Gideon
Long

Freelance journalist



You can contact me at:
gideon.long01@bbc.co.uk

 
I have over 30 years of experience as a journalist. I started at Reuters, where I was staff for 14 years. I’ve covered conflicts in Iraq and Lebanon, World Cups in South Korea and South Africa and dozens of other major news stories. I was chief correspondent in Dublin and Santiago. I went freelance in Chile, working mostly for the BBC and the Economist. From Chile I moved to Colombia where I was the FT's Andean correspondent. More recently I’ve started teaching journalism to others. I’ve run training courses for the Thomson Reuters Foundation in Argentina, Colombia and Venezuela and for the United Nations in Panama. I work in print, radio and television and currently work as a producer on the BBC's Money & Work team in England.

TV

Horizons: Helping mothers in Chile connect with their premature babies