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Shanna Jones

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  • Data Journalist, Office for National Statistics, Freelance
United Kingdom, Wales
As seen in: Medium, The Independent (UK), USA Today, Metro (UK), The Economist, Unearthed: Greenpeace, VICE, VICE UK, Lonely Planet, AllAfrica and
Covers:  extractives, cross-border stories, corruption, human rights, violence against women.
Data Journalist. Former freelance reporter in the UK, Europe and West Africa. #OSINT fan. Views my own.

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Shanna Jones is a freelance international journalist with a passion for data reporting combined with on-the-ground interviews. She has reported for British and US media from sex worker safe houses in Sierra Leone, the Red Light District in Amsterdam, Calais refugee camp and the depths of the British Land Registry. She has investigated the exploitation of local sex workers by NGO staff, depicted grassroots refugee solidarity movements and participated in data-led investigations into offshore mon…

Shanna Jones’s Journalist Portfolio

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The lasting impact of violence against women and girls

The lasting impact of violence against women and girls

Warning: This article contains themes that some may find distressing "Violence against women and girls" inclu…

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COVID-19 restrictions cut household emissions

COVID-19 restrictions cut household emissions

With more people staying at home last year, household greenhouse gas emissions dropped by 10%. Could the shif…

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BP's big new gas plans in West Africa pose climate and biodiversity threats

BP's big new gas plans in West Africa pose climate and biodiversity threats

Coral on the cold-water reef. Photo: TL, Sven Loven Centre, Uni Gothenburg A new investigation by Unearthed a…

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BP is planning to drill for fossil gas on edge of world's largest cold-water coral reef

BP is planning to drill for fossil gas on edge of world's largest cold-water coral reef

BP is planning to drill for fossil gas on the edge of the world's largest cold-water coral reef - raising the…

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How has lockdown changed our relationship with nature?

How has lockdown changed our relationship with nature?

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has forced people to interact with familiar surroundings in new ways. Whi…

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EXCLUSIVE: Environment Agency incident attendance drops by 63%

EXCLUSIVE: Environment Agency incident attendance drops by 63%

The total number of reported environmental incidents attended by the Environment Agency has declined by more …

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Articles

Afrique de l'Ouest: Ce qui a changé depuis #AidToo ? Pas grand-chose, selon les travailleuses du sexe en Sierra Leone

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By Shanna Jones , Ngozi Cole 
| AllAfrica.com Français
FREETOWN — « Il faut que cela paie bien, ailleurs, pour que les filles arrêtent les rapports sexuels rémunérés. Si elles ne peuvent pas gagner autant, elles y reviendront toujours.
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Rien n'a changé pour les travailleuses du sexe en Sierra Leone malgré les interdictions qui touchent les humanitaires

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By Shanna Jones , Ngozi Cole 
| The New Humanitarian
This article is also available in Anglais Republish this article FREETOWN Quand des employés d'Oxfam en Haïti ont été surpris en train de payer des rescapées du tremblement de terre pour avoir des rapports sexuels, beaucoup d'organisations humanitaires ont décidé de revoir leurs politiques de sauvegarde et ont tenté de sévir contre la pratique des rapports sexuels rémunérés, en prenant acte du déséquilibre du rapport de force qui existe entre leurs employés et les communautés qu'ils servent.
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Sierra Leone: What's Changed Since #IAidToo? Not Much, Say Sex Workers in Sierra Leone

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By Ngozi Cole , Shanna Jones 
| AllAfrica
Freetown — 'It has to pay for the girls to leave sex work. If they cannot earn as much, then they will always go back.' When Oxfam staff in Haiti were caught paying earthquake survivors for sex, many aid organisations moved to overhaul their safeguarding policies and tried to clamp down on the practice of transactional sex, noting the power disparities between staff and the people they serve.
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Interview

Why did you become a journalist?

I became a journalist because I was inspired by the late Shauna Crockett-Burrows, founder of Positive News who I met aged 14 when she used to visit my mum's shop.

Awards

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Royal Television Society Student Award

2016 - Student videojournalism

Nomination for South West category

Bristol's most talented young online content creators

2014 - Youth

The Watershed and Latimer Group awarded a group of young people 'best online content creation in Bristol' awards. The prize was a week's paid workshops helping to consult on new youth website, Rife.

Positive News Young Writers

2008 - Young writers

The prize was a week's writing retreat at the Arvon centre in Shropshire with masterclasses from Guardian journalists.

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