peter-yeung.bsky.social
Roving freelance journalist. Special projects, solutions, digital storytelling, data reporting, arts, travel & food. Couteau suisse. [email protected]
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Thank you Jesse, that's very kind!!
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Thank you, Erik. It's been a decent year, which also included a trip to the Galapagos. Your recent assignment looked great!
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So that's about all for this year. Thanks for reading along and for your support.
Email me for commissions and collaborations: [email protected]
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And then finally, I was selected to be part of the
@journalismarena.eu's cohort of climate fellows for 2024, thanks to whom I'll be conducting an EU-wide investigation
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I also squeezed in a delightful assignment about what is the oldest record store in Kenya, ensuring that my freelancing career maintains its wide wide scope thevinylfactory.com/features/mel...
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Then I was off to East Africa after being awarded my third
European Journalism Centre grant, and I reported for
@contextnewsroom.bsky.social on how Kenya is developing an effective early-warning system to minimise the damage done by extreme weather www.context.news/climate-risk...
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It was also a great pleasure to start writing for Lonely Planet, with lots more to come. Here I began with a guide to my favourite part of Paris www.lonelyplanet.com/articles/lon...
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And while I'm accustomed to reporting on tropical diseases, it was the first time I did so in France - a sign of the times to come in the midst of the climate crisis. For
@telegraphnews.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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There was then a break-neck change of pace reporting on the French elections and the broader political chaos in France, which is indeed the gift that keeps on giving. Here's some of the many bits of analysis I did for @inews.co.uk and others inews.co.uk/news/world/f...
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Following that mass of solutions journalism stories, it's probably apt to say that it was an enormous enormous honour to win the top prize at this year's inaugural Solutions Journalism Network Awards thewholestory.solutionsjournalism.org/announcing-t...
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I visited Mexico City's chinampas, a kind of ancient floating garden that are proving highly effective amid climate change. They also are home the axolotl, a magical creature that regenerate its own body.
For my beloved @rtbcheerful.bsky.social
reasonstobecheerful.world/mexico-china...
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Again in Ecuador, I visited the cloud forest of Los Cedros, easily one of the most beautiful places I have ever visited, and reported on how it is a vision of a future where the rights of the natural world protected www.yesmagazine.org/environment/...
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I also looked at the growing potential of urban farming and how Quito, Ecuador, is using it to help marganalised communities thrive, for @nextcity.org nextcity.org/features/qui...
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Another big story was reporting for @cnn.com on how Colombia's capital city Bogotá is teaching men to "care" - domestic work, child support etc - in a pioneering attempt to fight gender inequality edition.cnn.com/interactive/...
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I started the year with the most painful, testing, terrifying and emotional assignment of my career: walking the Darién Gap. My in-depth piece on the week-long hike through the jungle at the mercy of thieves and people smugglers @newhumanitarian.bsky.social www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...
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Ah, this is very very cool! I'm glad it was helpful.
(p.s. apologies for my snail-like response time!)