James Meek
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| Born | 1962 |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Edinburgh University. |
Former Moscow bureau chief for the Guardian | |
Not to be confused the corporate journalist, James Gordon Meek who went missing after an FBI raid on his home.
James Meek is a British novelist and journalist.
Career
In 1991 Meek moved to Kiev and in 1994 to Moscow. He joined the staff of The Guardian, becoming its Moscow bureau chief.[1] He covered the conflict in Chechnya, a Russian breakaway region, In connection with this work, he interviewed Anna Politkovskaya, a Russian activist who later was shot in her Moscow home.[2]
In 2003 Meek crossed the border from Kuwait into Iraq, following the invading US armies to Baghdad, being embedded with British forces[3]. Meek covered the military conflict in Afghanistan, again being embedded with British forces in 2006[4]. He left The Guardian in 2006.[5]
Publications
Meek is the author of five novels, two books of short stories and a book of essays about privatisation.[6]
References
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/sep/05/top10s.russia
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/oct/15/gender.uk
- ↑ https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v38/n15/james-meek/diary
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/jun/15/afghanistan-embedded-journalists-mod
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/profile/jamesmeek
- ↑ https://www.abc.net.au/listen/radionational/archived/booksandarts/james-meek27s-the-heart-broke-in/4328262