Once RTÉ’s youngest foreign correspondent, veteran journalist Orla Guerin is now BBC News correspondent covering the Middle East.

Caelainn Hogan’s long-form essay work features in many publications, including The New York Times Magazine, which recently ran her cover story Braving Cancer Amid the Chaos of Syria. 

The Guardian described Samanth Subramanian’s harrowing recent book This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan Civil War (2015) as ‘a ne literary monument against the government’s attempt at imposed forgetfulness’. How do stories resonate through different time frames?

Explore the future of reporting in an age of always-on news and instant opinion with this Irish-based panel and chair Brendan Barrington, editor of The Dublin Review.