Deborah Haynes (born October 1976) is a British journalist, security and defence editor at

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. She was previously known for her work as defence editor for ''

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'' as well as documenting the dangers Iraqi interpreters faced since British troops withdrew from Iraq.

Biography

Haynes grew up in

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, attending

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. She had her first experience of journalism during a

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week where she was placed with ''

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News''. Haynes then graduated from the

University of Cardiff Cardiff University () is a public research university in Cardiff, Wales. It was established in 1883 as the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire and became a founding college of the University of Wales in 1893. It was renamed Unive ...

in 1999 with a degree in law and Japanese. In 1999, she began working as a producer for the British bureau of the Japanese television channel

TV Tokyo JOTX-DTV (channel 7), branded as is a Japanese television station that serves as the flagship of the TX Network.Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse (; AFP) is a French international news agency headquartered in Paris, France. Founded in 1835 as Havas, it is the world's oldest news agency. With 2,400 employees of 100 nationalities, AFP has an editorial presence in 260 c ...

and

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. At the end of May 2018, it was announced that Haynes was to leave ''The Times'' to join

as their Foreign Affairs editor. She replaced

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who left Sky News that January to join

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. Haynes speaks Japanese and French.

Awards

In 2008, Haynes won the inaugural

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and an Amnesty International UK Media Award for her work documenting the dangers that Iraqi interpreters faced after the withdrawal of British troops from the country. She also campaigned for Iraqi interpreters to be allowed to live in the UK. She was awarded with an honorary degree from the

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in Greater Manchester in 2011.

References

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