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Photojournalist, filmmaker, producer for @CNN | Conflict, migration, and human rights | Dakar to Erbil | 🇮🇪 louis.leeson @cnn .com
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I feel sorry for Americans who will miss the extra layer of funny this has which is the venue Co-Op Live
BREAKING: Nicki Minaj has been arrested at an airport in the Netherlands hours before she was due to perform at Co-op Live in Manchester.
Full story:
📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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Imagine posing the same question with any other minority and see how long the anchor would last.
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Macron and Zelenskyy speak on the morning of February 24th.
Macron speaks to Zelensky the morning of the invasion. This is the beginning of Zelensky’s transformation from mild-mannered president to war chief.
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🚨One of those tweets🚨 I'm leaving the freelance life behind and starting a permanent role as video producer for
@CNN
. It's an exciting and super talented team I'm joining here in London, can't wait to get started 🔥
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This is why
@newlinesmag
are important: stories from the region told by those who live there and by those affected by the events. Brave work from
@FARED_ALHOR
who lost loved ones to the earthquake
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Gutted to learn the Adam Curtis bingo card will be redundant as Traumazone will have no voiceover.
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This list has been made to enrage me. Lebanon at 41? Where's Vietnam? Libya? Ethiopia? Nothing from West Africa? France in the top 5? Trash.
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This looks to be Tolga Akmen, an accredited photojournalist who works for the EPA, FT and many others, myself included. He is professional and polite. I'm sure the
@CCHQPress
will want to explain the circumstances surrounding his eviction as quickly as possible.
A photographer has just been dragged off the conference centre floor by security.
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@IncMonocle
Like Peckham during lockdown
The UK’s 10pm curfew has driven the people of Peckham to street cricket. These really are strange times.
Lovely cut shot, though. Somehow managed to get it up and over approximately 50 infielders on the offside.
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Finally finished
@sallyhayd
's definitive and damning book on the Mediterranean refugee route. Sally handles individuals' stories with empathy and care, and calmly lays at the door of European countries the suffering their policies cause. Deserving of all the praise it's received.
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Waiting to hear from Russia that all 90% of Mariupol's residential buildings contained Nazis or were blown up by Azov as a false flag.
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Thousands of people are feared dead in Libya after Storm Daniel brought so much rain to the northeast that two dams collapsed in one region, sweeping away entire neighborhoods.
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First solo shoot at CNN so here's the obligatory selfie 🤓
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If you haven't turned on
@jamesjonesfilm
on the 2011 London Riots then you should right now. Spectacularly shot, a broad range of interviewees, and fantastic historical context. Great filmmaking plain and simple.
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Anyone who has covered the Mediterranean refugee route will know how important
@sallyhayd
's reporting has been. Just received my pre-order copy of "My fourth time, we drowned", can't wait to read it.
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At the planned far right demo in Sheffield: one arrest already, counter protesters outnumber them
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@visitjamie
@BBC
Sad reminder for audiences and journalists that the story doesn't end when the reporting does RIP
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In this line of work, every 3 years you have to pay some ex military types to hood and zip tie you in a forest while they shout at you for several days Now is that time. If you know you know.
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Was a pleasure working with
@willripleyCNN
+
@selinawangtv
to bring together an engaging and
accessible explainer on decades of history and diplomacy between the US, China, and Taiwan.
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"I was never told not to take images of minors" is nowhere close to a justification or excuse for this. Quite incredible she's happy to go on the record defending her work in this way.
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This is why you need 1/1000+ shutter speed 👌🏻
10/10/2023: A protester invades the stage and pours glitter over Keir Starmer at the start of the Leader's Speech at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool.
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My talented colleague Sofia is Queen of stop motion. In this piece she and
@MaxFosterCNN
explain why some royals have titles and why some have them taken away.
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Your regular, if not constant, reminder that this illegal.
Immigration minister refuses to rule out pushing back boats carrying migrants mid channel into French waters.
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If you need any proof of how untenable an idea the Rwanda legislation is
@sallyhayd
's My Fourth Time We Drowned is exceptional.
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20 killed in Russian strikes on Ukrainian cities, children’s hospital attacked in Kyiv
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Reading
@annalekasmiller
's Love Across Borders today and this paragraph about Lebanon and Palestine leapt out
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Elephant and Castle shopping centre finally gone 😔
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After 12 years of freelancing, it's been an adjustment becoming staff. But it's the first Christmas I've not only been paid what I'm owed on time and gifted on too, which feels pretty good.
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Potentially a lot of great uses for this: security during a police stop, proof of liability in an insurance claim, or simply being able to take a photo of a nice view while driving that would otherwise be dangerous. But Citroen went with stalker behaviour.
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Let me ruin my Arab and Mexican friends' day: in Australia I just ordered Foul & Nachos from a restaurant called Beyka that has the tagline "Eat like an Egyptian". It comes with hummus and jalapeños.
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Seems as good a time as ever to start
@rothschildmd
's latest. Engaging, funny, and extremely, sadly, relevant.
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We're looking for a producer to join our team at the
@CNN
London bureau. You will write, research, edit, and have a strong track record of self shot work. The team is the best in the biz, come join
#journojobs
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My portrait of
@JahaENDFGM
and her daughter Khadija, taken in the days before The Gambia's vote on whether to overturn it's ban on FGM, in Brufut.
