Joud Hasan joined CPJ in January 2026 as the Levant Program Coordinator. He has worked at the intersection of journalism, research, and program management for nearly two decades. His reporting and editorial work has focused on civic movements, displacement, and state violence, covering key developments in Syria since 2011, and later in Iraq and Lebanon. Alongside his journalism, he has led and coordinated multidisciplinary initiatives with international and civil society organizations across civic engagement, art and culture, human rights, and digital rights. In 2013, Hasan received the Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of the Press. He is the author of Table Ground (Syrian Association for Citizenship, 2014) and wrote Journalism and Creative Writing: A Handbook for Citizen-Journalists in Conflict Areas (Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2016). A native of Syria, Hasan received his bachelor’s degree in media and journalism from Damascus University.
