For ~a year, I've dug into the Hindu right's impact on Bollywood, to find out how the vauntedly liberal industry - directors, platforms, writers, actors - is responding. Nearly 50 interviews later, here's the piece. This is not a pretty picture... [1] newyorker.com/magazine/2022/…

Honored to be a finalist for this year's Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism for my coverage of West and Central Africa at my old Financial Times gig. Congrats to the winners and my fellow nominees!

An Afghan couple accuses a U.S. Marine of abducting their baby girl. Unbelievable story by my colleagues from The Associated Press investigative and enterprise teams: julietlinderman Claire Galofaro and Martha Mendoza bit.ly/3TzUGT7

Congrats to neiL Munshi for being shortlisted for this fab FT Weekend FT Weekend Magazine piece edited by Esther Bintliff enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/19ea00f…

Congrats (2x) to neiL Munshi for being an #FPAawards22 finalist for this FT Weekend Magazine story edited by Esther Bintliff In ‘Touriste’, heroic Russians save the Central African Republic. The truth is even stranger on.ft.com/3qroshf

What a hole in the ground in Accra tells you about emerging markets and the stress building. Great work by ⁦neiL Munshi⁩ and team for today’s ⁦Bloomberg⁩ Bloomberg Economics Big Take. bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Thrilled to be shortlisted for Foreign Reporter of the Year by the ⁦⁦The Press Awards⁩ for my coverage of West & Central Africa at my old Financial Times gig. Really honored to be in the company of this group of incredible reporters. thepressawards.com/shortlist-nati…

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This really is an astonishing piece of journalism by neiL Munshi, who won last night. I reread it all over again this morning, and can't imagine a worthier winner. ft.com/content/11ac95…

💫Last night neiL Munshi won a Press Gazette award for his mind-boggling FT Weekend Magazine story about the Wagner Group in the CAR. Judges said: "You just wouldn't read this anywhere else. A great story with big foreign policy implications" ft.com/content/11ac95…

Big thanks to everyone who said congrats! One thing: so much of the success of this piece, like many others we worked on over the years for FT Weekend Magazine, is down to Esther Bintliff — one of the best editors I’ve ever worked with. She deserves all the plaudits I’ve received for it

Oil output in Nigeria fell under President Buhari’s watch, while poverty and violence went up, fueling a brain drain trib.al/CPJXLFc

From a brain drain to soaring inflation and falling oil production. A look at the challenges facing #Nigeria's next president. #Buhari's eight-year rule ends in May. The election's scheduled for Feb. 25. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… neiL Munshi

BIGTAKE: Africa’s most populous nation heads to the polls on Saturday, and the next president will inherit an economy and country on its knees, reports neiL Munshi @WTBClowes Emele Onu Bloomberg Africa Bloomberg Politics lnkd.in/eyGxMT69

What can be done to turn things around in Nigeria? Bloomberg Africa journalists neiL Munshi and Ruth | Owiwi. talk about what’s at stake in this election on the Big Take podcast: trib.al/saBYrd2

“The only reason we’re still paid attention in African capitals,” said Nwanze, “is because our size means that we’re unignorable to everyone in these parts.” neiL Munshi, @WTBClowes & Emele Onu on what's gone wrong for Nigeria under Buhari bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Yet more deserved plaudits to neiL Munshi for his outstanding reporting on the Wagner Group in sub-Saharan Africa - highly commended as foreign correspondent of the year at the U.K. Press awards

Very cool news from the old gig to wake up to. Big thanks to Orla Ryan & Esther Bintliff, two of the best editors in the biz!