About Ali

Ali is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and investigative journalist focused on international news and current affairs.

Ali specialises in long form investigative journalism for broadcast, often working in remote and hostile environments. She focuses mostly on conflict, human rights and civil disobedience in the Asia Pacific region where she was based between 2009-2021 and has worked extensively on stories about extractive industries, illicit trade and trafficking, surveillance, justice and press freedom.

Ali’s work has won multiple global media prizes. In 2022 she was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Journalism for her coverage of the Myanmar coup. The same year she won several other awards including a Walkley Award for Excellence in Journalism and a Sigma Award for an investigation into surveillance, interrogation and torture in Myanmar. Her documentary “Myanmar: State of Fear” was added to the Shadid curriculum for ethical journalism as an example of “complex and outstanding ethical-decision making”. In 2018 she was part of the BBC team which received a Peabody Award for coverage of the Plight of the Rohingya.

She has worked as a correspondent, self-shooting PD and a video journalist producing work for the world’s leading international media organisations including the BBC, Al Jazeera, CNA, CNN, SBS and NBC.

Awards

SHORT LIST - ORWELL JOURNALISM PRIZE - 2022

WINNER - SIGMA AWARDS 2022: FOR DATA JOURNALISM

This is Myanmar’s State of Fear

FINALIST - ANTHONY SHADID AWARD FOR JOURNALISM ETHICS - 2022 (This work was also selected to be added to the Shadid curriculum on journalism ethics)