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February 13th, 2012 Media coverage

Here are some of the highlights of the coverage I’ve delivered in humanitarian emergencies as Save the Children’s media manager. I’ve planned and executed high level media campaigns on humanitarian issues, both from the field and from London. I’ve been interviewed dozens of times by both broadcast and print media including BBC News, CNN, Al Jazeera, Channel Four News, ITV News, The Guardian, The Times, The Independent, The Telegraph, The Sun, The Mirror, The Daily Mail and The Express. Here are some of the highlights of the coverage I’ve delivered in humanitarian emergencies as Save the Children’s media manager.

Front Pages

Here’s the Guardian story that ran off the back of The Dangerous Delay report, a piece of joint advocacy-work between Save the Children and Oxfam.

This is the Independent on Syria- its more a front page teaser than a front page story, but front page anythings are few and far between!

Here’s the Indy again, this time on our work on chronic malnutrition. Its not strictly a humanitarian issue, but chronically malnourished children are far more likely to become acutely malnourished, and because the issue is less visible, it’s really a hidden crisis.

And this is Umi, a little girl I met in Kenya in 2011. She was on the brink of starvation the first time I saw her- at six months, she weighed less than many premature babies. That was in the summer- by Christmas, this is how she looked! A real embodiment of the lifesaving work that we do.

This is one of the first big stories on the famine in East Africa in 2011. We’d worked for months to get this is the papers, and after we put out a press release on Somali refugees arriving in Dadaab, we suddenly found ourselves inundated with media requests.