Career
Jayasekera began his journalistic career as an apprentice reporter in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire in 1980, worked for a variety of London and national newspapers during the 1980s and 1990s before going abroad, covering a dozen conflicts thereafter including Bosnia, Afghanistan and Iraq. He is a former managing editor of the Institute for War & Peace Reporting and is currently an Associate Editor for Index on Censorship magazine, where he is responsible for the charity's international programmes. He briefly worked in the theatre as a producer/administrator and retains a keen interest in new playwriting and community theatre.
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