Journalist & Author

Richard
Powell

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

British · International

Founder, Presswire & Greatreporter
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After graduating from Southampton, Richard worked across the BBC and Press Association, and freelanced for news organisations in conflict areas worldwide, before turning to luxury travel writing.

He founded Greatreporter, a platform for emerging journalists, and Presswire, the global newswire and media contact database used by PR professionals across 150 countries.

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.

Field Reports & Journalism

Reporting from conflict zones and media frontlines — published by the BBC, Press Gazette and Presswire across more than two decades of international journalism.

BBC News Conflict & Foreign Affairs