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Ewen MacAskill (born 1951) is a Scottish journalist. He worked for 22 years on The Guardian , ending his career in September 2018 as the newspaper's defence and intelligence correspondent. MacAskill was involved in preparing the publication disclosures from Edward Snowden of the activities of the American National Security Agency (NSA).
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The catalyst was a school trip to the Scottish Daily Express, based in Glasgow. The deputy chief sub-editor showing us around was obviously well-liked and there was a lot of banter between him and other journalists and with the printers. That was it for me. I never wanted to be anything else. That deputy chief sub eventually ended up at the Guardia...
I was on the Glasgow Herald and the Scotsman and had a couple of stints working overseas. I was interviewed by then editor Alan Rusbridger in 1996. The interview went badly - neither of us is particularly loquacious and there were a lot of awkward silences - but he gave me the job anyway.
I was taken on as chief political correspondent. I had been in Northern Ireland for a few days for the Scotsman covering an outbreak of trouble. I flew back to London for a lunch at the Guardian office for the then Labour leader Tony Blair. I immediately liked the general lack of deference shown towards Blair. That set the tone for the next 22 year...
Yes. Kath Viner joined a few months after me and rose to become editor-in-chief. I stayed as a reporter but I think I got the better deal. Reporters have more fun.
The Guardian office in parliament was a happy one. Then political editor Mike White and sketch-writer Simon Hoggart bickered like brothers but were funny with it. Around six o’clock, one of us would bring in a tray of drinks and we would sit drinking beer or wine as we wrote. I doubt if the political team still does that but who knows? I was involv...
After Westminster, I was on the foreign team for 14 years, travelling all over the world. I covered various conflicts but the one that had the most impact was Israel-Palestine. I have not been back in over a decade but it is still vivid. I interviewed Yasser Arafat, the leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, Israeli soldiers, settlers and the victims ...
I arrived in the US early in 2007 and one of the first things I did was to go to Iowa to see Hillary Clinton speak. She was favourite to secure the Democratic nomination for the White House race but I was disappointed: she was all platitudes and cliches. When I saw Obama speak for the first time, I thought he could win, even though he was 30 points...
I have had a varied beat. I did defence. And spies. I was part of the team which covered the Scottish independence referendum. It was great to see so many people engaged in and passionate about politics. I found the same engagement and passion when covering Corbyn’s leadership campaign.
Then US editor Janine Gibson showed courage in publishing the first of the stories. On a conference call, they tried to flatter her with an invitation to the White House. They tried to intimidate her. She told them she was going ahead with publication.
It was nice to be portrayed by Tom Wilkinson. But it never felt like me. He refers to Ed as ”‘laddie”. I have never called anyone “laddie” in my life.
Apr 14, 2003 · Sun 13 Apr 2003 20.47 EDT. T here are 800 miles separating them, innocent victims of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She is a Syrian living in Kuwait City. Her husband is in Ramallah, in the...
Dec 14, 2016 · Ewen MacAskill visited Villa Grimaldi to speak with one of the victims to try to reconstruct the life of the late Roberto Kozak. A junior diplomat from Argentina, Kozak is relatively unknown in Chile and around the world and yet he helped save an estimated 30,000 prisoners and their families. He was Latin America's Schindler.
Ewen MacAskill is a Pulitzer Prize-winning former defence and intelligence correspondent for The Guardian who acts as a mentor for Thomson Foundation trainees.
Biography. As well as being part of the Pulitzer-winning team, Ewen MacAskill won the Polk, Scripps Howard and Investigative Reporters and Editors awards for the Snowden coverage. He has also previously won awards in Britain and was the Larry Sterne fellow at the Washington Post in 1986. Ewen has been on the Guardian since 1996 and has been the ...
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