Allegra Goodwin - Visual Investigations Reporter
Allegra Goodwin
Visual Investigations Reporter
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‘Happy (and safe) shooting!’ AI chatbots helped teen users plan violence in hundreds of testsMar 11, 2026As chatbots explode in popularity among young people, CNN’s investigation found that most of those we tested are not only failing to prevent potential harm – they are actively assisting users by giving them information that could be used in preparing attacks. -
Photos appear to show US Tomahawk missile fragments at site of deadly Iran school strikeMar 10, 2026Missile debris that Iranian officials claim was recovered from the deadly strikes which hit a naval base and elementary school in southern Iran on February 28 appears to be from an American Tomahawk cruise missile, according to CNN analysis. -
Bodies appeared in Sudan’s canals ‘every few days.’ CNN investigates whyDec 16, 2025CNN verified hundreds of videos, analyzed satellite imagery, tracked down whistleblowers and interviewed survivors on the ground in Sudan to uncover evidence of ethnic violence by the Sudanese army, which included the mass killing of civilians and the dumping of bodies into canals and mass graves. -
As Syria’s president preaches human rights, new evidence details abuse allegedly carried out under one of his key commandersJun 12, 2025
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• Video 6:51Video Women detail alleged abuses carried by militia under commander now in Syria’s top military brass 6:51Jun 12, 2025CNN investigates allegations of rape, torture and abuse under a commander now promoted to a top role in Syria’s new military. -
‘Ethnic cleansing!’ Videos show Syrian government-aligned forces reveling in massacre of minorities in coastal townMar 17, 2025A 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. -
Israeli military dropped bombs in ‘lethal proximity’ of at least 19 Lebanese hospitals, CNN analysis findsNov 2, 2024The 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. -
• Video 4:16Video See how data analyses contradicts Netanyahu’s claim about war in Gaza 4:16Aug 5, 2024Nearly 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. -
US-made munitions used in deadly strike on Rafah tent camp, CNN analysis showsMay 29, 2024Munitions 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. -
Strapped down, blindfolded, held in diapers: Israeli whistleblowers detail abuse of Palestinians in shadowy detention centerMay 10, 2024At 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. -
Israeli attack that killed aid workers consistent with multiple precision strikes, analysis showsApr 3, 2024A 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. -
Israeli road splitting Gaza in two has reached the Mediterranean coast, satellite imagery showsMar 8, 2024A 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. -
Anesthetics, crutches, dates. Inside Israel’s ghost list of items arbitrarily denied entry into GazaMar 2, 2024Humanitarian 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. -
‘Not seen since Vietnam’: Israel dropped hundreds of 2,000-pound bombs on Gaza, analysis showsDec 22, 2023In 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. -
How a rave turned into a frenzied massacreOct 14, 2023 -
• Video 4:24Video How Hamas trapped civilians at music festival 4:24Oct 14, 2023CNN 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. -
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 historyAug 29, 2023As 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 has earned her four Emmy Awards and an Edward R. Murrow award. In 2026, Goodwin was shortlisted for the Amnesty International Gaby Rado New Journalist Award.
Goodwin 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.
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.
