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Andréa Oldereide

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Covers:  LGBTQ+ issues, animals rights, feminism, boxing, investigations and more.
Doesn't Cover: Business, medicine, video games.

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I am an Investigative Reporting graduate and professional writer who currently works full time as an account executive for a PR agency. Above all, I am a journalist who writes for two platforms: Out News Global, an LGBTQ+ website, and TheThings.com, a popular culture website.

My first experience in journalism was as an intern in for a Swiss radio in Geneva. There I came up with various story ideas for live radio, such as LGBTQ+ rights in Switzerland, modern slavery in Geneva and drug abuse in t…

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Dad kicks £1,500-a-weekend cocaine binges with five minute ice baths

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By Andréa Oldereide
| MSN UK
A dad addicted to £1,500-a-weekend cocaine binges is sober for the first time in 18 years - and puts it down to a daily five minute ice bath. Lewis Milton, 36, started going to casinos to gamble and drink - and eventually do cocaine - aged 18, with friends he played football with. Dad-of-one Lewis, from Dagenham, Essex, quickly became hooked - gambling, drinking and sniffing away £3,000 he was given by his family, in a matter of days.
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EastEnders star Balvinder Sopal reveals heartwarming lesson from late mum

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By Andréa Oldereide
| MSN UK
EastEnders star Balvinder Sopal has shared the touching life lesson her late mum left her with, as she spoke to the Daily Star on the Rainbow Honours red carpet in London on Thursday (June 11). Balvinder, who plays Suki Panesar in the BBC soap, said the biggest thing her mum taught her was simple, but powerful. “The biggest lesson from mum?
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Two dead after holiday horror crash involving TUI tourist bus in Lanzarote

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By Andréa Oldereide, Natalia Penza
| MSN UK
Two people have died in a head-on collision involving a tourist bus on the holiday island of Lanzarote. Another two, including a six-year-old boy, were taken to hospital following the horror smash on the road linking the resort of Playa Blanca with the small town of Yaiza in the southwest of the island. Shocking images from the scene showed the mangled car wreck after the horrendous crash and the badly-damaged TUI bus with its front caved in and its windscreen smashed.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

A couple of years ago when I was a trainee journalist for a Swiss radio.

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Gale Weathers on Scream of course.

What does it mean to be a journalist?

It means that you are responsible for exposing the truth, no matter how uncomfortable and challenging it might be.

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