Mathilda Mallinson is a presenter and journalist specialising in immigration, social affairs and human rights. She has reported for The Guardian, Telegraph, Independent, New Statesman, Evening Standard, FT and more. She is co-creator and award-winning host of Media Storm (Best Current Affairs Podcast, British Podcast Awards 2022). Mathilda has won a Silver ARIA for Best Presenter, been shortlisted for Interviewer of The Year at the British Journalism Awards, and is one of PodPod’s Faces To Watch!
Available for commission: mallinsonjourno@gmail.com
News & Investigations | Features | Opinion & Analysis | Broadcast
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NEWS & INVESTIGATIONS
Recent investigations have focused on UK police recruitment and racial discrimination, with Mathilda’s latest research featuring exclusively on Channel 4 news (01/24) – Mathilda can be seen presenting data in the package. Her earlier investigative work on the topic made national and regional headlines (08/23), and is now being utilised by policing authorities to inform positive internal action.
Crude justice: the Nigerians taking Shell to court
Prospect Magazine
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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