colinfreemansite
| Forum role | Member since | Last activity | Topics created | Replies created |
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| Member | Apr 28, 2016 (10 years) |
5 years | 2 | 4 |
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- Member
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Apr 28, 2016 (10 years)
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- 5 years
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- 4
Bio
Colin Freeman is a British freelance journalist. Raised in Edinburgh, he started his career on the Grimsby Evening Telegraph in the mid-90s, then moved to the London Evening Standard. After a disastrous spell as local government correspondent, he went to post-Saddam Iraq, where he picked up work for The Sunday Telegraph, which was later made him chief foreign correspondent. He spent the next 12 years covering stories across Africa, Asia and the Middle East. He was once shot in the backside in Iraq - much to the amusement of friends - and in Somalia, he was kidnapped by pirates for six weeks.
Since leaving The Telegraph in 2016, he has returned to freelancing. He now contributes to The Telegraph magazine, The Spectator, The Sunday Times, Foreign Policy, the BBC's From Our Own Correspondent, and pretty much anywhere else that will have him.