Ian Urbina gave a talk at the first annual Ocean Ball was held on July 21, 2022 in Toronto to support the work of The Outlaw Ocean Project. Huge thanks to the event’s founder and host, Tim Ray.

The Society of Environmental Journalists offered an oceans of ideas for covering climate solutions, and Ian Urbina was part of the group of experts present.

Interconnected: Reporting the Climate Crisis featured unique and engaging event centered on the Pulitzer Center’s mission of quality journalism and education, bringing together journalists, editors, educators, students, and experts from around the world at the forefront of climate change and environmental reporting.

Ian Urbina speaks with Jake Spring from the Foreign Correspondence Podcast about the motivations, outcomes, and long, winding path from The Outlaw Ocean series in the New York Times to where this reporting is now inside its own non-profit news organization.

Ian Urbina speaks at a session in the three-day Festival of Ideas for Human Rights Watch staff about the human rights and environmental abuses at sea and how most people know very little about the harms inflicted on people and the environment far from shore.

For the Yale Law School event, “EU’s Citizenship Apartheid,” Ian Urbina discusses The Outlaw Ocean Project’s reporting on the invisible wall that keeps migrants out of Europe.

Ian Urbina presents, “A Discussion of E.U. Efforts to Build a Virtual Wall Across the Mediterranean,” for Central Michigan University’s Abel Endowed Lecture Series.

The 83rd Annual Overseas Press Club Award was awarded to Ian Urbina on April 21, 2022. He was honored with the Joe and Laurie Dine Award, which goes to the best international reporting in any medium dealing with human rights, for “The Secretive Prisons That Keep Migrants Out of Europe.” Appearing onstage with Urbina was Nimal Eames-Scott, who edited the investigation on behalf of the New Yorker magazine.

Daily Maverick Foreign Affairs journalist Peter Fabricius in conversation with Washington-based investigative reporter and director of The Outlaw Ocean Project Ian Urbina.

Ian Urbina was honored to appear in an interview with the University of Pennsylvania Middle East Center. Urbina discussed the current migration crisis in Libya, based largely off of his recent investigation in The New Yorker.

Ian Urbina joins Clint Watts for the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s three-part series podcast, Chain Reaction. In this episode, Urbina discusses “The Secretive Prisons That Keep Migrants Out of Europe,” the recently published in the New Yorker covering the human rights abuses taking place in migrant detention camps in Libya and the international systems enabling the continued operation of these prisons.

The Jerusalem Post interviews Ian Urbina about The Outlaw Ocean Music Project.

On Thursday, 24 February 2022, a panel of experts (Bob Sacha, Corinne Chin, Ben de la Cruz, Jessica Koscielniak) led by Lynden Steele awarded first place to "Unsafe Passage" in the Documentary Journalism category.

Ian Urbina discusses the atrocities committed at sea with co-hosts Julie Sternberg and Eve Yohalem – including murder, human trafficking, and environmental devastation–and why the oceans “often get exploited more than protected.”

In an interview with Moisés Naím, Ian Urbina reveals how Europe finances clandestine prisons for migrants.

Investigative reporter Ian Urbina discusses the brutal treatment meted out by Libya’s coast guard dealing with Europe-bound migrants.

In conversation with Andrew Dudley, investigative journalist Ian Urbina, director of The Outlaw Ocean Project, a non-profit journalism organization based in Washington, D.C., discusses environmental and human rights concerns at sea globally.

On January 27th, 2022, Ian Urbina testified before the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights about E.U. complicity in the brutal detention of migrants in Libyan prisons.

Ian Urbina speaks with Francisco Belaunde, host of the program Geomundo on TV Peru about the investigation on migrants’ prisons in Libya and the role that the EU plays in this matter.

Ian Urbina speaks on a panel hosted by the Libyan American Alliance about the reality for refugees and migrants in Libya.

Award-winning investigative journalist Ian Urbina talks to Inside Europe’s Kate Laycock about the death of a man named Aliou Candé, and the wider context of Europe’s complicity in the brutal detention of migrants in Libyan jails.

Ian Urbina speaks with WPFW’s Zein El-Amine about The Secretive Prisons That Keep Migrants Out Of Europe.

Ian Urbina speaks with host Shumita Basu about Libya's EU-funded shadow immigration system, the horrific conditions inside the detention centers, and being detained himself.