Jake Hanrahan

Jake Hanrahan (born 23 January 1990) is a British journalist and documentary filmmaker from the East Midlands. He reports on war and conflict, focusing on militia forces, paramilitaries and guerrilla warfare.

Jake Hanrahan
Born (1990-01-23) 23 January 1990
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Journalist, filmmaker
Employer(s)VICE News, HBO, ProPublica
Websitejakehanrahan.com

Hanrahan is best known for his work covering the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a Kurdish militant group, in southeast Turkey. He was arrested in September 2015 in Turkey with his colleagues Philip Pendlebury and Mohammed Rasool, after the three embedded with the PKK's youth wing, the YDG-H, who were actively fighting the Turkish Armed Forces. Hanrahan spent two weeks in several maximum security prisons in Turkey, including Diyarbakır Prison and Adana F-type prison, before being deported back to the UK.[1][2][3] Hanrahan called on Turkey to release translator Mohammed Rasool, who remained in detention for over 100 days after Hanrahan's release.[4]

Hanrahan has also reported on the war in Donbas, embedding with both the Ukrainian Ground Forces[5] and the separatist forces in the Donbas.[6] He has also covered wars in Syria, Iraq, and Palestine, as well as various riots across Europe.[7]

Hanrahan runs a grassroots independent media platform called Popular Front,[8][9] which consists of a podcast, documentaries and a magazine. His podcast has more than 150 episodes, interviewing people from conflict zones around the world. Popular Front's best known video project is the 2020 documentary Plastic Defence, which shows unique access to the man who invented secret 3D printed firearms in Europe. The documentary has amassed more than 2.6 million views on YouTube, and attracted much media attention.[10][11]

Hanrahan has also worked as a reporter and a producer on VICE News and HBO documentaries.[7][12]

Hanrahan's investigative reporting as part of Documenting Hate won a duPont Award in 2020.[13]

In 2020, Hanrahan started the podcast "Q-Clearance: The Hunt for QAnon",[14] aiming to clarify the origins and nature of the right wing political conspiracy theory QAnon.[15]

References
  1. Ingram, Mathew (21 October 2015). "VICE Media sites go dark in support of journalist imprisoned in Turkey". Fortune. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
  2. "Vice News journalists back in UK after release from Turkish prison". The Guardian. 6 September 2015. Retrieved 20 January 2017.
  3. Palmer, Ewan (3 September 2015). "Jake Hanrahan and best mate Philip Pendlebury: Vice News journalists arrested for 'aiding Isis' freed in Turkey". International Business Times UK. Retrieved 20 January 2017.
  4. "Northampton journalist urges Turkey to free imprisoned colleague". ITV News. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  5. VICE News (21 October 2016), Inside the Front Lines Of The Ukrainian Cease-fire That Wasn't (HBO), retrieved 7 November 2017
  6. VICE News (26 December 2016), Inside The DNR, The Russia-Backed Region Clashing With Ukraine (HBO), retrieved 7 November 2017
  7. "Jake Hanrahan: Irregular Warfare". Throomers. 2 November 2019. Archived from the original on 30 November 2020. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  8. "Interview: Popular Front's Jake Hanrahan promises all the details of modern war". The Defense Post. 22 August 2018. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  9. Markosian, Lilit (7 September 2021). "The Story of Nagorno-Karabakh Is Incomplete". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
  10. Schneider, Ari (16 February 2021). "3D-Printed Guns Are Getting More Capable and Accessible". Slate Magazine. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
  11. Simpson, John. "Militant network pushes homemade assault rifles". ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
  12. "The Rise of Independent Journalism". The Defiance Podcast. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  13. "Winners of the 2020 duPont-Columbia Awards | Columbia Journalism School". journalism.columbia.edu. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
  14. "Q-Clearance: The Hunt for QAnon". Google Podcasts. 6 October 2020. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  15. Joho, Jess. "The 18 best tech podcasts (that aren't 'Reply All')". Mashable. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
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