Mathilda Mallinson is an award-winning journalist and presenter specialising in migration, displacement and human rights. She has reported for The Guardian, Telegraph, Independent, New Statesman, Evening Standard and more. She currently hosts Middle East Eye’s live show, with a strong focus on the war in Gaza, and is a columnist at Byline Times. Mathilda is co-creator and host of the multi award-winning Media Storm podcast.
Mathilda has won Gold for Best News and Politics Podcast at the British Podcast Awards, Silver for Best Presenter at the Radio Academy Awards, and been shortlisted for Interviewer of The Year at the British Journalism Awards. She and her co-host, Helena Wadia, proudly featured in The Guardian’s ‘5 of the Hottest New Podcasting Duos‘!
Commissions: mallinsonjourno@gmail.com
Column | News & Investigations | Features | Opinion & Analysis | Broadcast
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COLUMN
Follow Mathilda’s weekly column at Byline Times
LIVE PRESENTER
Presenter & producer at MEE Live | 17:00 BST, 12:00 ET | Tues & Thurs
NEWS & INVESTIGATIONS
Mathilda’s data investigation focused on race and gender selection rates in UK police recruitment made national and regional headlines (08/23); she can be seen presenting the findings on Channel 4 news (01/24). More on Media Storm:
Crude justice: the Nigerians taking Shell to court
Prospect Magazine
Exclusive: Bethlehem pastor condemns ‘hypocritical’ Pope Francis tributes
Middle East Eye
The cost of Chronic UTIs
i News
Phone surveillance for immigration officers
Independent
EXCLUSIVE | CPS lead for rape justice criticises media
Telegraph
Afghan sisters separated by failing resettlement scheme
Byline Times (digital front page special)
Migrants forced to wear GPS tags
Guardian
EXCLUSIVE | People smugglers speak
Guardian
EXCLUSIVE | Napier Barracks arrest
The Know
MULTIMEDIA | Covid outbreak in Calais ‘Jungle’
Evening Standard
MULTIMEDIA | Homeless pandemic
Evening Standard
EXPLAINER | Syrian War
Evening Standard
FEATURES
EXCLUSIVE: Juliet Stevenson on loss
Guardian
Jacqueline Wilson: ‘Children’s literature can create social change’
Evening Standard
Fear and Loathing in Nagorno Karabakh
People Who Do Things
Deborah Frances-White: Lockdown’s silver linings
Evening Standard
OPINION & ANALYSIS
What Suella Braverman’s refugee rhetoric tells us about the state of asylum
New Statesman
Why have only 50 Ukrainian refugees been accepted when so many British people want to help?
New Statesman
You can’t have balance without right of reply in the media
Press Gazette
Loving someone from another world: arguments with my war refugee boyfriend
AWP Magazine
Channel Migrants: Children are dying, you can help
The Know
Labour weren’t the only ones to U-turn on the policing bill
People Who Do Things
PRESENTING
Mathilda presents is a Guilty Feminist presenter and the co-host of Media Storm, for which she and partner Helena Wadia received the Silver ARIA for Best Speech Presenter in 2022, second to Women’s Hour’s Emma Barnett. She trained or has worked as a multimedia journalist at The Financial Times, Independent and Evening Standard (examples).
Media Storm is an investigative news podcast that puts people with lived experience at the centre of reporting.
53:56 – Interviewed by Femi Oluwole for Amnesty International broadcast
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