Allegra Goodwin

Researcher, Open-source Intelligence (OSINT)

Allegra Goodwin is an Emmy-award winning researcher on the open-source intelligence (OSINT) team, based at CNN’s London bureau.

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Allegra Goodwin is an Emmy-award winning researcher on the open-source intelligence (OSINT) team, based at CNN’s London bureau.

In this role, Goodwin has led OSINT research on multiple major investigations, including several as part of CNN Chief International Investigative Correspondent Nima Elbagir’s award-winning team.

She has extensively covered the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, publishing reports on?the stranglehold Israel has placed on humanitarian aid entering Gaza, the October 7 massacre at the Nova music festival in Israel?and Israel’s use of 2,000-pound bombs in Gaza. Goodwin has also contributed to CNN’s breaking news coverage of the conflict, providing fast-paced open-source research, verifying and geolocating video, analyzing satellite imagery and fact-checking, such as in her analysis of the Israeli airstrike which killed seven World Central Kitchen aid workers in the Gaza strip.

Goodwin joined CNN in 2021 as an intern on the news desk. She worked as a news desk researcher and producer covering breaking news for CNN’s TV and digital platforms, contributing to daily coverage of Russia’s war on Ukraine and the conflict in Sudan.

In 2023, she was part of the CNN team that won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Live Breaking News Coverage for reporting on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

She has also worked as a digital journalist at ITV News, reporting on news from around the world while also producing exclusives and multiplatform features.

Goodwin holds a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature from the University of Leeds and a Master’s degree in Journalism from the University of Sheffield.