“A star of true and honourable journalism” — Abdel Bari Atwan
“Wicked investigative reporting” — Ali Abunimah
“An excellent journalist speaking out about Israeli crimes against Palestinians” — former Sunday Times senior correspondent Hala Jaber
“Essential reporting” — Max Blumenthal
“One of my favourite journalists working today” — Matt Kennard
Asa Winstanley is an investigative journalist living in London who writes about Palestine and the Middle East. He has been visiting Palestine since 2004.
He writes for the award-winning Palestinian news site The Electronic Intifada where he is an associate editor. He is co-host of The Electronic Intifada Podcast, with Nora Barrow-Friedman.
He also writes a regular column for the Middle East Monitor.
Other publications he’s written for include: Al-Akhbar English (Lebanon), Middle East Eye, The National, Jacobin, Ceasefire Magazine, New Left Project, Jerusalem Media and Communications Centre, the Morning Star and Freedom.
He wrote a chapter in the book Israel and Gaza: Behind the Media Veil, published by MEMO in 2014. Along with Frank Barat, he was the editor of Corporate Complicity in Israel’s Occupation (Pluto Press) a collection of written and spoken evidence from the London session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine.
He has also done research for SpinWatch and press work for the publisher Just World Books. He is a member of the National Union of Journalists.
Background
Asa Winstanley is originally from south Wales, first went to Palestine at the end of 2004 and worked in the occupied West Bank until 2007. Among other things, he was media coordinator for the International Solidarity Movement, and later wrote for and was an editor at the late Palestine Times, the first Palestinian English-language daily newspaper published in the occupied West Bank.
Contact details
To send information, commission an article, request a media appearance or anything else, email me on: . Twitter: @AsaWinstanley. I can’t promise to reply to all emails, but I do appreciate all tips and leads, and will reply to any I use.
My PGP public key can be found here. Here is is a decent-looking guide on how to use email encryption. German newspaper Der Spiegel has some good general tips on leaking in a secure way.
Here is my Scribd account, which I’ve used in the past to publish certain documents — a useful tool for buttressing articles with source documentation. I publish most documents straight to the EI site these days though.
