, these people have summoned a serious, humane response that contrasts so sharply with the dogmatic, righteous, cocksure punditry that has dominated Twitter and degraded much of the political commentary
Jun 29, 2022 • 18 tweets • 9 min read
It’s been 2 weeks since our ‘Racism for Sale’ investigation dropped and I thought it might be worth sharing some of the fallout. ICYMI the basic story & links to the film are here…

First, a *lot* of ppl watched this film: > 2m on FB, >1.6m on Insta, >1m on YouTube in English & Chinese. Another 750k in Brazil.

This is a story about racist exploitation of kids, and it clearly resonated all over the world. @Lupita_Nyongo shared it too, which never hurts…
Mar 28, 2022 • 9 tweets • 6 min read
In February 2015 Russian politician Boris Nemtsov — a fierce critic of Putin  — was shot dead on a bridge in the shadow of the Kremlin.

Five men were convicted for the murder, but the most urgent questions were never answered: who ordered the hit, and why? Now, a new film from our team at BBC Eye Investigations, working with @bellingcat and @the_ins_ru, reveals that, in the year running up to the murder, Nemtsov was being shadowed by a government agent linked to a secret assassination squad…
Sep 23, 2020 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
It’s been an incredible week for our Open Source investigations team at #BBCAfricaEye. A short thread...

First, we saw the killers of these kids jailed in Cameroon There’s detail on the sentencing here. The three men jailed are the same three named 2 years ago in our original report, plus their commander. Thanks to everyone who was part of this - it was a huge team effort bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr…
Mar 6, 2020 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
Opportunity for African video journalists, producers, and documentary filmmakers.

We have created a new #BBCAfricaEye training in the art & craft of documentary storytelling.

Thread… This course is *not* about how to shoot or edit. We’re working with a lot of people who can film and cut beautifully. We also have a network of great investigators and reporters across the continent.

But documentary storytelling…that’s a harder challenge.
Mar 3, 2020 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Refugee Blues, W.H.Auden, March 1939... 1/6 Image Say this city has ten million souls,
Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes:
Yet there’s no place for us, my dear, there’s no place for us.
Oct 4, 2019 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
One more push for our latest #BBCAfricaEye film - a damning expose of how multinational sports betting companies extract vast amounts of $ from the young, the poor, and the desperate in Uganda. Amazing work by @Zoe_Flood @namlyd & @MuhindaCollins Thanks to everyone who worked on this in Uganda, and to all the people discussing the film & the issue so thoughtfully online. Comments can be a garbage fire sometimes, but honestly when you do public service journalism these are the kinds of comments that make it worthwhile ImageImageImage
May 19, 2019 • 9 tweets • 6 min read
48 hours in NYC which is still, even in its gentrified and hipsterfied state, one of the most fascinating cities in the world Image This is the ferry to Staten Island, which is free and just runs back and forth across the water all day, right past Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty ImageImageImage
May 6, 2019 • 5 tweets • 5 min read
You can now watch all 4 of our @BBCAfrica short films exploring aspects of masculinity across the continent. The first was this beautiful but devastating film by @petemurimi, who investigated an unreported #mentalhealth crisis in rural Kenya #BBCAfricaEye From the #DRC, @aaronajourno looked at a remarkable initiative by @ilotmuthaka and @Comen_RDC to end sexual violence #CongoMensNetwork
Apr 30, 2019 • 9 tweets • 8 min read
In rural Kenya, a village chief struggles to deal with an alarming rise in male suicide.

Poignant, intimate, beautifully made film by @petemurimi for #BBCAfricaEye. Our thanks to the families to shared their stories with us #Kenya #MentalHealthAwareness

This film has sparked an important conversation on @Facebook and @instagram about mental health and masculinity.

Here’s a short thread on some of the issues Kenyans #KOT are talking about...

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