Allegra Goodwin

Visual Investigations Reporter

Allegra Goodwin is an Emmy Award-winning Visual Investigations Reporter with CNN’s investigative unit, based in London.
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As Syria’s president preaches human rights, new evidence details abuse allegedly carried out under one of his key commanders
Jun 12, 2025
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Video Women detail alleged abuses carried by militia under commander now in Syria’s top military brass 6:51
Jun 12, 2025
CNN investigates allegations of rape, torture and abuse under a commander now promoted to a top role in Syria’s new military.
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‘Ethnic cleansing!’ Videos show Syrian government-aligned forces reveling in massacre of minorities in coastal town
Mar 17, 2025
A CNN investigation sheds light on the massacre of an Alawite community in al-Sanobar, or Pine village, where government-aligned forces subjected largely unarmed villagers to summary executions, looting, arson and sectarian slurs, and bodies were piled up in two mass graves.
At least three Israeli airstrikes hit close to Hiram Hospital in Tyre, Southern Lebanon, damaging its courtyard.
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Israeli military dropped bombs in ‘lethal proximity’ of at least 19 Lebanese hospitals, CNN analysis finds
Nov 2, 2024
The ground shook, windows shattered, and the cries of patients filled the air. An Israeli bomb had just struck Beirut’s southern suburbs in yet another near-nightly attack – this time hitting a building across the street from Lebanon’s biggest public hospital.
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Video See how data analyses contradicts Netanyahu’s claim about war in Gaza 4:16
Aug 5, 2024
Nearly half of Hamas’ military battalions in northern and central Gaza have rebuilt some of their fighting capabilities despite more than nine months of Israel’s brutal offensive, according to analyses by the DC-based American Enterprise Institute’s Critical Threats Project, the Institute for the Study of War and CNN. Watch our investigation.
In this picture taken from a video, fire rages following an Israeli strike on an area designated for displaced Palestinians in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 26, 2024.
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US-made munitions used in deadly strike on Rafah tent camp, CNN analysis shows
May 29, 2024
Munitions made in the United States were used in the deadly Israeli strike on a displacement camp in Rafah on Sunday, a CNN analysis of video from the scene and a review by explosive weapons experts has found.
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Strapped down, blindfolded, held in diapers: Israeli whistleblowers detail abuse of Palestinians in shadowy detention center
May 10, 2024
At a military base that now doubles as a detention center in Israel’s Negev desert, an Israeli working at the facility snapped two photographs of a scene that he says continues to haunt him.
WCK said its team was traveling in a “deconflicted zone” when the attack took place.
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Israeli attack that killed aid workers consistent with multiple precision strikes, analysis shows
Apr 3, 2024
A deadly Israeli attack that killed seven aid workers from the non-profit World Central Kitchen (WCK) in Gaza on Monday appears to have consisted of multiple precision strikes, a CNN analysis of aftermath videos and images found.
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Israeli road splitting Gaza in two has reached the Mediterranean coast, satellite imagery shows
Mar 8, 2024
A road being built by the Israeli military splitting Gaza in two has reached the Mediterranean coast, a CNN analysis of satellite imagery shows. It’s part of a security plan to control the territory for months and possibly years to come, Israeli officials have said.
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Anesthetics, crutches, dates. Inside Israel’s ghost list of items arbitrarily denied entry into Gaza
Mar 2, 2024
Humanitarian workers and government officials working to deliver urgently needed aid for Gaza as disease and near-famine grip large parts of the coastal enclave say a clear pattern has emerged of Israeli obstruction of the multi-billion-dollar humanitarian effort.
GAZA CITY, GAZA - OCTOBER 31: A view from the area after Israeli airstrikes on Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, on October 31, 2023. Palestinians, including children killed in a series of Israeli airstrikes on Jabalia refugee camp, Interior Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday. Israeli attacks continue on the 25th day in Gaza. (Photo by Stringer/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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‘Not seen since Vietnam’: Israel dropped hundreds of 2,000-pound bombs on Gaza, analysis shows
Dec 22, 2023
In the first month of its war in Gaza, Israel dropped hundreds of massive bombs, many of them capable of killing or wounding people more than 1,000 feet away, analysis by CNN and artificial intelligence company Synthetaic suggests.
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How a rave turned into a frenzied massacre
Oct 14, 2023
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Video How Hamas trapped civilians at music festival 4:24
Oct 14, 2023
CNN has verified more than 50 videos and spoken to 12 survivors to reveal how the deadly assault on a music festival in Israel last weekend unfolded. Katie Polglase reports that an analysis of these videos established Hamas militants attacked the festival from three sides, trapping civilians and pursuing those that fled.
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Shot at while they drowned. Executed in the desert. Those who collected the bodies recount ‘one of the worst days’ in Darfur’s genocide-scarred history
Aug 29, 2023
As the killing continues unabated in Sudan, with reports that the violence is accelerating, CNN’s investigation into atrocities carried out over a single day in June offers a window into the scale of abuses, largely hidden from view.

About

Allegra Goodwin is an Emmy Award-winning Visual Investigations Reporter with CNN’s investigative unit, based in London.

In this role, Goodwin blends traditional reporting skills with forensic analysis of audiovisual evidence to tell impactful stories, with a focus on war crimes and human rights abuses across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

She contributes to CNN’s breaking news coverage when open-source investigative techniques are required, providing rapid research, video verification and geolocation, satellite imagery analysis, and fact-checking.

Goodwin has extensively covered the Israel-Hamas war, reporting on the abuse of Palestinians at a shadowy detention facility in the Israeli desert, and using artificial intelligence to reveal the scale of Israel’s use of 2,000-pound bombs in Gaza.

Goodwin has also repeatedly broken stories about the US-manufactured weapons implicated in high-civilian-casualty incidents in Gaza, helping to drive CNN’s coverage of the issue.

Her open-source reporting earned her three Emmy Awards and an Edward R. Murrow award in 2024.

She joined CNN in 2021 as a news desk intern, later working as a researcher and producer covering breaking news for CNN’s TV and digital platforms, including 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.

Previously, Goodwin worked as a digital journalist at ITV News, reporting on global stories and producing exclusives and multiplatform features.

She 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.