Ayala Panievsky

Ayala Panievsky is a researcher and former journalist specialising in populism, media under attack, and democratic backsliding at City, St George's University of London. She holds a PhD from Cambridge University, which has won numerous prizes, including the ICA Outstanding Dissertation Award and the AEJMC Best Dissertation Award, and garnered attention from high-profile journalists and thinkers globally. Panievsky works with newsrooms worldwide to improve the future of news and what we get to know in times of sophisticated threats to democracy. Her impactful research was featured in media outlets like the BBC, The News Agents, The Wall Street Journal, LBC, Mother Jones, and Politico.