Nick Haslam last modified: August 7, 2008

Membership profile

Name: Nick Haslam
Professional title Journalist
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Telephone (day) 01752 845661
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E-mail nick.haslam@blueyonder.co.uk
Website 1 www.nickhaslam.co.uk
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Biography Journalist and producer Nick has a degree in French and Arabic, and worked as a lecturer in various universities of the Middle East and West Africa before becoming a freelance stringer in Côte d’Ivoire. He then worked in-house at the BBC World Service and the FT, before spending ten years working as a freelance correspondent, TV producer and travel writer based in Sydney, Calcutta, Budapest and Santa Domingo. He now lives in Cornwall, and writes for most of the British press, and broadcasts on BBC Radio 4 and the World Service. He speaks fluent French, Spanish and a very rusty Arabic.
Main professional activities Travel Writing; Radio reporting and producing; Photography ( (www.alamy.com/stock-photography-search-results.asp?qt=nick+haslam),
Memberships British Guild of Travel Writers; Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild;
Awards
Most recent publications Credits in Country Life, Geographical, Skyward , Telegraph Special supplements, Compass magazine, BBC From Our Own Correspondent, BBC World Service (Outlook), Camping, Go Active, Daily Express, The Times Magazine; BBC Radio 4 Documentary Spy School
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Areas of particular interest or expertise Middle East history and politics; travel writing (Walking, backpacking,horse riding, canoeing, general travel writing off-the- beaten track and luxury destinations) gardens, and all things Cornish except pasties.
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