The London File is an online publication by and for people from all around the world who know, live, love and hate London, England.
Divided into eight sections, plus a campaign, The London File aims to capture and report the realities and issues on the ground in London, as they happen.
We hope you enjoy browsing The London File as much as we enjoyed creating it.
The London File is a project of City University MA International Journalism students (2008-2009).
Position: Sport Reporter, Publishing Assistant
Group: Social Affairs and Sports
Nationality: India
Abhilasha loves her sport whether it is tennis, cricket or football, she enjoys writing about them. She is a huge fan of Roger Federer. Quit her last job - sport writer for an Indian daily - to watch Wimbledon. She has worked with Asian Age, ESPN online and Hindustan Times because of her obvious passion for sport. She is a graduate in Political Science from Delhi University.
Position: Science Deputy Editor
Group: Insider Life and Science & Health
Nationality: United States of America
is a freelance journalist specialising in Latin American political and social issues. Her work has been published in the Independent, the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, the Fife Herald, and the East Fife Mail, among other publications. She holds an MA in International Relations from the University of St Andrews, and a pending MA in International Journalism at City University. She will be going to Venezuela in July to report on the role of women in Chavez's bolivarian revolution.
Position: World Affairs Editor
Group: World Affairs and Arts
Nationality: United States of America
Anna is an American journalist and Postgradute student at City University London in the MA International Journalism programme. She obtained her BA degree in Broadcast Journalism with a Minor in Business Administration. After graduating, she worked at E! Entertainment for two years in various production shows such as Love Ride, 12 Sexiest Hollywood Jobs and E! News Now. She is from Orange County, California but moved to London to obtain the international journalistic experience. She recently completed work experience with BBC Horizon. She enjoys writing about Business, Politics, Travel and the Environment. She hopes to work for The Economist and National Geographic.
Position: Editor-in-chief
Group: Social Affairs and Sports
Nationality: United Kingdom
is a freelance journalist currently based in London. She recently won the John Ivinson Memorial Prize for Freedom of Expression for an article about press freedom in Gaza during the January war. Annabel is currently writing an article for Wired (UK) about Wikileaks, and is going to South America in August to research and write an article about the Guarani Aquifer and the inidigenous populations that live in the region. Annabel is completing an MA in International Journalism at City University (June 2009) and has a BA in English and Theatre Studies from University of Leeds.
Position: EU Elections Editor
Group: EU Elections Coverage and Money
Nationality: Iran
Is an Iranian journalist living in London since September 2005. He holds a BA(Hons) degree in New Media Journalism with Advertising from Thames Valley University. Specialising in Crime and Punishment, he holds a pending MA in International Journalism from City University London. He has written for P&B and GT magazines.
Position: Reporter, Subeditor
Group: Insider Life and Science & Health
Nationality: United States of America
Britni is an American journalist and Postgraduate student at City University London in the MA International Journalism programme. She obtained her BA degree in Journalism with a minor in History at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. She has worked for The Financial Times and is currently an intern at The Frontline Club. She has been published in Pensions Week magazine as well as the Pensions News website for the FT. She enjoys writing about Politics, Entertainment, Lifestyle, and Culture.
Position: Photo editor / EU and Money reporter
Group: EU Elections Coverage and Money
Nationality: Luxembourg
Claire is a freelance journalist and photogrpaher from Luxembourg currently residing in London. She has been reporting for Land, Woxx and Seven Magazine. Claire holds a BA in Information and Communication from ULB in Brussels and is passionate about photojournalism, social affairs and arts.
Position: Deputy Editor
Group: Insider Life and Science & Health
Nationality: Argentina/Italy
is an Argentinean born journalist . He started his journalism carrer in Guatemala in 2006-7, covering crime and the presidential elections for the biggest selling local newspaper, Nuestro Diario. He has also worked for the spanish community radio Red Con Voz and has written for soitu.es and latinnews.com. He is specialized in international affairs and has a BSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics.
Position: Multimedia Deputy Editor
Group: World Affairs and Arts
Nationality: United Kingdom/United States of America
is a freelance British American journalist based in London. After graduating from King's College London with a BA in War Studies. He worked for the Malay Mail, Malaysia's fastest growing national paper. He specializes in conflict correspondency and sports. He plans to return to Malaysia to work for the Malay Mail in September.
Position: Reporter, Assistant Photo Editor
Group: EU Elections Coverage and Money
Nationality: Seychelles
Having grown up in the Seychelles, she worked with the Seychelles Nation Newspaper as a journalist and the local FM station, Paradise FM, as a radio jockey . She then moved to Mumbai, India to do a Bachelors Degree in Mass Media, with a specialism in Journalism. She is currently finishing an MA in International Journalism at City University in London, with a specialism in Crime & Punishment.
