Guardian Egypt correspondent Patrick Kingsley may have been detained three times this year alone, but he still sees his job covering the crisis-stricken country as a “huge privilege”.
The 24-year-old was named New Journalist of the Year at the British Journalism Awards this month and told Press Gazette: “I suspect people were thinking – who is this guy and what is he doing here…I hope I’ve proved some people wrong by bringing in the stories.”
The work he is most proud of is the 5,000-word investigation which won him the Press Gazette award, into the army and police’s killing of 51 protestors outside government buildings earlier this year.
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