Vanessa Guinan-Bank works as a freelance journalist, reporter and audio producer based in Berlin. She was lead producer of the #1 narrative podcast series “Land ohne Vater” that documents a story of far-right terror, institutional failure and police misconduct in Germany from the perspective of the bereaved. For German national public radio and other media outlets, she produces features and longform reportage on social, economic and political issues. She has reported on femicides in Italy, the housing crisis in Ireland, the political and economic situation in Syria both before and after the fall of the Assad regime, and on wealth inequality in Germany. Previously, as a news assistant for the Berlin Bureau of the Washington Post, she covered news in Germany and Europe, including the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine.