About Emanuel Stoakes

I am a recovering journalist who still freelances (bylines in The Guardian, New York Times, Washington Post) with experience of reporting from South East Asia and Oceania. I am currently working as a Tutor at my local university (the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand) while I finish my interminable postgraduate study. My interests cut across a range of fields and disciplines, but primarily, in accordance with current academic focus, I am keen to explore how truth (obviously a contested notion), facticity and the communicative process can be directed toward notions of justice and democracy, especially in a world system that is undergoing seismic changes (due to strategic competition between superpowers, the rise of emerging technology, climate change). I am also interested in journalism generally in terms of its shortcomings and evolution, how it can be applied anew to the facilitation of a 'public sphere' in a complex information evironment in a manner that allows for broader representation of communities, ideas and a discussion of long-term solutions to existential questions (such as 'deep adaptation' to climate change), with all the implications that accompany this. I'm also very interested in the phenomenon of the emerging far-right movement globally, since I covered the events of March 15th 2019 here in Christchurch and its aftermath (primarily for the Washington Post) - what makes people believe in the resurgent ideas that motivate white-extremist terror; how to deradicalise; is this linked to the new information environment?

Emanuel Stoakes is a freelance journalist and researcher. Bylines in a range of international outlets including The NY Times, The Washington Post, NBC digital, The Guardian, The Independent etc. Spinoff and Newsroom in Aotearoa New Zealand. TV production work with Al Jazeera, VICE, ABC Australia, ARD (Germany), ARTE and others.

NBN Episodes hosted by Emanuel:

January 27, 2024

On Disinformation

Lee McIntyre

Hosted by Emanuel Stoakes

The effort to destroy facts and make America ungovernable didn't come out of nowhere. It is the culmination of seventy years of strategic denialism. I…