PAULA SLIER
WAR CORRESPONDENT | SPEAKER | AUTHOR
INFORMATION WARFARE | DISINFORMATION | NARRATIVE STRATEGY | PUBLIC DIPLOMACY
PAUlA
SLIER
RECENT EVENT
“Beyond the Battlefield: The Untold Stories of War Reporting”
UPCOMING SPEAKING EVENTS
17 September
TEDxUniversityofJohannesbur
22 September at 9pm
talking at annual mini and junior city council, Johannesburg
November 17 evening
MC at the 90th anniversary dinner of ORT-JET – Johannesburg
20 +
years reporting from warzones
30+
Years of international journalism
6 000 +
LIVE INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTS
26+
CONFLICT ZONES COVERED
1 mission
Helping people understand
modern conflict
Long before I was studying information warfare, I was witnessing it.
I just didn’t have a name for it yet.
For more than 30 years, I’ve worked as a journalist, spending the past two decades reporting from war zones, political upheavals and humanitarian crises. I’ve learnt that the most important battles are often fought long before the first shot is fired.
By the time conflict reaches a battlefield, a battle for hearts, minds and attention has often been raging for years.
Over the years, I’ve seen how stories can shape what people believe, how they act and the decisions they make.
" To understand conflict, we must first understand people. "
It invited me into the home of an Algerian family grieving a daughter they had just lost in an earthquake and still finding room for me at their table. It sat me beside a 17-year-old Peshmerga girl who had traded her schoolbooks for a rifle and a childhood for a war.
Those experiences led me to the work I do today. Today, organisations are trying to build trust in increasingly sceptical environments. Leaders, governments and individuals are operating in a world where information moves faster than ever before, and people increasingly disagree on what is true.
The challenge is no longer access to information. The challenge is knowing what - and who - to trust. The ability to distinguish truth from manipulation is no longer a specialist skill. It is a leadership skill.
The most valuable currency in the world today is attention. Every platform, movement and brand is competing for it. Every day, we make decisions based on information designed to capture and hold our attention.
I work with leaders, organisations and audiences around the world to think more clearly in a world competing for their attention. Through keynote speaking, advisory work, media literacy programmes and leadership development, I help people recognise manipulation, think more critically, communicate more effectively and make better decisions.
My work draws on lessons learned in war zones, newsrooms, boardrooms and classrooms. Because the challenge of our time is not simply access to information. It’s learning how to think clearly amid noise.
Warm regards,
Paula
" modern conflict is fought
not only with weapons, but with narratives, images + information "
- paula slier
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