Tristan McConnell

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Tristan McConnell is a writer and foreign correspondent based in Kenya. [1] [ unreliable source ] He has been a correspondent for The Times , The Economist , Monocle , GlobalPost and Agence France-Presse. [2] [ unreliable source ]

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Early life

McConnell attended The King's School, Canterbury, before studying social anthropology at Magdalene College, Cambridge. [3] [ unreliable source ]

Career

McConnell has lived and worked in Africa since 2004.

He has reported from dozens of countries, including Somalia, Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, Mali, and Uganda [4] [ unreliable source ] writing both long-form and news stories. [5] [ self-published source ] In 2016, he won awards from the Overseas Press Club of America, [6] the Prix Bayeux for War Correspondents, [7] and the Society for Features Journalism [8] for his long-form account of a terrorist attack on a Nairobi shopping mall. [9]

He has been a finalist for numerous Kurt Schork awards, including in 2007, [10] 2014 [11] and 2015, [12] and has been short-listed for others. [13] [ unreliable source ]

His articles and essays have appeared in The New Yorker , [14] Harper's Magazine , [15] [ unreliable source ] GQ , [16] [ unreliable source ] Columbia Journalism Review , [17] New York, [18] and Foreign Policy . [19] [ unreliable source ]

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