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  • Journalism

    My story on China’s circuit breaker mechanism

    March 30, 2016 / No Comments

    I recently got back from two months in Sri Lanka where I worked as a weird mix of intern and reporter and production assistant and researcher for both a TV channel called Newsfirst and a radio channel called Yes FM. They allowed me to take some of the work I had done for my portfolio when I left. So here is some of the work I did. This is the story on the circuit breaker mechanism that China trialled in early January. It was part of why the global economy in January was so shaky that oil prices got affected a lot more than they otherwise might have been. I…

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    Sri Lanka, December 2015 – February 2016

    December 5, 2015 / No Comments

    Destination: Colombo, Sri Lanka Duration: December 2015 – February 2016 Brief: I have crash landed in Colombo again, this time for two months and I will be taking on a bit of freelancing work as well as some work experience at a news organisation though as yet I am not entirely sure exactly what I will be doing so stay tuned. Follow the reportage/articles: Facebook / Twitter (I will update my website’s portfolio section when I can) Hire me to freelance for you: Email [email protected] / check out my website’s portfolio/Contently portfolio. Seriously, if you are a Sri Lankan organisation/publication or even an overseas one, make use of the fact…

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