Douglas Burton is an award-winning conflict reporter specializing in Nigerian war news. 

Doug mentors conflict reporters in North-Central Nigeria as Managing Editor of TruthNigeria.com. Since 2019 he has authored hundreds of reports appearing in The Epoch Times, The Catholic News Agency, and Providence Magazine, among others.  His work has been featured in Fox Nation, Christian Broadcasting Network; Epoch Times TV; The Westminster Institute and The Washington Times.    Doug was honored by Catholic Media Association in June 2023 as a First Place Winner for Best Coverage of Religious Liberty Issues. 

“Doug Burton’s TruthNigeria is today’s most reliable news publication about Nigeria,” according to Dr Gregory Stanton, founder and president of Genocide Watch in Northern Virginia. “Every State and Defense Department and NSC officer who monitors Nigeria should read Truth Nigeria. Maybe then the US and the EU will finally support aggressive Nigerian efforts to defeat the jihadists,” Stanton has written.

Having served the Washington Times Corporation as an assignment editor for two decades, Doug brought his skills to Baghdad in 2005 to support the U.S. occupation there for two years. From 2015 he began covering the campaign against Islamic State as an independent reporter until 2017 and switched to reporting the persecution of Christians in Nigeria shortly thereafter.  He produced the most complete story about the blasphemy murder of Deborah Emmanuel on May 12, 2022, in Nigeria’s northern city of Sokoto.