Gad World is a fearless media platform born from a simple, uncomfortable realisation: the world is becoming more unstable and unjust – shaped by war, climate change, systemic upheaval, democratic decline and the erosion of international law – just as on-the-ground journalism is becoming increasingly rare.
Free media are now under threat in ways we have not seen before: from billionaires, global tech companies and a growing authoritarian order. Foreign reporting is often the first to be cut. The Washington Post is laying off correspondents. AFP is reducing costs. In Swedish newspapers, presence – at home and abroad – is being replaced by cut-and-paste journalism.
Gad World moves in the opposite direction: into closed worlds that many people have opinions about, but few understand beneath the surface. We report from the ground, far from the desk, speaking with people rather than about them.
Our work is grounded in international law and human rights. We investigate wars, the climate crisis and abuses against civilians. We expose violations of international law regardless of who commits them, or which alliances protect them. Our mission is not to make the world feel comfortable. It is to bring to light what those in power would rather keep hidden.
At a time when international law is being eroded and the conditions for human life are under threat, this kind of journalism is needed more than ever. We do not produce content for quick clicks. We do not replace knowledge with opinion. We place facts, presence and people’s own voices at the centre, in order to build a more informed and aware public.
Those who have been dehumanised are humanised.
Those who have been silenced are heard.
As a reader, you are given a front-row seat as history unfolds. You come as close as possible to the realities we encounter. With us, you are not a consumer, but part of the journalism. You can ask questions, follow the work and help shape it.
Everything we do is funded by readers – precisely so that we are not dependent on individual billionaires, corporations or centres of power that can pull the emergency brake when journalism becomes costly or uncomfortable.
Together, we make the world visible.
The founder of Gad World
Magda Gad is an award-winning journalist, war correspondent and honorary doctorate holder who has reported from the ground in some of the most violent conflicts of our time, including Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Ukraine and Myanmar.
She has received more than 30 awards and nominations for her work, including the Swedish Grand Journalism Award, the Kristallen Award, Journalist of the Year, the Stig Dagerman Prize and an honorary medal from the Nordic Veterans’ Associations.
Magda Gad’s journalism centres on the people who live with the consequences of war, violence and political decisions. She is known for amplifying voices that are rarely heard, and for combining investigative reporting with powerful storytelling. This has made her one of the most prominent voices in international journalism.
She often works under extreme conditions, using a method built on presence, trust and long-term relationships in conflict zones. Magda Gad has not only travelled to war zones. She has lived in them for years.
Her reporting has exposed war crimes, sexual violence and abuses against civilians, as well as the geopolitical forces shaping conflicts. She has documented both victims and perpetrators, often in places where few journalists operate and where the outside world has the least insight.
In Somalia and Ethiopia, she has shown how climate change intensifies war, poverty and human suffering. She has met mothers burying their children during drought, and was also on the ground when a city in Libya was swept into the sea by a storm intensified by global warming.
Alongside her work in traditional media, Magda Gad has built one of the largest independent social media platforms for war reporting, with hundreds of thousands of followers engaging with her updates. She has become a central voice in the public debate on international law and the role of the media, and has repeatedly challenged established narratives about conflict and geopolitics.
The work has involved significant personal risk. Magda Gad has lived in Afghanistan under Taliban rule, been smuggled into hidden wars and reported directly from front lines. She has witnessed illegal mining operations and interviewed terrorists, war criminals, bomb-makers and rapists.
With Gad World, she brings together her method, experience and global network in an independent journalism platform built in her own spirit.