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Cameron Baillie

(He/Him)
Bolivia, Ecuador, United Kingdom
As seen in: The BMJ, Flipboard, LSE Connect, Mondoweiss, Prospect Magazine, New Internationalist, Popular Resistance, The Canary, Red Pepper (UK), Novara Media and
Covers:  Media bias and double-standards; neo-imperialism; economic injustices; political hypocrisy; ecological collapse and its backers; migrant justice; women's and minority rights; democratic deficits; Gaza
Doesn't Cover: Sports, celebrities, and garbage-fuelled media, apart from criticism; not keen on tepid 'lifestyle' pieces but interested in cultural critiques; actively against pro-corporate, elite-led news agendas
@TheCanaryUK 🏆 @SPAJournalism @TheOrwellPrize—Editor-Chief @NewSocioPersp—Edit @Studentifada—Words: @NewInt, BMJ, @Mondoweiss, @Prospect_UK, Novara, Red Pepper

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Cameron Baillie’s Biography

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Interested in radical ideas and projects to empower the dispossessed, and to dispossess those who concentrate the people's power for themselves. In our radically unequal and unjust age, only truly radical projects for equality and justice can triumph. Stick around for more, and connect to work together. Forever on the side of the down-trodden, solidarity always!

Early career journalist, writer, and essayist trying to make sense of a senseless world. Editor-in-Chief at New Sociological Perspecti…

Cameron Baillie’s Journalist Portfolio

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Murdoch's Times doubles down on anti-Green smear campaign

Murdoch's Times doubles down on anti-Green smear campaign

Britain's mainstream press are doubling down on a smear campaign against the Green Party in the run up to May…

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Apple Maps not featuring all of Lebanon is a 'colonial' act

Apple Maps not featuring all of Lebanon is a 'colonial' act

Apple Maps faces criticism over its satellite software displaying vast blank areas across Lebanon and missing…

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Second Global Sumud Flotilla sets sail from Barcelona to Gaza

Second Global Sumud Flotilla sets sail from Barcelona to Gaza

The historic second Global Sumud Flotilla has departed from Barcelona. It aims to break Israel's siege on Gaz…

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Revealed: The famous school at the centre of a book-banning scandal

Revealed: The famous school at the centre of a book-banning scandal

The Salford school tells us they 'don't recognise' the librarian's version of events. Additional reportin…

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Matt Goodwin Published a Campaign Leaflet Appealing to Voters' 'Christian Heritage'. How's That f...

Matt Goodwin Published a Campaign Leaflet Appealing to Voters' 'Christian Heritage'. How's That f...

Failed Reform UK candidate Matthew Goodwin complained of 'blatant sectarianism' in the Green campaign in Gort…

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Hannah Spencer exclusive: on Misogyny

Hannah Spencer exclusive: on Misogyny

Our reporter in Gorton and Denton @cjmbaillie spoke to @hannahtheplumbermcr about the misogyny and abuse that…

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Articles

The next Young Greens’ co-chairs will be anti-Zionist

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By Cameron Baillie
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The candidates bidding to become co-chairpersons of the Green Party’s youth wing, Young Greens, have unanimously affirmed that ‘Zionism is racism‘, the Canary can reveal, signalling an anti-Zionist stance for the national party. Each candidate — Cyn Muthoni, Jo Dowbor, Isaac Short, Haydn Osborne-Brookes and Elliot Retzepis — made their position clear at the hustings for co-chair selection at this year’s youth conference.
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Would Ann Widdecombe have cared about someone showing they hate her?

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By Cameron Baillie
| The Canary Verified
An Aberdeen University staff member has been charged with an offence after posting insensitive comments online about Ann Widdecombe‘s death. Web developer Heather Herbert called the 78-year-old politician’s death “good news” on Bluesky. She also posted that she hoped Widdecombe had died a “painful death” before it emerged her death was being treated as murder. The late former Tory MP and Reform UK spokesperson was found dead in her home on 9 July.
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WATCH: Fox News host jokes about US military rape complex in Asia

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By Cameron Baillie
| The Canary Verified
Fox News journalist Jesse Watters has gone viral after joking about US military “wild animals” overdosing on testosterone and attacking women. Smiling wildly, Watters joked on live TV: The guys that don’t need it [testosterone] are gonna take it — to triple boost. And then they’re gonna get out there, and women on base — you guys better be careful. Uh-huh! Port calls — women, eh-he, in Asia — you better be careful.
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Interview

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What was your first job as a journalist?

Covering a tedious school senior management self-promotional meet-and-greet with students for The Beaver at LSE

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Sadly not for anything longer than a few words

How is social media changing news?

Journalists are being exposed for their biases and also chase what's viral, ceding power to oligarchs, while fact-checking takes up more time

Awards

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Best Comment Piece

2024 - Opinion Journalism

Awarded to Cameron Baillie by the Student Publication Association (SPA) at their National Awards ceremony in Bristol in 2024. The prize was won in the SPA's most submitted-to award category, from out of more than 130 submissions to the SPA from all student publications across Britain and Ireland. The award was given for 'Apology to my Mum; or, Why I'll be Arrested'

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'Rising Star' (Best Newcomer)

2024 - Journalistic Contribution

Cameron Baillie was *shortlisted* for this award by the Student Publication Association (SPA) for their National Awards ceremony in Bristol in 2024. Cameron was among the top ten debut student journalists (in their first year of being published) from across Britain and Ireland to be considered for the prize for outstanding commitment and contribution to a student paper.

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Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness

2024 - Reportage (Essay)

Cameron was *long-listed* for the Orwell Foundation's Prize for Reporting Homelessness for a memoriam essay he wrote on the topic. The piece was published in the Orwell Foundation's 2024 Homelessness Anthology.

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