Journalist & Author

Richard
Powell

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

Richard Powell
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
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

01 🌍
Geo-politics & Conflict

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

02 ✈
Luxury Travel

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

03 ✍
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
Sudan Reporting from Sudan — BBC News Africa BBC News · Africa → Sudan Sudan Report — CBBC Newsround BBC Newsround · Africa → Iraq Reporting from Iraq — BBC News Middle East BBC News · Middle East → Liberia Reporting from Liberia — BBC News Africa BBC News · Africa → Media Industry Media & Education Feature — BBC News UK BBC News · UK & Education →
Press Gazette Media Industry
Media & Journalism Website Links Boost Fledgling Writing Talents Press Gazette → Media & Publishing Print or Online — Which Has More Prestige? Press Gazette →
Presswire Technology & Business
Technology · CEO Interview Presswire CEO Interview with Acquisition International Presswire · Acquisition International →

The Huffington Post

THE HUFFINGTON POST
15 features published · 2012–2016
Antarctica· Trans-Siberian Train· Qatar· Iceland· St Kitts 2014· Faroe Islands· Croatian Coast· Dominica· St Kitts 2013· Bermuda· Kenya Horseback Safari· Alanya· Jamaica· Languedoc· Cyprus & Turkey

Other Publications

Square Mile Jamaica → The Diplomat St Kitts → Barbados Herald Barbados → Australian Times Bermuda → Travel Africa Bermuda → Egypt Independent Bermuda → Explore Kenya Riding Safari → Explore Trans-Siberian Train → Reiselyst (Norway) Kenya Riding Safari → South African Nevis → Sabotage Times Kenya Riding Safari → Fit Globetrotter Bermuda → L3 Magazine St Kitts Music Festival →

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.

View the archive →
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.
Southampton Echo 1998
Sunday Mirror 1999
The Visitor 1999
Southampton Independent 1999

Commission
a Feature

Available for commissions across geo-politics, conflict, travel, business and culture. Print, digital and book projects welcome.

Email
[email protected]
Links
LinkedIn Profile Amazon Author Page Pariah — Book Site Presswire Greatreporter HuffPost Archive