Position: Reporter, Subeditor
Group: EU Elections Coverage and Money
Nationality: Singapore
Jaswinder is a freelance writer from Singapore.She's currently based in London and pursuing an MA in International Journalism at City University.She writes on travel and lifestyle for inflight magazines and updated the Insight and Berlitz City Guides to Singapore.
Position: Co-Editor, Sports
Group: Social Affairs and Sports
Nationality: United Kingdom
is a British freelance journalist specialising in sport and travel. He is currently based in London. After graduating from Portsmouth University with a BA in Human Geography; he studied a Master's in International Journalism at City University, London. Jonny has written for the Pink Paper and has also had work published in The Independent and City Online Magazine. He will be reporting live from the Under-21 European football championship in Sweden in June 2009.
Position: Section editor, Money & Local Economy
Group: EU Elections Coverage and Money
Nationality: Spain
Jose M. Calatayud (aka Chemi) is kind of a Spanish journalist currently based in London, although he'll be moving soon to Nairobi. He's worked at the daily newspaper El Mundo in Spain and at the BBC World Service in London. He's also worked at non-journalistic jobs, like running into the sea to save people from evil jellyfishes - but that's another story. He holds bachelors degrees in Philosophy and Journalism from the University of Valencia in Spain and the University Paris 8 in France, and right now he is finishing this MA in International Journalism at City University London. Impressive as all that may sound, the best thing about him is that he is a really nice guy, as proved by the fact that all his (girl)friends' mums just love him.
Position: Social Affairs Editor
Group: Social Affairs and Sports
Nationality: Greece
is a Greek journalist living in London and specialising in international affairs. She holds a BA in International and European Studies from the University of Piraeus, Greece and an MPhil in International Relations from the University of Cambridge, UK. Currently she is attending the MA in International Journalism programme at City University London.
Position: Reporter, Subeditor
Group: Social Affairs and Sports
Nationality: Greece
Karolina is a Greek journalist in London via Istanbul with a special interest in all things Turkish. She is completing a MA in international journalism at City University and will spend the summer at The Associated Press in London. Her favourite ice-cream flavour is pistachio.
Position: Arts and World Affairs Reporter
Group: World Affairs and Arts
Nationality: United States of America
Kedrick is an American journalist who has written for alternative and small press for the last 10 years. He holds a BA in Creative Writing and Literature from Vermont College. He is currently studying for his MA in International Journalism at City University London.
Position: Deputy Photo Editor
Group: Social Affairs and Sports
Nationality: Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles
Is a free-lance journalist who blogs for The Huffington post. She has also worked for Submarinechannel.com - an arts e-zine - and Forbes.com. She graduated with a BA in Media and Culture from the Univeristy of Amsterdam.
Position: Deputy section editor, Money
Group: EU Elections Coverage and Money
Nationality: Austria/Sweden
Lisa is an Austro-Swedish journalist who looks back on a string of badly paid but worthwile internships and freelance assignments. Her work has been published by various international magazines, including Monocle, Wanderlust and Sunday Times Travel. Lisa specialises in covering travel, culture, social affairs and, most recently, the embattled economy. In search of steady employment and sunshine, she will relocate to Abu Dhabi (UAE) shortly.
Position: Publishing Assistant, Science and Health reporter
Group: Insider Life and Science & Health
Nationality: Saudi Arabia
Is a Saudi Arabian journalist who has been working for Arab News newspaper, based in Saudi Arabia, since November 2004 until present. She writes on social issues, such as domestic violence, health, education in addition to covering local and international events, such as the 15th Asian Games in Qatar, 2006. She holds a postgraduate diploma in journalism from London School of Journalism and a bachelor degree in English Literature and Linguistics. She has recently interned at The Independent.
Position: Lecturer
Group: Staff
Nationality: United Kingdom
Marcus is a visiting lecturer in online journalism at City University. The rest of the time Marcus runs new media consultancy VSC Creative and pathologically attempts pointlessly difficult and time-consuming tasks for no reason. Marcus helped the print students on the the MA in International Journalism to produce The London File, and has consequently begun, aged 25 and three quarters, to consider permanent retirement to a small, quiet nursing home in Surrey.
Position: Science Editor
Group: Insider Life and Science & Health
Nationality: Trinidad and Tobago
is a freelance journalist from Trinidad now based in London specialising in development and social issues. She has worked for the in-flight magazine Caribbean Beat, the daily Trinidadian newspaper Newsday and London anti-poverty charity War on Want as a media volunteer. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in English: Professional Writing from Barry University in Miami and is currently completing a Masters Degree in International Journalism from City University London.
