Deborah Haynes (born October 1976) is a British journalist, security and defence editor at

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. She was previously known for her work as defence editor for ''

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'' as well as documenting the dangers Iraqi interpreters faced since British troops withdrew from Iraq.

Biography

Haynes grew up in

Surrey Surrey () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South East England, bordering Greater London to the south west. Surrey has a large rural area, and several significant urban areas which form part of the Greater London Built-up Area. ...

, attending

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. She had her first experience of journalism during a

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week where she was placed with ''

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News''. Haynes then graduated from the

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in 1999 with a degree in law and Japanese. In 1999, she began working as a producer for the British bureau of the Japanese television channel

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. Then she worked for

Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse (AFP) is a French international news agency headquartered in Paris, France. Founded in 1835 as Havas, it is the world's oldest news agency. AFP has regional headquarters in Nicosia, Montevideo, Hong Kong and Washington, D.C ...

and

Reuters Reuters ( ) is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters Corporation. It employs around 2,500 journalists and 600 photojournalists in about 200 locations worldwide. Reuters is one of the largest news agencies in the world. The agency was estab ...

. At the end of May 2018, it was announced that Haynes was to leave ''The Times'' to join

as their Foreign Affairs editor. She replaced

Sam Kiley Sam Kiley (born 1964, Kenya) is a Senior International Correspondent at CNN. Prior to CNN, he was the Foreign Affairs Editor of Sky News. He is a journalist with over twenty years' experience, based at different times of his career in London, Los ...

who left Sky News that January to join

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. Haynes speaks Japanese and French.

Awards

In 2008, Haynes won the inaugural

Bevins Prize The Bevins Prize is a British award recognising outstanding investigative journalism Investigative journalism is a form of journalism in which reporters deeply investigate a single topic of interest, such as serious crimes, political corrupti ...

and an Amnesty International UK Media Award for her work documenting the dangers that Iraqi interpreters faced after the withdrawal of British troops from the country. She also campaigned for Iraqi interpreters to be allowed to live in the UK. She was awarded with an honorary degree from the

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in Greater Manchester in 2011.

References

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