Makana Eyre

Greetings. I'm Makana Eyre, an American journalist based in Paris. I write about politics and current events for various publications (see below). My first book will be published by WW Norton & Company in the United States, Thomas Rap in the Netherlands, and Editura RAO in Romania. I am a graduate of the Columbia Journalism School. 

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To get in touch, send me an email via this contact form. Or you can reach out to my agent, Grace Ross of Regal Hoffmann.

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Selected recent work:

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• The Bard—One man’s quest to save the music of the Holocaust The Atavist

• Europe Is Telling Gay Asylum Seekers They Are Not Gay Enough The Nation

• Poland Is Purging Its Prosecutors Foreign Policy

• Why India Just Stripped 1.9 Million People of Citizenship The Nation

• Ahead of elections, Poland’s conservative media fires up anti-LGBTQ propaganda Coda Story

• Poland’s two-faced immigration strategy Politico Europe

• Poland’s Government Is Systematically Silencing Opposition Voices Foreign Policy

• Europe embraces Hawaii’s culinary culture via poke bowls The Honolulu Star-Advertiser

• The Button The Sun Magazine

• Secretly recorded video underscores months-long threat to Austrian media The Columbia Journalism Review

• New plugin allows the far-right to ‘graffiti’ any website The Columbia Journalism Review

• Here, here: the Swedish online love army who take on the trolls The Guardian

• Une “armée de l’amour” pour contrer les trolls en ligne Courrier International 

• French prosecutors tied to Macron attempt newsroom raid after critical stories The Columbia Journalism Review 

• Mayor’s murder pushes Polish media to look hard at itself The Columbia Journalism Review

• Journalists harassed and assaulted at Yellow Vest protests across France The Columbia Journalism Review

• Haitians In France: The Youth And Their Search For Haiti The Haitian Times

• Haitians In France: A First Look Into Their Lives And Community The Haitian Times