Maria Ahmed is an award-winning freelance journalist with more than a decade of news and features experience in web and print. She started as a news reporter on The Big Issue, Eastern Eye and The Times before becoming deputy news editor for www.communitycare.co.uk, where she won the Howard League for Penal Reform Media award and was shortlisted for the Press Gazette Exclusive of the year. Maria has taught at Kingston University since 2010 and has developed new courses in multimedia journalism.
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