Lynzy Billing is an independent British investigative journalist, photographer and filmmaker. She has been reporting on Afghanistan and Iraq since 2019. Prior to this she was based in the Philippines where she produced investigations on the war on drugs and newborn trafficking.
In December 2022, Billing published The Night Raids, a nearly four-year investigation into the CIA’s deadly strategy of funding, and equipping Afghan special forces to target perceived enemies in Afghanistan. The investigation attempted to track the trail of civilian dead and wounded left behind by one such unit. In June 2023 her ProPublica short film “The Night Doctrine” in partnership with The New Yorker, based on the investigation, premiered at Tribeca Film Festival. It went on to screen at 15 more film festivals that year.