Author Archives: Sally Hayden

April – VICE News, One World Media Awards, Business Insider (selected)

‘Nigeria’s Self-Styled Warriors: Meet the Vigilante Army Taking on the World’s Deadliest Terrorist Group’, VICE News, Apr 28, 2016 (in Spanish)

A man raising a supportive hand in London as a busload of protesting junior doctors passes by, for VICE News.

‘In Photos: England’s Junior Doctors Protest as All-Out Strike Enters Second Day’, VICE News, Apr 26, 2016

‘UK Politicians Reject Move to Accept 3,000 Unaccompanied Refugee Children’, VICE News, Apr 26, 2016

‘Boko Haram’s War on Women: Abductees Speak of Systematic Rape, Suicide Bombers, and Survival’, VICE News, Apr 25, 2016 (in Spanish; also published on Business Insider)

_MGL0960 6-day-old babies born to a woman who was raped by a Boko Haram fighter in northeast Nigeria, for VICE News.

‘Obama’s “Town Hall” Meeting with British Youth Covered Gender Rights, Islamophobia, and Leadership’, VICE News, Apr 23, 2016

‘Obama Warns the UK That There Will Be Consequences if It Leaves the EU’, VICE News, Apr 22, 2016

‘Meet the Former WWII Refugee Leading the Call for Britain to Take In Unaccompanied Minors’, VICE News, Apr 22, 2016

‘Survivors Say Hundreds of People Have Drowned in Mediterranean Boat Sinking’, VICE News, Apr 20, 2016 (in Italian, Spanish, and French)

‘As Video of Chibok Girls Gives New Hope, We Speak to Survivors of Boko Haram’, VICE News, Apr 14, 2016

‘On Second Anniversary of Chibok Kidnapping, the Man Who Started #BringBackOurGirls’, VICE News, Apr 14, 2016

It was also great to serve as a judge for the One World Media Awards. Nominees are now up here.

March – VICE News (selected)

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Reporting on Easter Rising centenary commemorations in Dublin, Ireland, in blue hood and black jacket on the right. Photo via Irish Defence Forces.

‘Ireland Marks 100 Years Since “Easter Rising” Against British Rule’, VICE News, Mar 28, 2016

IMG_5844 (1) IMG_5985 (1) IMG_6063 (1) Photos of Easter Rising centenary commemorations in Dublin, Ireland, for VICE News.

‘These North Korean Defectors Are Leading Calls for Kim Jong-un to Face the ICC’, VICE News, Mar 15, 2016

‘Bahrain Detains Activist and Her Baby Son in Ongoing “Cat-and-Mouse” Crackdown’, VICE News, Mar 14, 2016

‘Inside the Underground Efforts to Liberate Saudi Arabia’s Domestic Workers’, VICE News, Mar 9, 2016

‘An Infamous Undercover Cop Has Been Tracked to Australia — Where He’s Teaching Police Tactics’, VICE News, Mar 9, 2016 (in French)

‘Clearing France’s Migrant Camps: What’s Next For Thousands of Evicted Refugees?’, VICE News, Mar 7, 2016 (in Italian)

Reporting from the Jungle migrant camp in Calais, France, during mass evictions, for VICE News.

‘We Visited the Lesser-Known French Migrant Camp That’s Next in Line for Evictions’, VICE News, Mar 4, 2016

‘Migrants Sew Their Lips Shut in Protest at Calais “Jungle” Demolition’, VICE News, Mar 2, 2016 (photo also used in VICE News video dispatch; in Spanish and French)

An Iranian man sewed his lips together in protest at the treatment of migrants and refugees in Calais, France. For VICE News.

I was also referenced in the Independent.

February – VICE News, Today FM (selected)

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‘Soldiers, Spies, and Police Officers Launch Campaign to Legalize Drugs in the UK’, VICE News, Feb 29, 2016 (in Spanish and French)

‘Ireland’s General Election Could Finally End Almost 100 Years of Civil War Politics’, VICE News, Feb 26, 2016

‘”Serious Failings” at BBC Allowed Decades of “Monstrous” Abuse by Broadcaster Jimmy Savile’, VICE News, Feb 25 (I also spoke about this on Today FM)

‘Where Beauty Hides Brute Force: We Spoke to the Jailed Ex-President of the Maldives’, VICE News, Feb 24, 2016

‘Inside the UK Asylum System: From Eritrea to Northern England’, VICE News, Feb 19, 2016 (in French)

‘Calls for Justice Increase Amid Mourning for Murdered Student Giulio Regeni’, VICE News, Feb 12, 2016

‘In Photos: Thousands of Medical Workers Protest Pay Cuts and Longer Hours in London’, VICE News, Feb 6, 2016 (in Spanish)

Thousands of junior doctors protesting in London, UK. Photos for VICE News.

‘A Murder in Ethiopia Shows the Rastafarian Promised Land Is Far From Heavenly’, VICE News, Feb 6, 2016 (in French and Spanish)

IMG_3011 (1) Interviewing Rastafarians in Shashamane, Ethiopia. Photo for VICE News.