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Deliberate choices have been made in this video. Handheld, doc style filming. Shallow DoF and good lowlight performance looks like mid-high end consumer camera, probs Sony or Canon from the colours. Result is PR that wants to pass as documentary. How many tax £s did this cost?
BREAK: The Home Office has released a video of the first detentions of migrants bound for Rwanda
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An illustration of media interest > public interest perhaps
Absolutely love that the world's media crowded the Waterstones in Piccadilly - but only one woman called Caroline turned up early to buy Prince Harry's new book
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The people behind the camera are journalists as well. They often don't get the recognition they deserve. They write, research, and investigate the same as their on air colleagues. Well done to Tom for highlighting that fact.
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Packing for my first overseas shoot since before the pandemic.
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The Mnashee of Inisherin
The English word fairy is an ill fit for the Irish word Sí (Sídhe in older texts).
This is the root of banshee (Bean Sí)... and that's why, mo chairde, the plural of banshee is mnashee. Not banshees.
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It’s not.
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Haftar is getting the hang of this dictator-in-waiting thing, just look at all those titles. Reads like Adi Amin’s Wiki.
LNA’s Navy: Under the directives of His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, to advance the development of the armed forces, particularly the naval forces, the Russian cruiser Fariaj and the frigate Admiral Shabashnikov paid a working visit to the
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Am I gonna have to add El*n M*sk to my muted words? Honestly this platform is unusable right now.
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Go see the wonderful
@WeArePhosphoros
production "All The Beds I Slept In". A story told by refugee-actors about theirs and others journeys to the UK. It's on at
@RichMixLondon
tomorrow night.
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Appreciation post for our Ukrainian dream team, especially Sunny and Daria, who helped us across all our stories while we were in country.
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At least 55 people killed in Israeli military operation in central Gaza, according to hospital
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Obviously I've followed these events as I live in the UK and have been shocked by them. Working at
@cnni
often means having to decide which stories feel big in the UK but don't cross the bar to make it an international story. This did.
UK police arrested and detained three journalists covering a climate protest earlier this week, raising concerns that the country’s press freedoms are under threat
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Over lockdown I audio produced a podcast that's finally launching. With good friends
@QuinceGarcia
&
@LisaMoorish
we made The Emergence of Black Britain, a series of curated conversations with Black artists about how their work contributed to modern Britain.
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@JAMortram
David Hoffman's kiss from the Poll Tax riots probably did more than any other single photo to make 16 year old me studying art photography want to move into journalism.
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Took our video desk intern Ben out to shoot at the funeral today. Fair to say his first fortnight has been a baptism of fire in terms of the news cycle, but he’s risen to the challenge!
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Is there anything better than book tokens for birthday presents?
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Today I am interviewing 7 candidates for a work vacancy and tonight 4 people as a potential housemate. My brain is 🙃
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My mum retired and taught herself how to work with silver. Today she sent me this. Congrats Russia: you've managed to radicalise my mum.
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We're accepting applications for our next cohort of interns at CNN, starting in March next year. This isn't coffee fetching. It's a real, paid, early career job with plenty of mentoring and chances for progression.
#journojobs
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Blimey, been at CNN a whole year today. How'd that happen?
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It's been a long few weeks. But I'm sustained by the community of friends and colleagues, some of whom I've never met in person, who reach out that I am very lucky to be surrounded with. Check in with one another - it's always appreciated.
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@KyleJGlen
So there is a influencer who's whole schtick is travelling to economicly ravaged countries a living it up because of currency imbalance??
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Unmistakable TV segment from
@willripleyCNN
and team from Snake Island, Ukraine.
CNN is the first TV network to visit Ukraine's Snake Island. The tiny Black Sea island played an outsized role in Russia’s war on Ukraine, when a handful of its defenders defiantly told a Russian warship "Go F*** yourself."
@PIERREbairin
@CNNThisMorning
@donlemon
@kaitlancollins
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500 years from now, people will chase a ceremonially dressed horse daubed in red through the streets of London, with no idea how the annual tradition began. We're watching history.
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Last year we reported on a hotline for new mothers dealing with depression in India that was cancelled due to lack of funds. Health officials took note due to our reporting and have reinstated it.
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Our September internship programs are open at
@CNN
. This isn't coffee fetching. It's a real job, with pay, bylines, and the chance for progression. Sign up if your an early career journalist.
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For my first report for
@cnnsport
I found how Black communities in England & the US are underserved in swimming education & how that poses a risk to life and health. Shout out to
@PSungCuadrado
and
@sananoorhaq
for being there at every step on this story.
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Waiting for Jeremy Clarkson's A Level tweet today.
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You can defend the right to abortion without jumping straight to rape or incest. There are no "good' and "bad" reasons for choosing abortion. It is a right that has no value judgement attached.
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Great to see As Equals team
@Ladan_Anoushfar
and
@ElizaTalks
getting the airtime they deserve 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Something about the lockdowns meant I simply could hardly read books, something I love. Trying to address that. Since December I've read three, and now moving on to this, which I've been waiting for.
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Recruited into the CNN Thrashers softball team, from my first game earlier.
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There’s been a lot of speculation about nuclear weapons use in Russia’s war on Ukraine. I spoke with
@heatherwilly
from
@csisponi
about why that is and why the likelihood of their use is still low.
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A sunset after rain can produce some of the best golden hour light. Case in point today.
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Do people make the SoundCloud joke anymore? Anyway, follow me on Instagram for my actual photojournalism:
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