10:10 am today

Chasing the scoop in a war zone

From Saturday Morning, 10:10 am today

Turning her caustic gaze to the moral dilemma of reporting on someone else's misery, is journalist and writer Phoebe Greenwood. Her debut novel Vulture is a satire of the war news industry and its moral blind spots. 

Phoebe's covered British and foreign affairs for publications including the Guardian, the Spectator and the Sunday Times.

She was based in Jerusalem as a Middle East stringer for the Daily Telegraph and the Guardian between 2010-2013 and a staff editor and correspondent at the Guardian in London from 2013 - 2021, where she continued to commission and file from Israel/Palestine. When she left the Guardian in 2021, she was Assistant Editor of the paper.

She is currently the Europe Editor of Hyphen.

Writer Phoebe Greenwood next to the book cover for her novel 'Vulture'.

Photo: Allen & Unwin

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