About
Hi! I’m Liam Scott, and I’m currently a reporter at Voice of America, where I cover press freedom and disinformation. I report on global threats to media freedom, often (but not always) with a focus on Russia, China, technology and propaganda. I do everything from daily news stories to long-form features and TV packages. I'm one of just a handful of reporters in the world who exclusively cover press freedom.
I traveled to Kansas to report on the aftermath of the much-condemned 2023 raid on the Marion County Record newspaper. For that coverage, the National Press Club awarded me the 2024 Arthur Rowse Award for Examining the News Media. From Germany, I reported on the daily impact of transnational repression facing exiled Chinese and Russian journalists in Berlin, as well as how Uyghurs are keeping their culture alive in Munich.
I also reported extensively on the Russian government’s bogus jailings of American journalists Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva, starting with their arrests, culminating in their release, and every development in between. I was the lead reporter on the mini-documentary The Empty Chair, which traced the fight to secure Kurmasheva's release. It won the audience award at the 2024 Press Play Prague film festival.
My reporting and writing have also been published in outlets including Foreign Policy magazine, New Lines magazine, Coda Story, The Diplomat and DCist. I previously worked at the mass atrocity prevention organization the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, where I led the group’s work on Myanmar, Xinjiang and North Korea.
I received my bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, where I studied international politics and mass atrocity studies. I speak French and Mandarin Chinese, and I’m based in Washington.
