Eliza Mackintosh is Senior Editor for Investigations and Enterprise, covering Europe, the Middle East and Africa, based in London. During her time at CNN, she has reported on conflict, disinformation, terror, migration and gender inequality. As an editor, she oversees work blending traditional reporting with open-source techniques to investigate events, with a focus on accountability.

In 2024, she won two News Emmy Awards and an Edward Murrow Award for her work with CNN teams reporting on the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. In 2023, CNN’s breaking news coverage of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which she contributed to from Lviv, won an Emmy. In 2022, she was part of a team that won an Emmy for a series of investigations exposing atrocities carried out in Ethiopia’s civil war.

In recent years, Mackintosh has worked on investigations into Belarus’ role concealing Russian casualties, the killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in the West Bank, child labor in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s cobalt mines, and a Syrian mother’s attempts to flee ISIS-held Raqqa. That teamwork has received a number of awards, including an Alfred I. duPont – Columbia University Award, a SABEW Best in Business Award and a Peabody Award.

In 2018, she helped launch As Equals, a CNN series on gender inequality initially backed by the European Journalism Centre and now funded by the the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. As part of the series, she reported on women’s rights and health in Senegal.

Prior to joining CNNI in 2016, Mackintosh worked as a journalist and editor at Storyful, a social journalism startup. She also reported for the Washington Post as a special correspondent in London.