Declan Walsh

An immense honor to be awarded the @PulitzerPrizes for our work on Sudan. pulitzer.org/node/declan-wa…

The UAE, through it's arming of Sudan's RSF, is probably the most consequential foreign actor in a devastating war. Now activists are focusing on the UAE's sports sponsorship, calling on @NBA to suspend its brand deal with the country.

One of the @NBA's biggest sponsors is the #UAE. They also sponsor a genocidal militia in #Sudan. @NBA Make the right call. End the @emirates deal. bloodontheball.org #NBAPlayoffs #EmiratesNBACup #NBA

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BREAKING! US court ha suspended the US sanctions against me! As the judge says: "Protecting the Freedom of speech is always just the public interest". Thanks to my daughter and my husband for stepping up to defend me, and everyone who has helped so far. Together we are One.

@IsraelMFA @nytimes

For its role in Sudan's war, "the UAE has earned its place among the ranks of the world’s outlaws." By @NesrineMalik theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Simply unbearable details in this report from @NickKristof on sexual violence against Palestinians

Critical take from Israel's Foreign Ministry on my column about sexual assaults of Palestinian men, women and children. You can read my piece here through a gift link: nytimes.com/2026/05/11/opi…

Here are the photos that won the @nytimesphoto Gaza photographer Saher Alghorra a 2026 @PulitzerPrizes -- taken under impossible, dangerous conditions even as he lacked supplies and even food. The world is in his debt for chronicling conditions in Gaza. nytimes.com/2026/05/04/wor…

Read this detailed account from @ZeinakhodrAljaz of the sequence of events leading to the killing of Leb journalist Amal Khalil. Her editors; Leb Pres; Red Cross, were all informed and appealed for help. The Israeli military bombed her shelter anyway then prevented her rescue for hours, attacking the ambulance crews. Targeting journalists and first responders is a heinous breach of int law - no matter their affiliation, no matter it was inside Israeli-occupied land. Leb PM is demanding accountability and calls her killing a ‘blatant war crime’

Story by @ashleyahn88: nytimes.com/2026/04/22/wor…

Yet another killing of a journalist in southern Lebanon by Israeli forces.

The body of the Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil was found by rescuers after several hours of digging in the rubble after an Israeli strike. She is the fourth journalist to have been killed by Israeli forces in seven weeks. This is why the word ‘journacide’ is now being used.

It was "a matter of deep regret" that Mahsa Amini, whose death in 2022 resulted in massive protests, had died in custody for wearing the hijab, he said. "You can't make people believe using force," he said.

I interviewed Kamal Kharazi in Tehran in July, after the 12-day war. He staunchly defended the regime but also spoke of reforms that reflected its weakness. Women were no longer being forced to wear the hijab, he said, and efforts to impose a dress code on women were "wrong".

Deeply saddened to hear of the passing of John F. Burns, the legendary foreign correspondent of The New York Times. He hired me for the Times in 2002. I had just graduated from university with a degree in International Relations and knew almost nothing about journalism. Burns took me on anyway. In doing so he became, in many ways, my first real teacher in the craft. The Islamabad bureau in late 2001 operated temporarily out of a guesthouse before moving to a larger house the following year. Burns had a reputation for planting bureaus in difficult places and making them work. Watching him build one from the ground up was itself an education. My work at the start was to assist Burns and the other journalists at the bureau. Pull wire reports. Do research. Track down interesting articles. Stack them neatly on his desk. Burns spent most of the day out in the city meeting officials or holding long conversations with sources, mostly over coffee in a hotel lounge. The real work began late at night. He wrote deep into the evening at a desk set up in one corner of the newsroom. I would sit nearby, ready to pass him a document or run a quick search as he shaped his copy. Stories went out in the small hours. One evening, worn down by the long hours, I complained to a colleague, Remy Gerstein. His reply was blunt and memorable, a lesson in itself. "Your time is important. But it is not as important as John's." Burns was meticulous about his work, even his notebooks. He wrote only on one half of each page, leaving the other half blank so he could return later, sometimes years later, to add a thought or a detail. His appearance rarely changed. White shirt. Khakis or pale blue jeans. A green fleece. He insisted on dependable, top-notch equipment and worked on a Sony laptop at a time when Apple machines had not yet broken into the market. He was a wonderful raconteur. Over lunch or dinner he would hold a table for hours with stories about the people and places he had covered. My first reporting trip was with him, to Muridke near Lahore, where a banned militant organization had its headquarters. For someone just entering the profession it felt like stepping straight into the deep current of reporting. His wife, Jane Scott-Long, managed the bureau and kept the operation running with precision. The two soon moved on to set up the Kabul bureau before leaving for Baghdad when the Iraq war began in 2003. His passing comes at a time when the world already feels unsettled. Perhaps that is why the loss feels heavier. Looking back, I realize how fortunate I was to begin my career around journalists of that caliber. The newsroom had an unspoken but palpable competitive energy. Everyone wanted to be the one to win the Pulitzer for their coverage. That tension sharpened the work. John gave me my first break and showed what serious reporting looked like. That early apprenticeship has stayed with me ever since. Rest in peace, John.