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Ella McSweeney (born 31 October 1978) is an Irish food and farming journalist and reporter. She has worked for BBC, RTÉ (Ireland's national broadcaster) and the Guardian newspaper. She graduated from Trinity College, Dublin and is a post graduate student in food policy at City University, London.


Early life

Ella McSweeney grew up in Ireland. She graduated with a first-class honours degree in science - specialising in
zoology Zoology ()The pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon. is the branch of biology that studies the Animal, animal kingdom, including the anatomy, structure, embryology, evolution, Biological clas ...
- from Trinity College, Dublin.


Career


Radio

McSweeney studied science at Trinity College, Dublin, specialising in zoology. /sup> She began working for RTÉ Radio in 2000, producing Future Tense and Nature's Web. She then spent three years at BBC radio, television and online media in Belfast and London before returning to RTÉ in 2004. She presented and produced a number of RTÉ series, including ''The Green Light'', ''Farm Week'', ''RTÉ's Big Science Debate'', as well as science documentaries for RTÉ's
Documentary on One The ''RTÉ Documentary on One'', or ''Doc on One'', is an anthology documentary radio series broadcast by Irish public service broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann's Radio 1 Radio 1 or Radio One most commonly refers to: *BBC Radio 1, a musi ...
slot. From 2004 to 2007, McSweeney travelled around rural Ireland recording her wildlife and walking series ''Shanks Mare''. /sup> She also made the marine series ''Into the Deep'', and the award-winning science series ''Mind Matters''. /sup> She has reported for BBC Radio 4's Farming Today and also the BBC Food Programme. In 2013 she presented a BBC World Service documentary on
vertical farming Vertical farming is the practice of growing crops in vertically stacked layers. It often incorporates controlled-environment agriculture, which aims to optimize plant growth, and soilless farming techniques such as hydroponics, aquaponics, and ae ...
and in 2015 she went to Kentucky to make a radio documentary on Wendell Berry which was broadcast on BBC Radio 4.


Television

McSweeney has presented RTÉ's award-winning food and farming series ''Ear to the Ground'' since 2008.[4] In 2009, she presented the lifestyle TV series Living Lightly on RTÉ.[5] She was a reporter for RTÉ television's investigative consumer series The Consumer Show in 2015. She presented a one-hour factual documentary on thoroughbred horses called "Power in the Blood" for RTÉ. In July 2020, she presented RTÉ's six-part COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 business series ''Open for Business (TV series), Open for Business'' alongside Richard Curran.


Journalism

McSweeney has written for the Guardian, Irish Times, Irish Examiner and other publications. In 2015, she was part of a Guardian team which published a year-long investigation into the use of migrant workers in the Irish fishing industry.


Awards

In 2000, McSweeney was named Young Science Journalist of the Year for a documentary she made on the human genome project.[6] Her work on ''Mind Matters'' earned her a national Phonographic Performance Ireland (PPI) Radio Award in 2007.[7] She has won two national Agricultural Journalism Awards in Ireland for radio and print journalism, and in 2015 she won the International Federation of Agricultural Journalist star prize for broadcasting for her report on antibiotic use in Irish agriculture.


References

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