Layla Yammine is a bilingual Beirut-based investigative journalist, producer and researcher whose work connects institutional power and policy to the lived realities of communities across Lebanon and the Levant. She specialises in long-form, investigative and narrative audio reporting on war, politics, social justice and the cultural politics of food, with particular interests in food systems, environmental justice and the social impacts of prolonged crises. Her reporting blends immersive fieldwork, archival research, OSINT verification and multimedia storytelling to deliver rigorous, human-centred journalism.
From 2021 to 2025 Layla was a senior journalist at The Public Source, where she pitched and produced cross-language investigations and in-depth features, led editorial verification and supported newsroom workflows. Her major projects include an environmental investigation into unsafe sewage irrigation in Akkar, longform cultural reporting on Beirut’s foodways, and a multimedia piece on noise pollution in Beirut. Independently, she also published a dossier on Lebanon’s collapsing mental-health care landscape, and a multimedia longread on the history and political economy of Lebanon’s railways. These projects illustrate her thematic sweet spot where politics, social justice and food culture meet.
She is a trained OSINT practitioner (Bellingcat Masterclass), and an alumni of OpenDemocracy’s open-source verification programme. Layla regularly designs and delivers hands-on training and workshops for newsrooms, NGOs and editorial teams on verification, sourcing and audio storytelling. She has produced and scripted episodes for the Thomson Reuters Foundation Podcast (Context News) and Musawah, and completed a storytelling residency focused on migration. Her production skillset spans field interviews and recording, transcribing, editing and scripting. Alongside her reporting and production work, Layla is also a professional Arabic–English translator, specialising in editorial, journalistic, cultural, and research-driven texts.
Layla’s cross-disciplinary background informs her editorial judgement and in-depth reporting. Theatre training with Zoukak sharpened her narrative instincts and public speaking skills, making her audio and narrative pieces stronger and more grounded into the communities. Earlier roles in communications and as headquarters manager for the grassroots group Citizens in a State strengthened her project management, events coordination and media-strategy skills. These experiences make her adept at delivering turnkey projects, from pitching to publishing, and at designing and running training programmes tailored for clients’ needs.
She has bilingual bylines and collaborations across regional and international outlets and is a member of the Marie Colvin Journalists’ Network, with regular panel and media appearances.
She is currently senior content writer and producer at the creative agency Dgtl World, bringing editorial rigor and production craft to branded and editorial storytelling alike.
Layla’s multicultural, rich and colorful experiences create a unique blend of a skillset able to handle different kinds of projects and training, and she often works across languages to bring local stories to international audiences.
She is available for bilingual investigative and feature commissions, audio production, translating, training and speaking. Download her CV and press kit or contact her directly to discuss editorial projects, workshops, partnerships or just a chat over coffee!