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Event 11: Anna Bosch and Gary Knight in conversation with Borja Santos Porras
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Fri, Sep 11, 2026
11:20 AM – 12:10 PM (GMT+2)
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What happens when an image we thought we knew reveals a different story? How are the narratives that shape our understanding of international conflicts constructed? And what does it mean to pursue truth in an age of disinformation, competing narratives and information warfare?
Inspired by the questions raised in The Stringer, the acclaimed Netflix documentary produced by Gary Knight, this conversation brings together Knight, one of the world’s leading photojournalists, and veteran international correspondent Anna Bosch to explore the power of images, frontline reporting and the responsibility of those who document history as it unfolds.
Moderated by Borja Santos Porras, Vice Dean of IE School of Politics, Economics and Global Affairs, the discussion broadens the conversation beyond journalism to examine how international narratives are shaped—and challenged. Bringing together the perspectives of a photojournalist, a foreign correspondent and a scholar of global affairs, the panel will explore who gets to tell the stories that define our understanding of the world, why those stories matter, and why the search for truth begins with the willingness to look again.
Event in English with simultaneous interpretation into Spanish.
Speakers
Borja Santos
Associate Vice Dean at the IE School of Politics, Economics and Global Affairs
IE University
https://www.linkedin.com/in/borja-santos-porras/?locale=es_ES
Gary Knight
CEO of the VII Foundation
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-knight-vii/
As an aspiring young photojournalist in South East Asia in the 1980’s, Gary Knight (b. 1964, UK) supplemented his meager picture sales by selling his own blood. In the Balkans, he developed his career working on the frontlines in that violent civil war, where he met lifelong friends Alexandra Boulat, Ron Haviv, Christopher Morris, and James Nachtwey, who, with Antonin Kratochvil and John Stanmeyer all became founding members of VII Photo Agency. Crisscrossing the globe for Newsweek and building networks everywhere, he saw the demise of the traditional photo agency model and the early signs of decline in print media. His determination and vision led to the creation of VII. As Executive Director of The VII Foundation, he leads a team that supports fiercely independent journalism and trains and mentors a new generation of journalists in the Majority World, who are best placed to tell their communities’ stories to the world.
Anna Bosch
Senior Correspondent
https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-bosch-1737b01b/
Specialized in international journalism, Bosch was part of the team that launched the pan-European news channel Euronews. She has worked for Antena3 Radio, Cadena 13 and Cadena SER; she has worked as a correspondent for Televisión Española in Moscow, Washington and London, and has been a special envoy to cover events around the world, such as the second Chechen war or the election of Barack Obama and Donald Trump as presidents of the United States. She is co-author, together with journalist Pablo R. Suanzes, of the book Europa soy yo: Conversación entre Anna Bosch y Pablo R. Suanzes (5W, 2019), a reflection on the Brexit, Eurocentrism, the loss of trust in institutions and the journalistic task in capitals such as Brussels, London and Moscow. In 2013, Bosch won the Salvador de Madariaga Journalism Award in the television category, and in 2020, the Ernest Udina Award for Europeanist trajectory.