Lizzie Phelan is the managing director of redfish GmbH, a Berlin-based media company owned by Ruptly that focuses on creating short documentaries.
Lizzie Phelan is a freelance journalist, and her work has appeared in RT (formerly Russia Today) and the Iranian news network Press TV.
[5] She was among the western journalists held captive by pro-Qaddafi forces during the siege of the Rixos hotel in the hours prior to the fall of Tripoli.
[8] Ofcom ended the availability of Press TV in the United Kingdom in January 2012 because its license was being controlled from Iran instead of from the UK.
In December 2016 she covered Aleppo coming back under Syrian government control and was the first to report from the Old City when opposition forces were defeated.