Michael white guardian biography templates

Jon began his Guardian career in reporting from Amsterdam. In he moved to Helsinki where he covered Scandinavia and the Baltics. He became Paris Correspondent in and the Bureau Chief from In he spent time reporting from Sierra Leone and Kosovo. Jeevan Vasagar, the Guardian's East and Central Africa Correspondent, will return to London to take up a post as home news reporter in the spring.

Vasagar joined the Guardian as a home news reporter in , and regularly filled in as Berlin Correspondent, reporting for the paper from Germany and Austria before moving to Nairobi in to report from across sub-Saharan Africa. Is there a story that you wish you had written? I never wrote my best scoop.

Michael white guardian biography templates

People might have been killed. And did my source have a suspect ulterior motive? There have been many, none prompted by me; battles with government — I admire Edward Snowden as I did not Julian Assange — and risky libel victories. Which of the journalists who you have worked with do you most admire? I have admired and deplored all my editors, loved my Westminster colleagues, notably Ian Aitken and the much-missed Simon Hoggart, the naughty boy.

I admired the leader writer and war hero Mark Arnold-Forster and Mick Downing, father of the NUJ chapel, because they were both understated, and idealistic without being naive, though I would prefer to have been marooned on a desert island with the great cartoonist Posy Simmonds. Can you sum up the organisation in a sentence? More than most, the Guardian tries to do the decent thing and sometimes it succeeds.

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