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Tom Levitt

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London, United Kingdom
As seen in: The Guardian, CNN, MSN, MSN Ireland, MSN UK, Yahoo Life, HuffPost, Yahoo Canada, Yahoo News, Yahoo News Malaysia, Yahoo News UK and
Covers:  agribusiness, environment, consumer affairs, farming, food, china
Journalist/Commissioning Editor, Guardian

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Tom Levitt’s Biography

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Multimedia journalist and writer. Previously deputy editor at the Ecologist and now managing editor at chinadialogue. I’ve also worked as editor of MSN Environment, which I helped set up.

I specialise in food, farming and environmental science and have reported widely within Europe and internationally from Africa, Asia and Central America. My journalism has featured in CNN, Financial Times, Guardian, Grist, Link TV and MSN.

Website: www.tomtree.co.uk

Tom Levitt’s Journalist Portfolio

How Fairtrade bananas are failing migrant workers

How Fairtrade bananas are failing migrant workers

The Dominican Republic's Fairtrade boom hasn't helped slum-dwelling Haitian migrant workers

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Lab-grown meat gives food for thought - CNN.com

Lab-grown meat gives food for thought - CNN.com

A burger grown in a laboratory. Sounds like science-fiction? Well up until very recently it probably was but …

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Ghosts of farming: Britain's forgotten sheep farmers poisoned by pesticides

Ghosts of farming: Britain's forgotten sheep farmers poisoned by pesticides

Government orders to use dangerous organophosphate chemicals left hundreds of sheep farmers with debilitating…

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‘I hadn’t seen people smiling until I arrived in the UK’: one man’s harrowing journey from Yemen to safety

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By Tom Levitt Verified
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When Amal Sahel* was 15, he and his friends found a long length of metal lying abandoned in the street. The boys thought immediately of its best use: a sword. Over the past year, they had grown used to seeing strange debris – what Sahel calls "interesting pieces of metal" – in their neighbourhood. The debris had been left behind by repeated air raids on Sahel's home city in Yemen: a previously quiet location in a country gradually collapsing into civil war.
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‘A hunting ground for foreign regimes’: why violent attacks on dissidents are on the rise in Britain

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By Tom Levitt Verified, Maryam Foumani
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As Pouria Zeraati was crossing the street between his Wimbledon home and his car in south London in March 2024, he was confronted by two men. One held him firmly as the other stabbed him three times in the leg before they both fled. It was later said to be a targeted attack on behalf of the Iranian regime in Tehran. A punishment for Zeraati's work as a journalist covering Iran. He survived, but the ambush is one of dozens of violent incidents in recent years linked to foreign states.
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‘I’m throwing everything at it’: one young man’s search for a job in Britain’s ‘worklessness capital’

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It’s mid-afternoon in the Lincolnshire seaside town of Cleethorpes and Cohen is sitting in the back seat of a car putting on an Easter bunny outfit. A group of teenagers nearby stare in amusement. Cohen isn’t fazed. He is hoping we can take some new photographs that he can use to advertise his mascot business for the upcoming holidays. Cohen, 19, lives with his parents a couple of miles down the road in neighbouring Grimsby and set up Co Co Mascots last year as one of his many attempts to find work.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

The Press (local newspaper in York)

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes, but not for work

What does it mean to be a journalist?

Curiosity satisfaction