Johann Hari - Career

Career

In 2000 he was joint winner of The Times Student News Journalist of the Year award for his work on the Cambridge student newspaper Varsity. After university he joined the New Statesman, where he worked between 2001 and 2003, and then wrote two columns a week for The Independent. At the 2003 Press Gazette Awards, he won Young Journalist of the Year. A play by Hari, Going Down in History, was performed at the Garage Theatre in Edinburgh, and his book God Save the Queen? was published by Icon Books in 2002.

In addition to being a columnist for The Independent and the Huffington Post, Hari's work also appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, The Nation, Le Monde, El Pais, the Sydney Morning Herald and Ha'aretz. He appeared regularly as an arts critic on the BBC Two programme the Review Show, and he was a book critic for Slate. In 2009 he was named by the Daily Telegraph as one of the most influential people on the left in Britain.

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