‘On Board the Russian Dissidents’ “Kleptocracy’ Bus”‘, VICE News, Feb 5, 2016 (in Italian)

‘World Leaders Are in London Trying to Raise Billions For Syria’, VICE News, Feb 4, 2016

‘Church and Mosque Bulldozed in Calais Jungle Refugee Camp’, VICE News, Feb 1, 2016

January – VICE News (selected)

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‘Syrian Peace Talks Are Due to Start Today But No One Knows Who’ll Be There’, VICE News, Jan 29, 2016

‘Confiscations, Deportations, and Vague Promises: Europe Asylum Policy Shifts Again’, VICE News, Jan 28, 2016

‘Meet the Germans Taking Refugee Integration Into Their Own Hands — With Respect and Candy’, VICE News, Jan 27, 2016

‘”He Was My World”: We Spoke To Families and Survivors of Pakistan’s University Massacre’, VICE News, Jan 22, 2016 (joint byline)

‘In Photos: Retracing London’s Polonium Trail 10 Years After Alexander Litvinenko’s Death’, VICE News, Jan 21, 2016

‘Putin “Probably” Ordered Litvinenko’s Death, Inquiry Finds’, VICE News, Jan 21, 2016 (in French and Spanish, referenced by Echo 24)

‘The UK Just Made a “Ground-Breaking” Ruling on Refugee Children’, VICE News, Jan 20, 2016

‘Can the UK Keep Ignoring Child Refugees Desperate to Reach Their Families?’, VICE News, Jan 18, 2016 (in French)

Reporting from a memorial for Masud, a 15-year-old who died in Calais while trying to reach his family in the UK. Photo for VICE News.

‘”I Would Rather Die”: Migrants on Countdown to Be Evicted From Calais Jungle Homes’, VICE News, Jan 14, 2016 (in French)

‘Three Days Before France Bulldozes a Third of Calais Refugee Jungle’, VICE News, Jan 12, 2016 (in Spanish and French)

‘Retaliation Attacks in Cologne as “Hooligan” Gangs Launch Foreigner “Manhunt”‘, Jan 11, 2016

‘Here’s What Happened at the Dueling Protests Over the Mass Sexual Assault in Germany’, VICE News, Jan 9, 2016 (in Spanish and Dutch, mentioned by Business Insider)

IMG_4815 (1) Reporting from Cologne, Germany, after reports of mass sexual assaults on New Year’s, for VICE News.

‘An Unaccompanied 15-Year-Old Dies in Attempts to Reach His Sister in the UK’, VICE News, Jan 4, 2016 (referenced in an Amnesty International blog)

December – VICE News, VICE Magazine (selected)

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‘From Same-Sex Marriages to Brutal Murders: 2015 in Gay Rights’, VICE News, Dec 30, 2015

‘Charlie Hebdo “Set the Tone”: The Year in Questionable Allies and Freedom of Speech’, VICE News, Dec 25, 2015

‘Christmas in the Jungle: It’s the Worst Time of Year for Thousands of Refugees in Calais’, VICE News, Dec 24, 2015 (in French and Italian)

‘We’re Stuck in a Dangerous and Vicious Cycle, Say Experts, as Islamophobia Soars in the UK’, VICE News, Dec 7, 2015

‘Hundreds Attend Vigil at London Mosque Amid Surge of Islamophobic Incidents in the UK’, VICE News, Dec 5, 2015 (in Italian)

UK opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks at an anti-Islamophobia rally in north London.

‘Inside an Academy for al Qaeda Jihadists Fighting Assad and the Islamic State’, VICE Magazine, December issue (in Danish, Romanian, and German)

‘UK Votes to Bomb Islamic State in Syria as Protesters Stage ‘Die-In’ Outside Parliament’, VICE News, Dec 2, 2015 (coverage picked up by the Irish Examiner)

Protesters outside the UK Houses of Parliament on the night MPs voted to begin bombing ISIS in Syria.

‘”Terrorist Sympathizers”: Britain Split Down the Middle as Politicians Prepare to Vote on Bombing Syria’, VICE News, Dec 2, 2015

November – VICE News (selected)

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‘Here’s What We Saw at the Huge London Protest Demanding Action on Climate Change’, VICE News, Nov 29, 2015

Environmental activists march in London.

