Obi Anyadike

Founded in 1995 by the United Nations in response to the Rwandan genocide, The New Humanitarian is a pioneering global news organization that provides critical and impartial coverage of humanitarian crises. With a firm belief that informed reporting can help avert or alleviate large-scale disasters, the entity emerged as an independent non-profit news platform nearly two decades later. This evolution allowed The New Humanitarian to scrutinize the multi-billion-dollar emergency aid industry more critically and spotlight its shortcomings during times of unparalleled humanitarian need.

As the digital world grappled with disinformation and mainstream media withdrew from numerous international crisis zones, The New Humanitarian's high-quality, field-based journalism filled a significant void. Today, it is among the few specialized newsrooms globally that focus on crisis and disaster coverage while holding the aid industry accountable.

In 2019, the organization rebranded as The New Humanitarian, signaling its transition from a UN project to an independent newsroom and its role in documenting the evolving nature of - and responses to - humanitarian crises. True to its mission, The New Humanitarian continues to inform crisis prevention and response by amplifying the voices of those most affected, highlighting overlooked crises, and resisting superficial sensational narratives about current emergencies.