Marseille-based journalist specialized in print and digital features (The New York Times, The Washington Post, BBC, Euronews) covering a range of topics, from human rights to travel. Fluent in French.

Richard Assheton has half a decade's experience reporting from across Europe, Africa and Asia for news brands including The Times, the Financial Times and the Guardian, covering global events and producing exclusive news and features. His subjects are not always easy interviews: he has sought out Read morechild soldiers, catwalk models and long lost jungle-dwelling mammals. He has a specialism in Nigeria and West Africa having spent two years in Lagos as The Times and Sunday Times' West Africa correspondent. In 2024 he was named gold winner of MHP Group's 30 under 30 awards in international affairs.

He has appeared regularly on Times Radio, Monocle Radio and on podcasts. As an editor he has commissioned a team of 35 reporters at The Times, the UK’s leading serious newspaper, editing their news and long reads for publication across digital, social and mobile platforms, as well as in print. He has provided research and copywriting for agenda-setting books by authors Peter Oborne and Lord Ashcroft, and is writing a memoir. His photography regularly appears in The Sunday Times.

He works on a freelance basis and is available for writing, reporting and copy-editing projects as well as photography and media training. Based in Marseille, he holds two passports: British and Luxembourgish.

I'm a French trilingual freelance editor and photographer based in Marseille. I've got a driving licence and a vehicle here, so I can easily move around.

Being an editor, I also occasionnaly make some live TV reports for a German media. I am a member and co-founder of the French collective of Read moreindependent journalists Les Plumé.e.s. (http://******). 

I used to live and work in Central Asia for French media until I came back to the south of France in 2019 to launch Culot Creative, a digital media about sex and genders. 

My main thematics are women's rights and LGBTQI+ rights (reports and investigations), I also worked a lot about post-soviet countries, but I am always ready to jump in a new field.

I'm French and Irish, have lived 3 years in Germany and 1 year in Central Asia ==> Languages spoken : French (C2), English (C2), German (C1), Russian (B1)