Associate World Editor @theipaper. Long-time foreign correspondent. RTs not endorsements. DMs open.
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Really sorry to see so many extremely talented journalists let go from the Washington Post. I'm a foreign editor at The i Paper in the UK. I welcome pitches about the US and rest of the world! Please reach out. Good luck everyone.
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Revealed: Britain bankrolling fossil fuel projects in Africa despite UK's net-zero pledges
@luciemheath investigated the impact in Ghana for @theipaper - from soaring energy bills to claims of 'carbon colonialism'
inews.co.uk/news/environment…
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We did it 🪅
The i Paper scooped Website of the Year at last night's #FutureMediaAwards hosted by @pressgazette
Congrats to the team!
Now onto our final award: Website of the Year (National/International) sponsored by PushPushGo - and the winner is @theipaper! #FutureMediaAwards
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I’m beyond thrilled that @Ay_Da_Ray, @KitGillet, and I are finalists for the 2024 British Journalism Awards in the Social Affairs, Diversity & Inclusion Journalism category. A huge honour, but this wouldn't have been possible without the bravery of our sources in Iran!
Congratulations to all the finalists for the 2024 Press Gazette British Journalism Awards for public interest journalism. And thank you to our sponsors: @StarlingBank, @amazon and @RenewableUK. Here is this year's shortlists (news provider of the year shortlist still to come).
I picked up an old copy of @MishaGlenny's 1990 book on Eastern Europe from a charity shop this morning, and inside I found a newspaper clipping about Romania from circa 1990/91 (likely used as a bookmark by the previous owner)! Lovely sense of history
The Unyielding City: How Ukraine lost Bakhmut and Russia won a hollow victory businessinsider.com/bakhmut-…
Hats off to @gcaw for my favorite kicker in weeks:
"Crow looked ruffled. Even weirder than having Nazi memorabilia in your house is having it in your house but somehow losing track of it." theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
Meet the government robot tracking Romanians’ concerns ft.com/content/4b54c74d-5df9… @McGrathWriter @johnthornhillft
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30 years after covering Moldova’s short & bloody war I return to interview its president @sandumaiamd She has a nightmarish challenge to steer her country into the EU - but a steely core. "I am stubborn" she says as she drives off in her lone Skoda.
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This is beautiful and heart-wrenching. Please read if you have the chance: 'My Transplanted Heart and I Will Die Soon' nytimes.com/2023/04/18/opini…
This is some pretty depressing drone footage showing the utter ruin of Bakhmut after months of bitter fighting businessinsider.com/drone-fo…
An old article, but a brilliant one and something I heartily agree with! (Would love to know who wrote it): Flashman, the foreign correspondent’s role model economist.com/christmas-spec…
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What was Nancy Pelosi reading on the House floor today during the Speaker vote?
A remarkable capture by @AP_Images.
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After years of reading spy fiction and wondering where all the women were, I asked MI6 if I could speak to their top female spies about the realities of being a women in espionage. I met Kathy, Ada and Rebecca, and here is their story:
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UK’s first new coalmine for 30 years gets go-ahead in Cumbria theguardian.com/environment/…
