freelance

So she has some advice for journalists tempted by the burden of having bosses to “just go independent,” enticed, say, by the siren call of freelancing: “Just do a substack! It’s the future of journalism.”

Mark Wilberforce is a freelance journalist based in London and Accra.

But she is also someone who found herself prematurely out of government back in 2017 after it emerged, extraordinarily, that she had run a freelance foreign policy operation while on holiday in Israel.

The freelance writer behind the pieces was fired, with the articles eventually being taken down.

The author is a freelance writer and media professional living in Long Beach.