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Paris-based writer on European allsorts at the Guardian; views my own, RTs not endorsements, etc.

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Jon Henley’s Biography

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I'm an award-winning senior feature writer and former foreign correspondent with The Guardian newspaper in London, where my work mainly focuses on longform international reportage but also includes analysis, explainers and interviews.

You can see my Guardian profile and my collected articles by clicking here.

I have reported for the Guardian from more than 30 countries and was the paper's chief Paris correspondent for nearly 10 years. My reporting has been shortlisted for Feature Writer of the …

Jon Henley’s Journalist Portfolio

Young, qualified and jobless: plight of Europe's best-educated generation

Young, qualified and jobless: plight of Europe's best-educated generation

"All your life," says Argyro Paraskeva, "you've been told you're a golden prince. The future awaits: it's bri…

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Why is the European court of human rights hated by the UK right?

Why is the European court of human rights hated by the UK right?

Amiran Natsvlishvili is not complaining about the kidnapping. Nor about the brutal beatings, or the huge rans…

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Benefits Street: the hard-working history that Channel 4 left out

Benefits Street: the hard-working history that Channel 4 left out

One hundred years before Deirdre Kelly welcomed Channel 4's cameras into her living room and found unexpected…

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Rjukan sun: the Norwegian town that does it with mirrors

Rjukan sun: the Norwegian town that does it with mirrors

On the market square in Rjukan stands a statue of the town's founder, a noted Norwegian engineer and industri…

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Anders Behring Breivik trial: the father's story

Anders Behring Breivik trial: the father's story

It is an unassuming bungalow in a nondescript village on the edge of a small town in southern France. An unma…

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Articles

Fire destroys Marché des Enfants Rouges, ‘coolest market in Paris’

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By Jon Henley Verified
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Fire has ravaged Paris’s oldest surviving covered food market, a popular street food venue dating back to the 17th century in the Marais district of the French capital that drew thousands of locals and tourists daily. Ariel Weil, the central Paris mayor, ​said the Marché des Enfants ‌Rouges had been “totally destroyed” in the blaze, which broke out soon after 3am. “The worst was avoided: the fire did not spread to the surrounding buildings,” he said. “But there is a lot of emotion.
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France recorded more than 5,700 excess deaths during June heatwave

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By Jon Henley Verified, Europe correpondent
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France recorded more than 5,700 excess deaths during its June heatwave, authorities have said, as swathes of southern Europe continue to endure another record-breaking period of extreme temperatures. The French national health agency said on Wednesday that it had recorded 5,764 excess deaths ⁠between ​17 June and 2 July, an excess mortality rate of 36%.
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Marine Le Pen will run for election in 2027. Will she have to wear an electronic tag?

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By Jon Henley Verified
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So she's running. Written off by many after her conviction last year for embezzling public funds, Marine Le Pen, France's far-right figurehead, insisted yesterday there was “no scenario in which I will not be a candidate” for the French presidency in next year's elections. Hours earlier, a Paris appeals court had confirmed she was guilty of overseeing a scheme that misused more than €4m of EU money.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

On the English-language desk of a Dutch financial newspaper. Then AP in Amsterdam.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes. In my first job ...

How is social media changing news?

Completely, in the gathering and the telling and in our relationship with our readers. Journalists are no longer the sole dispensers of truth