Position: World Affairs Editor
Group: World Affairs and Arts
Nationality: The Netherlands
Is a Dutch journalist specialising in conflict and international relations. She has collaborated with the Institute for War and Peace Reporting on The Special Tribunal for Lebanon. She hold a Bachelor's degree in Political Science and International Relations from the University College Utrecht and an MA International Relations from King's College London.
Position: Managing Editor
Group: World Affairs and Arts
Nationality: France
Is a French journalist specialising in conflict reporting. She has collaborated with the Institute for War and Peace Reporting on human rights issues in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic. She also worked at ABCnews in New York and the daily newspaper Liberation. She will be reporting from Sri Lanka on the conflict aftermath in July. Her degree is in Politics and East European Studies from the University College London.
Position: Sport Editor
Group: Social Affairs and Sports
Nationality: Denmark/Norway
Is a Danish/Norwegian journalist specialising in politics and Italian football. He hold a Masters degree in Political Science from studies at universities in Oslo, Aarhus and Copenhagen
Position: Reporter
Group: EU Elections Coverage and Money
Nationality: Bulgaria
Nelly is a Bulgarian-Canadian freelance journalist and blogger, currently residing in London where she is completing an MA in International Journalism at City University with emphasis on EU affairs and international finance. During her studies Nelly did internships at Sky News, Monocle and The Independent.
Position: Reporter, sub-editor
Group: Social Affairs and Sports
Nationality: United States of America
Mr Thompson is a 'freelance' journalist living in London who has 'worked' in the past on local news, political websites and digital features at CNN. Following all of that preposterous success, and given the current economic climate, he is now considering early retirement.
Position: Chief Sub Editor
Group: Social Affairs and Sports
Nationality: India
Priyal is an Indian journalist from Mumbai (Bombay for the search engines). She graduated with a BA in Economics which does not do much for her current specialism of Entertainment reporting. She is an avid new media lover inviting the wrath of her classmates by spamming her classmate's twitter screens and using Facebook for asking assignment deadlines. Other than that, she has interned with the Times of India group for their compact Mumbai Mirror for two years and the Deccan Chronicle for one month and hopes to break into the big bad world of British journalism
Position: Webmaster, reporter
Group: World Affairs and Arts
Nationality: Saudi Arabia
Is a Saudi Arabian freelance journalist who has been with the Arab News newspaper since March 2005 until present covering mainly local sports, social issues and events from her home town Jeddah and now London. She covered the 15th Asian Games in Qatar, 11th Arab Games in Egypt and participated twice at the 4th and 5th Arab Sports Media women meetings in Syria in 2008 and in Qatar in 2009. Her bachelor degree was in English literature and linguistics and she followed it with a diploma in Journalism from the London School of Journalism in 2006. One of her goals was to enter the stadium and cover a match in her city, and she did that and covered the waterpolo and volleyball finals both in one day in 2008.
Position: Editor, Insider Life
Group: Insider Life and Science & Health
Nationality: United States of America
After receiving her Bachelor's Degree in Theatre from the University of California, San Diego, Romany moved to New York City in 2005 to pursue her career as an actress and playwright. Having completed an initial Viticulture and Enology course from University of California, Davis in 2007, she has since been a Contributing Editor for Classicwines.com with her weekly column 'Wine & the City.' She won the NYC SLAM award for her play 'Out of the Black' which was produced in Tribeca, NYC July 2008. She is now based in London completing her MA in International Journalism from City University London, specialising in Entertainment. In five years she anticipates being a staff writer for the New Yorker and married to Peter Sarsgaard.
Position: Sub-editor
Group: Insider Life and Science & Health
Nationality: Pakistan
Saleha is a Pakistani journalist who completed her BA in History from the London School of Economics last year and is now pursuing her postgraduate degree from City University, specialising in Development. She has worked in Karachi at Aaj Tv, Herald and The Review and interned in London at The Mail On Sunday.
Position: Arts Reporter
Group: World Affairs and Arts
Nationality: Pakistan
Seher is a freelance journalist based in London. After graduating from Tufts University with a BA in International Relations, she joined Citigroup (UK) in the Corporate Communications dept. She made the move to journalism soon after and was features editor for the Herald, Pakistan's largest current-affairs monthly magazine. She freelances for literary review supplements, travel magazine East/West (Hong Kong), The South Asian (India) and Popmatters.com
Position: Insider Life Reporter, Publishing Assistant
Group: Insider Life and Science & Health
Nationality: Italy
After 5 years spent following the "club and drinnk as much as you can "motto, this Italian guy decided to get a (professional )Life. Holding a BA in Arts from "La Sapienza University",an Erasmus scholarship in Portugal (basically nothing) and due to the stimulating job opportunities met in Rome -his home town- this skinny guy is now in London to attend an International Journalism MA at City University. After this experience is likely to find his way in Paris as a bartender.