Valerie Hopkins is currently the South-East Europe Correspondent for the Financial Times, where she covers the region out of Budapest. She has more than ten years of experience working in South-Eastern Europe. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian The Atlantic, The Washington ...

I am the Guardian's West Africa correspondent, based in Dakar. Previously I was The Times's correspondent in South Africa and Mexico. I can make audio and video for broadcast or the web to a very high standard. I also shoot my own photographs. I have an extensive knowledge of the region and good ...

Charles Maynes is a journalist and radio producer currently based in Moscow, Russia. His news reporting and features can be heard on various public broadcasters worldwide, including PRI’s 'The World’, This American Life, 99% Invisible, Radiolab, Benjamen Walker’s Theory of Everything, CBC Canada, ...