‘Activists Ask Pope to “Help Us Cure One of the Worst Diseases in Africa: Homophobia”‘, VICE News, Nov 27, 2015

‘Was Your Ex-Boyfriend an Undercover Police Spy? Some British Women Don’t Yet Know’, VICE News, Nov 24, 2015

‘Desperate Eritrean Child Escapees Are Committing Suicide in Ethiopia’, VICE News, Nov 20, 2015

‘A Who’s Who of Russian Dissidents Gathered in London to Protest Against Putin’, VICE News, Nov 17, 2015

‘EU Gives $2 Billion to Africa to Stem Migration, but African Leaders Would Prefer Tax Revenue’, VICE News, Nov 12, 2015

‘Germany Is Turning Away Syrian Refugees Once Again’, VICE News, Nov 11, 2015 (in Spanish)

‘In Photos: Inside the Al Nusra Academy Training the Next Generation of Jihadis’, VICE News, Nov 11, 2015 (in Italian and Spanish)

‘A Malaysian Cartoonist Told Us Why He’s Risking 43 Years in Prison for Tweeting’, VICE News, Nov 6, 2015 (in Spanish)

‘In Photos: A Police Car Blazes and Scores Arrested at London’s “Million Mask March”‘, VICE News, Nov 6, 2015 (My coverage was also mentioned by the Guardian, the Telegraph, TRT World, and Mashable. In French)

‘Women Tweet About Their Periods to the Irish Prime Minister in Protest of Abortion Law’, VICE News, Nov 6, 2015 (in Spanish)

‘The UK is Rolling Out the Red Carpet for Egypt’s President Sisi — And Some Egyptians Are Pissed’, VICE News, Nov 4, 2015

October – VICE News (selected)

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‘”I’m in Trouble”: The Women Boarding Ireland’s Illegal Abortion Bus’, VICE News, Oct 26, 2015

‘We Traveled Onboard the Irish “Abortion Bus” That’s Giving Illegal Pills to Women’, VICE News, Oct 24, 2015 (in French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, and Greek. My coverage was picked up by the Wexford Echo, the Evening Echo and breakingnews.ie)

‘Britain Ignores China’s Troubling Human Rights Record With Royal Welcome for Leader, Activists Say’, VICE News, Oct 20, 2015

Interviewing Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong. Screenshot via Newsnight

‘The UN Is Investigating the UK Over Its Treatment of People With Disabilities’, VICE News, Oct 16, 2015

‘Two Convicted Ethiopian War Criminals Have Been Sheltering in an Italian Embassy for 24 Years’, VICE News, Oct 12, 2015 (in Italian, Spanish, and Romanian) (picked up by Zegabi, EastAfro.com, Geeska Afrika, Bloggo, and DireTube)

‘”We Are Prepared to Launch At Any Time, Any Place,” Says North Korean Ambassador’, VICE News, Oct 1, 2015

I also acted as photographer at a Mary Raftery Journalism Fund event at the Irish Film Institute, and was delighted to be asked to speak about my reporting work to a freshman class at the University of Missouri.

August – VICE News, Huffpost Live, KCRW (selected)

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‘Germany Is Set to Accept Asylum Applications From All Syrians Who Arrive There’, VICE News, August 25, 2015 (in Spanish)

‘”This Is the Jungle”: Calais Migrant Camp Now Includes a School, a Church, and a Nightclub’, VICE News, August 13, 2015 (in French)

‘A Damning Report and Angry Protests Highlight the UK’s Most Infamous Immigration Center’, VICE News, August 12, 2015

‘”Everyone Will Make It One Day”: Meeting the Calais Migrants Who Dream of England’, VICE News, August 10, 2015

‘Pride Is Assertiveness’: Gay Ugandans Are Celebrating This Weekend, but Warn of Repercussions’, VICE News, August 7, 2015

‘What We Witnessed at a French Migrant Camp Allegedly Controlled by People Smugglers’, VICE News, August 7, 2015 (in French)

I was also a guest on Huffpost Live, speaking live from the Jungle migrant camp in Calais, and on KCRW’s show ‘To The Point’, speaking about my reporting on Calais.

Photos from Yarl’s Wood protest in Bedfordshire on Saturday, August 8.

July – VICE News (selected), Business Insider

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‘Putin on Trial in London, Accused of Ordering Nuclear Assassination of Ex-KGB Agent’, VICE News, July 31, 2015

‘Women are tricking ISIS into spending thousands of dollars on them’, Business Insider, July 31, 2015 (originally on VICE News; in Spanish)

‘The UK Has Launched Its First Public Inquiry Into Undercover Policing, and the Findings Could be Explosive’, VICE News, July 28, 2015

‘Russian Accused of Poisoning Ex-KGB Agent Given Until Tuesday to Testify’, VICE News, July 27, 2015

‘Azerbaijan’s ‘Show Trials’ Are Once Again Targeting Rights Activists’, VICE News, July 27, 2015

‘”We’re Going Up Against the State Here”: The UK’s Victims of Deep Undercover Policing Tell of Their Trauma’, VICE News, July 20, 2015

‘Bahraini Activist Nabeel Rajab Has Been Freed — For Now’, VICE News, July 15, 2015 (This was the first international interview with Nabeel following his release from prison; mentioned by BBC Trending and Human Rights Watch’s Daily Brief)

‘China Arrested More Than 100 Lawyers to “Smash a Major Criminal Gang”‘, July 13, 2015

‘For Some, Independence Day is About Commiseration, Not Celebration’, VICE News, July 9, 2015

‘Migrants Suffer as Greek Islands Buckle Under Dual Crises’, VICE News, July 9, 2015 (in French)

I was also referenced in the Washington Post.