Christopher Livesay

Christopher Livesay is a journalist based in Rome.

Christopher Livesay is an award-winning multimedia journalist based in Rome, Italy. His recent work focuses on Pope Francis, Europe’s debt crisis, and immigration. He has reported from Europe, Mexico, and across the US for PBS FRONTLINE, NPR, and the BBC/PRI, among other outlets, and has appeared on the CBC, FOX News and Italian state broadcaster Rai. He holds a master’s degree (highest honors) from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in New York City. Livesay is currently a staff reporter for the English and foreign desks at ANSA, the leading Italian news agency, where he was part of the team that broke the story of Benedict XVI’s shocking abdication.

Analysis: Has Amnesty International gone astray?

August 2, 2016Politics

How former Amnesty officer Gita Sahgal’s thorny opinions became too hard to defend.

Analysis: Italian mafia brokering Mexican drug trade

August 2, 2016Commentary

Where the Haiti earthquake is on everyone’s minds

August 2, 2016Agence France-Presse

Generation TBD: Rome’s unemployed youth gather for a May Day eve vigil

July 30, 2016Lifestyle

Boat refugees to Italian government: ‘Sorry if we failed to die at sea’

July 30, 2016Politics

In job-hungry Italy, neo-Fascists await young migrants

July 30, 2016Lifestyle

With the youth unemployment rate at 44 percent, competition for jobs pits native Italians against Eritreans, Sudanese and Syrians fleeing war and repression.

Austrian teachers learn how to spot Islamic State recruits

July 30, 2016Politics

The Vienna School Board has developed a process to identify radicalization in students and prevent “jihadi brides.”

Ghaith is a Syrian refugee living in Beirut. He can't work there but now he can earn a living as an online Arabic teacher.

This startup helps Syrian refugees earn a living. All they need is a laptop.

June 6, 2016Education

NaTakallam connects Syrian refugees with jobs, even in countries where they aren’t allowed to work.

The Save Kobani Facebook page. Facebook routinely takes down its posts.

After battling ISIS, Kurds find new foe in Facebook

October 7, 2015Conflict

Sweden may seem far removed from the conflict in Iraq and Syria, but for a group of Kurdish Swedes, the battle is real — on Facebook.

Peter Slanar, principal of Vienna’s Higher Commercial Vocational School, looks at a news story about his former student Samra Kesinovic who joined up with ISIS in Syria.

Austria is trying to cut down on its increasing number of ‘jihadi brides’

November 19, 2014Belief

Vienna’s classrooms are becoming the front lines in Austria’s battle to stop radicalized young people from joining the extremist group ISIS.