Marseille-based journalist specialized in print and digital features (The New York Times, The Washington Post, BBC, Euronews) covering a range of topics, from human rights to travel. Fluent in French.

Justin Heifetz is a freelance journalist in France with more than a decade of experience in reporting, writing and editing.

Based out of Marseille, he covers news and social affairs with a focus on immigration, crime and human rights.

His work can be found in VICE, CNN, Anthony Bourdain: Read moreParts Unknown, Condé Nast’s them., Roads and Kingdoms, The Diplomat, The Outline, La Croix, South China Morning Post and elsewhere.

Before relocating to France in 2021, Justin worked as a journalist in Asia. He reported on Manila’s elderly drag performers living in transient shelters, social and workplace discrimination against North Korean defectors in Seoul and the threat of sexual violence facing Kolkata’s transgender community. In Hong Kong, Justin’s coverage helped reveal government-funded conversion therapy programs, teens risking dangerous abortions at illegal clinics, police officers assaulting and incriminating sex workers and the rampant abuse of live-in maids. His investigative writing chronicled how domestic workers from the Philippines become entrapped abroad and why Hong Kong is running out of space for waste, affordable housing and its own dead.

A native of Boston, Justin holds a Master of Journalism from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and a Bachelor of Arts in Classics from Franklin & Marshall College. He began his career at local newspaper desks in Cambodia, Myanmar and Thailand in 2011 and became a freelance reporter in 2016.

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Richard Assheton has half a decade's experience reporting from across Europe, Africa and Asia for news brands including The Times, the Financial Times and the Guardian, covering global events and producing exclusive news and features. His subjects are not always easy interviews: he has sought out Read morechild soldiers, catwalk models and long lost jungle-dwelling mammals. He has a specialism in Nigeria and West Africa having spent two years in Lagos as The Times and Sunday Times' West Africa correspondent. In 2024 he was named gold winner of MHP Group's 30 under 30 awards in international affairs.

He has appeared regularly on Times Radio, Monocle Radio and on podcasts. As an editor he has commissioned a team of 35 reporters at The Times, the UK’s leading serious newspaper, editing their news and long reads for publication across digital, social and mobile platforms, as well as in print. He has provided research and copywriting for agenda-setting books by authors Peter Oborne and Lord Ashcroft, and is writing a memoir. His photography regularly appears in The Sunday Times.

He works on a freelance basis and is available for writing, reporting and copy-editing projects as well as photography and media training. Based in Marseille, he holds two passports: British and Luxembourgish.

I'm a French trilingual freelance editor and photographer based in Marseille. I've got a driving licence and a vehicle here, so I can easily move around.

Being an editor, I also occasionnaly make some live TV reports for a German media. I am a member and co-founder of the French collective of Read moreindependent journalists Les Plumé.e.s. (http://******). 

I used to live and work in Central Asia for French media until I came back to the south of France in 2019 to launch Culot Creative, a digital media about sex and genders. 

My main thematics are women's rights and LGBTQI+ rights (reports and investigations), I also worked a lot about post-soviet countries, but I am always ready to jump in a new field.

I'm French and Irish, have lived 3 years in Germany and 1 year in Central Asia ==> Languages spoken : French (C2), English (C2), German (C1), Russian (B1)

Mary Fitzgerald is a journalist based in Marseille, France.

Cissoko Kimintan Ba Cissoko is a journalist based in Marseille, France.