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Claim your profileFreelance British journalist in Berlin since 2009.28 years a journalist, so far (1997-2025) - reporter for nine years for The Guardian (political correspondent), news desk editor for AFP (Paris HQ), dpa (senior editor, Berlin HQ, for Germany's global newswire English service).Can do: 400 words/600 words/800 words/1,000 words/1,200 words/,1,500 words/2,000 words by 1400/1600/1800/2000/2200. Inquire within for details. News, features, interviews, analysis = can do them all.Early digital pioneer - live-blogging for Guardian from 2001-2007. (We had "internet", but no wifi, no Twitter, no Facebook, just a bluetooth dial-up!)Have now lived and worked in Brussels, London, Berlin, Paris, Belfast, Glasgow, and now back in Berlin again, and worked across online, global news wires, broadsheet, tabloid, radio and podcasting.Expertise: EU and UK politics, German politics, film and cinema, environment, transport.Non-work = documentary film-making about architecture and public space.






Journalism at Cardiff University / Prifysgol CaerdyddGraduated: 1997
English Literature, Literature at UclGraduated: 1996
English, Film at Dartmouth CollegeGraduated: 1995