Chavala Madlena
Chavala Madlena is an American journalist and documentary filmmaker whose work has appeared on the BBC, The Guardian, the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR), Al Jazeera, The Young Turks (TYT Network), and others. Her written investigations have been published in The Guardian, VICE, Foreign Policy, the BBC, and other outlets.[1][2]
Career
Madlena studied Politics and East European Studies at the University College London (UCL) and completed a master's degree in Broadcast Journalism at Goldsmiths, University of London. Early in her career, she worked with CNN's National Bureau in Atlanta and later contributed as a production assistant to the HBO documentary Youth Knows No Pain and the PBS Frontline / BBC Storyville film Boogeyman: The Lee Atwater Story.[citation needed]
She joined The Guardian as a researcher and production assistant with Guardian Films, contributing to coverage of the 2009 Iranian election protests. In 2010, she received the Scott Trust Bursary as a multimedia fellow and subsequently became a producer at Guardian Films. Her work there included long-form and news investigations and co-productions with BBC Newsnight, BBC Arabic, and Al Jazeera.[3] She was part of the multimedia team involved in The Guardian's initial collaboration with WikiLeaks.[4]
Madlena's investigation into vulture funds—co-published by The Guardian and produced with BBC Newsnight—examined the use of the Island of Jersey by creditor firms; shortly afterwards, the States of Jersey voted to reform its laws limiting such claims.[5][6]
She has served as a producer on investigations and films including Revealed: Pentagon's Link to Iraqi Torture Centres (BBC / The Guardian), Searching for Steele (Guardian Films / BBC / Storyville), The Lovers and the Despot, and Captagon: Syria's War Drug (BBC Arabic).[7][8][9]
Her reporting for The Guardian has covered U.S. drone strikes in Yemen, child labor among Syrian refugees in Lebanon, and the detention of asylum seekers at a British military base in Cyprus.[10][11][12] The latter report drew international attention and was followed by public statements urging the release of those detained.[citation needed]
In 2012 Madlena developed the MacArthur Foundation-funded series TYT Investigates, co-produced by the Center for Investigative Reporting and The Young Turks, which included the documentaries Sterilization Behind Bars and Stockton. The issue of coerced sterilization of incarcerated women in California, highlighted in the reporting, was later addressed in the passage of Senate Bill 1135 in 2014.[13]
Madlena directed the BBC Arabic documentary Captagon: Syria's War Drug, the first television investigation to film inside a Captagon production facility. The film was distributed by Journeyman Pictures and cited in coverage by Foreign Policy and PRI's The World.[2][14][15]
Her later work has included investigations for the BBC and The Guardian, and on-camera reporting and production for the Arctic series True North (TYT Network / Verizon Go90).[16]
Madlena has appeared on current-affairs programs including The Young Turks, PRI's The World, and others, discussing international security and organized crime. She has also been associated with the Global Media Campaign to End FGM.[17]
References
- ↑ "Chavala Madlena". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Syria's Speed Freaks, Jihad Junkies and Captagon Cartels". Foreign Policy. 24 November 2015. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
- ↑ "Scott Trust bursaries 2010". The Guardian. 2010. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
- ↑ "The Guardian coverage of WikiLeaks". The Guardian. 2010. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
- ↑ "Jersey puts stop to vulture funds circling its courts". The Guardian. 20 November 2012. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
- ↑ "Vulture funds await Jersey decision on poor countries' debts". The Guardian. 15 November 2011. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
- ↑ "Revealed: Pentagon's link to Iraqi torture centres". The Guardian. 6 March 2013. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
- ↑ "Searching for Steele". ABC News (Australia). 2 April 2013. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
- ↑ "Captagon: Syria's War Drug". BBC Arabic. 2014. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
- ↑ "We dream about drones, said 13-year-old Yemeni before his death in a CIA strike". The Guardian. 10 February 2015. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
- ↑ "Syrian refugee children work Beirut streets to support families". The Guardian. 22 January 2015. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
- ↑ "Refugees plead for their release from RAF base in Cyprus". The Guardian. 29 October 2015. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
- ↑ "Governor Brown signs bill prohibiting sterilization abuse in prisons". Prison Policy Initiative. 26 September 2014. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
- ↑ "How Captagon fuels Syria's war". PRI's The World. 25 November 2015. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
- ↑ "Captagon: Syria's War Drug (2014) – Journeyman Pictures YouTube upload". Journeyman Pictures via YouTube. 2014. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
- ↑ "True North". Verizon Newsroom. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
- ↑ "Join the Born Perfect Consortium" (PDF). Global Media Campaign to End FGM. 2025. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
External links
- Author page at The Guardian
- "Syria's Speed Freaks, Jihad Junkies and Captagon Cartels" – Foreign Policy
- Searching for Steele – ABC Australia / Guardian Films (2013)
- Appearance on PRI's The World
- [INSERT-VIDEO-ID Captagon: Syria's War Drug – Journeyman Pictures (2014)]
Category:Living people Category:American journalists Category:American documentary filmmakers Category:Women documentary filmmakers Category:Women investigative journalists Category:The Guardian journalists Category:Alumni of University College London Category:Alumni of Goldsmiths, University of London
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