Journalist & Author

Richard
Powell

Geo-politics · Conflict Reporting · Travel
BBC · Press Association · HuffPost · and beyond

British · International

Founder, Presswire, greatreporter & UKTECH

Richard Powell is a British investigative journalist and foreign correspondent with more than two decades of conflict reporting – beginning in Kosovo as a journalism student, then Iraq, Sudan, Liberia and Beirut, for the BBC, the Press Association and news organisations worldwide. Since 2024 he has published more than 550 reports on Gaza; they form the evidentiary foundation of his book, Pariah: How Gaza Broke Israel.

He is the founder of the news sites greatreporter and UKTECH, and of Presswire, the global newswire and media contact database used by PR professionals worldwide. His travel writing has been published by HuffPost and in print around the world.

Geo-politics Conflict Travel Business Culture Technology

New Book · 2026

Pariah: How Gaza Broke Israel

A chronicle of witness, silence and reckoning in the world's first livestreamed genocide · 479 pages

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Areas of Coverage

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Geo-politics & Conflict

International affairs, conflict zones, foreign policy and the forces reshaping the global order — reported from the ground.

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Luxury Travel

Destination and culture features published across global print and digital outlets — from Antarctica to the Faroe Islands.

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Feature Writing

Business, technology, culture and beyond — a journalist with the range to write authoritatively on any subject editors require.

Archive · 1998–1999

Latin American News Agency

The First
Dispatches

Before the conflict zones — the story of how a 20-year-old journalism student co-founded a news agency, broke a Sunday Mirror exclusive, filmed a documentary in Havana, and reported from a Kurdish siege in London. All six original articles and the full Cuba documentary script are available to read.

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1998 LANA founded. Pinochet protests, London. First national press placement.

Jan ‘99 Sunday Mirror exclusive — pro-Pinochet rent-a-mob exposed.

Feb ‘99 Cuba: Trouble at 40 — documentary filmed in Havana, UK Ambassador interviewed.

1999 Kurdish dispatch from Holland Park. Meningitis investigation linking US sanctions to student deaths.