Paisley Dodds

Paisley Dodds is the former London bureau chief for The Associated Press and writes about security and intelligence for The Associated Press news wire.

Life & Career

Dodds is a native of Painesville, Ohio. She is a graduate of John Carroll University and is currently finishing her master's at Cambridge University. In 1994, she joined the AP in Johannesburg, South Africa. After nearly three years covering post-Apartheid South Africa, she then worked for the AP in Miami, Little Rock and Boston before joining the international desk in the New York headquarters. In 2001, she was promoted to Caribbean News Editor in San Juan, Puerto Rico. From 2001 to 2005, her primary assignments included Haiti and Guantanamo where she broke several investigative pieces about abuse in the U.S. prison camp. In 2005, she was named London Bureau Chief,^[1] a role she held until late 2013 when she was named a London-based correspondent with security and intelligence matters as her beat. She is currently on sabbatical. Other assignments have included Afghanistan, Pakistan and Israel. She is the recipient of the George Polk award for her foreign reporting in Haiti. She also won the Joseph L. Brechner Freedom of Information Award for her work in Guantanamo, the Enterprise Reporting Award from the AP Managing Editors Association, an honourable mention from the Overseas Press Club of America and the Hugh Hefner First Amendment Award for her investigative reporting at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo.

Awards

• 2004 George Polk Award ^[2] Joseph L. Brechner Freedom of Information Award, the Enterprise Reporting Award from the AP Managing Editors Association, Hugh Hefner First Amendment Award, Hal Boyle Award from the Overseas Press Club of America.

References

External links

• "Articles Written by: PAISLEY DODDS", Source Hub