Journalistic Career
Seddon currently writes for amongst others, The Guardian, The Independent, Daily Mail, The Spectator, New Statesman, Private Eye, The Oldie, Tribune, Country Life, 'Big Think' (New York) and The National (Abu Dhabi). He was formerly the New York-based United Nations correspondent for Al Jazeera English, having helped set up and run the first ever Aljazeera English TV New York Bureau.
He has reported for the BBC from inside Iraq, North Korea and China, as well as for Sky TV from Yemen and for Al Jazeera English from North Korea, Syria, Dr Congo, Kenya, Ethiopia and Haiti. Seddon also reported regularly from the United Nations and from the White House, and has lectured widely in North America and the UK. He has been a Diarist for the London Evening Standard and has been a frequent contributor to The Guardian, The Independent, The Times, New Statesman and Private Eye. He was an early guest on Have I Got News For You, and has appeared as a commentator on numerous UK and US television and radio programmes, including Newsnight, Channel 4 News, Breakfast with Frost, The Politics Show and the Today programme.
He was the first foreign reporter to broadcast live from Pyongyang, the North Korean capital in 2006, soon after performing the first trans Atlantic 'live' from New York to Doha for al Jazeera English TV at the time of that Networks' launch. He was also the first to reveal that 'extraordinary rendition' may have taken place on the British owned Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia in 2003. He repeated the claims for al Jazeera English TV, shortly before the then Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, admitted that extraordinary rendition had indeed taken place, using the island of Diego Garcia. Seddon has campaigned for justice for the Chagossians of the British Indian Ocean Territory for over twenty years. More recently, he has been active in the campaign for new elections in the Maldives, following the toppling of that country's first democratic President, Mohamed Nasheed in a coup in 2012.
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