Journalist & Filmmaker
Leila Barghouty is an award-winning investigative journalist specializing in high-volume FOIA and public records investigations into law enforcement, military, detention, and the long-term effects of armed conflict around the world. She’s produced feature documentaries, series, and podcasts for several major U.S. networks, and writes for both print and screen. She currently serves as a supervising producer for breaking news at The Washington Post , and is an investigative fellow at the Center for Media Inno
She has reported from the Ukraine-Poland border on combat injuries, the war court in Guantanamo Bay on the CIA’s alleged torture program, from Iraq on the aftermath of airstrikes against the Islamic State, and from refugee camps in the EU at the height of the Syrian refugee crisis. Currently, she is negotiating over 1,400 freedom of information requests on police misconduct and use-of-force with the California Reporting Project and Stanford University. Her investigations into policing in the U.S. have promp