Tom Allan
As seen in:
Medium,
MSN Ireland,
MSN UK,
Financial Times,
The Guardian,
Yahoo Canada,
Yahoo News UK,
Yahoo Finance,
The Irish Times,
Yahoo Sports Canada
and
Covers:
Travel, environment, outdoor sports, features
Thatcher, writer.
Borderer 🏴 in Devon
Not on X very often
Interview
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
Email
Who do you wish followed you?
Editors, PR professionals.
Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?
I was the editor of my high school newspaper. It was a small school so me and one other student wrote just about all the copy.
What story are you most proud of writing or working on?
Writing about a proposed shipping route in Belarus, Ukraine and Poland that would use one of Europe's last unspoilt rivers, the Pripyat.
What's your favorite drink?
I am Scottish, so a wee dram is hard to beat.
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
Swimming or surfing in the sea in Devon where I live. Or travelling.
Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?
I've been travelling in the Balkans a lot this year and have started reading Balkan Insight regularly. Great reporting on the region.
What's the most common misperception about your beat?
Travel journalism is an endless parade of luxury perks.
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