Belinda Goldsmith

Global media director at Save the Children after 27 yrs at Reuters. Author of charity book Lockdown Letterboxes. Juggles work with 2 grown kids, 2 dogs, running

[Belinda Goldsmith @BeeGoldsmith]

New data shows over 3,500 children – equivalent to 177 classrooms - killed or injured in the Ukraine war in the past four years with numbers rising this year. This war and the impact on children cannot be overlooked https://t.co/7cZnrEoEn6

[Belinda Goldsmith @BeeGoldsmith]

Delighted to be moderating at the 2026 Engaging Digital Communications Conference in London today. Thinking about shifting to a new emerging digital platform? Seeking new or better audience engagement? Some good discussions on what can - and doesn’t - work for comms & media teams

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Source: Save the Children International https://t.co/ail6v4N4kT

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@robmcgibbon @ChrisGPackham So true! We need more and stronger local journalism.

[Save the Children Global Media @Save_GlobalNews]

BREAKING: Children already bearing the brunt of the escalation of hostilities in #Iran #MiddleEast. “Wars have laws. Children & schools are off limits,” Inger Ashing, @Save_Children CEO, calling for adherence to humanitarian law.
➡️https://t.co/hjFpxUSFpJ

[Belinda Goldsmith @BeeGoldsmith]

Fabulous story @pressgazette about my former colleague @robmcgibbon and very good friend. So important to have strong local journalism for accountability and transparency. Great newspaper to fund! https://t.co/M4rfqKTgv9

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"Sudan's catastrophic conflict has made life a living hell for upwards of 15.6 million children. For 1000 days children have been displaced, hungry, & experiencing appalling violence." Mohamed Abdiladif @save_children in #Sudan is available for interviews

https://t.co/vFgUpBSjws

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Save the Children calls for the Government of Israel to urgently reconsider new registration rules for international non-governmental organisations that could undermine the delivery of life-saving humanitarian assistance to Gaza and the West Bank.
https://t.co/mQtZxSKGqe

[Belinda Goldsmith @BeeGoldsmith]

Such fantastic entries for our second annual Save the Children Media Awards. Check out the winners below - and the amazing finalists. Mega thanks to all our judges and the entrants. So important to put a spotlight on child rights globally.

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🏆SAVE THE CHILDREN'S GLOBAL MEDIA AWARDS 2025 🏆

The winners of our global media awards are here for best reporting on child rights:
📰WRITTEN NEWS: Republik & @WAVkollektiv
📸PHOTOGRAPHY: @AFPphoto
🎥BROADCAST: @guardian
🎙️RADIO/PODCAST: @BBCRadio4

➡️https://t.co/IVYCRrdqBh

[Belinda Goldsmith @BeeGoldsmith]

After being on the brink of famine in 2022, the situation in #Somalia is again getting worse with a national drought emergency called. We have spokespeople for media available.

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PRESS RELEASE: 'Slow motion catastrophe' in #Somalia as national drought declaration and aid cuts worsen the country's hunger crisis. @save_children

https://t.co/v1IG1YuELm

[Belinda Goldsmith @BeeGoldsmith]

Delighted to attend the launch of BBC Global Women by the @bbcworldservice @KirstyWark that aims to reach women & girls around the world with trusted news at a time of reductions in press freedom. Great initiative.

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FEATURED: @AbdurahmanShar opinion piece in @AJEnglish

"This is not just another natural disaster – it is a collision of disasters for Afghanistan"

#AfghanistanEarthquake

https://t.co/h9p2XnF2e9

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PRESS RELEASE: Countries in #Africa risk running out of ‘wonder’ food over the next 3 months due to aid cuts. "Hunger knows no borders and no limits and is a force that drains a child's energy." @ESASavechildren's @YvonneArunga
https://t.co/rnRuTnbHEb

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GAZA: At least 132,000 children aged under 5 at risk of death from acute malnutrition "This engineered famine is the ultimate & inevitable result of the Government of Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon of war." @ingerashing @SaveCEO_Intl

https://t.co/MEhtH882I7

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Final day in #Southsudan after visiting Bor & Maban with a press conference highlighting the devastating impact of aid cuts on children. Our country director @chrisnyamandi, Save the Children Canada & Switzerland CEOs @DGlenwright & @SaveCEO_CH available for interviews.

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Spent World Humanitarian
Day #WHD in one of South Sudan’s biggest refugee camps in #Maban. Stories of people who fled Sudan’s conflict were heartbreaking. A 17-yr-old whose parents were killed was so traumatised he could hardly speak. Aid money is so needed to provide support.

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Devastating that 100 children now confirmed to have died of starvation in #Gaza. The true number is likely far higher. Access for aid is desperately needed - and now.

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GAZA: “What kind of a world have we built to let at least 100 children be starved to death while the food, water and medical supplies to save them wait just miles away at a border crossing?" @AhmadAlhendawi @save_children

https://t.co/J1cMQul0Ag

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JOINT STATEMENT: As mass starvation spreads across #Gaza, more than 100 NGOs make urgent plea to allow in life-saving aid

https://t.co/ZriZCtBpWf

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If you are looking for a spokeperson for media, DM us.

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FEATURED: @Independent

Ahead of tomorrow's ICJ Advisory Opinion on climate change, @a_hammerschlag of @AP visits our climate programmes in Vanuatu.

"For children in Vanuatu, climate change isn’t a theory — it’s a classroom, or the lack of one."

https://t.co/veg9GPWwG1

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🚨BREAKING: For the first time since its founding in 1944, @AFP fears its journalists in Gaza may starve to death.

The agency has issued a desperate statement about the catastrophic conditions facing its last remaining reporters inside the besieged Strip.

Full statement below :
Without immediate intervention, AFP’s last remaining journalists in Gaza could die.
Agence France-Presse (AFP) currently works with one freelance writer, three photographers, and six freelance video journalists in the Gaza Strip — the only ones left documenting what’s happening on the ground. No international media has been allowed into Gaza for nearly two years.

We refuse to stand by and watch them die.

One of them, Bashar, has been with AFP since 2010. He started as a field assistant, then worked as a freelance photographer, and became the lead photographer in 2024.

On Saturday, July 19, Bashar managed to post on Facebook:
“I no longer have the strength to work in the media. My body is thin. I can’t work anymore.”

Bashar, 30, lives and works under the same conditions as every Gazan moving from one refugee camp to another to escape Israeli bombardments. For over a year, he has lived in extreme poverty and continued working despite immense risks.

Sanitation is a major issue; he suffers from severe bouts of diarrhea. Since February, he has lived in the ruins of his home in Gaza City with his mother, four siblings, and his brother’s family. The home has no furniture, no electricity, no water he survives on scraps from relatives.

On Sunday, he reported that his older brother “collapsed from hunger.”

Even though these journalists receive monthly payments from AFP, the salaries barely or do not at all cover the soaring market prices. The banking system has collapsed, and the intermediaries who transfer money into Gaza take commissions as high as 40%.

AFP cannot provide equipment or even fuel so they can travel for work. Traveling by car means risking becoming a target of Israeli drones so they walk or use donkey carts.

Ahlem, based in the south of Gaza, says she’s trying to “keep bearing witness” for as long as she can:
“Every time I leave the tent to cover an event, interview someone, or document a scene I don’t know if I’ll come back alive.”
Her biggest struggle, she says, is finding food and water.

We are watching them collapse.
They are young, but their strength is fading. Most can no longer move around Gaza to report. Their pleas for help have become a daily cry torn, desperate messages.

In recent days, their notes have grown shorter and weaker they no longer have the strength to even send us updates.