Katy Fallon is a freelance journalist based in Athens, Greece.

Katy is focusing on migration at Europe’s external borders and has covered people on the move in places such as Greece, Bosnia and northern France. She was shortlisted for an Amnesty Media Award in 2021 and was previously based in London, she contributes to the Guardian, Al Jazeera English and The New Humanitarian amongst others.

Katy Fallon

Basic information

Name
Katy Fallon
Title
Journalist
Expertise
Migration and social affairs
Country
Greece
City
Athens

Supported projects

Disappeared in the sand

  • Migration

NIAMEY - This cross-border investigation focuses on the impact of the Anti-smuggling-Law 036-2015, introduced in Niger in response to the so-called “European refugee crisis.” 

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Prisons in Paradise

  • Human Rights
  • Migration

SAMOS-KOS - This cross-border independent investigation focuses on the newly opened “closed controlled access center” on the island of Samos. The first “pilot project of the European Union” that opened on the 18th of September this year and was entirely financed (43 Million Euros) by a fund of the EU-Commission, which vowed to “No Moria Morias”, after Europe's biggest refugee Camp Moria, on the Greek island of Lesvos burned down last year.  

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