Ros Wynne-Jones is an award-winning journalist who has worked in conflict zones around the world from South Sudan to East Timor, Kosovo to Rwanda.
The Daily Mirror’s senior feature writer from January 2001 to December 2008, and a former Mirror trainee, she has also been a staff writer on the Independent on Sunday, Independent, Daily Express and Sunday Mirror.
She is now freelance, and has just published her first book, Something is Going to Fall Like Rain, a novel set in South Sudan.
As a feature writer she covers international and domestic social issues, interviews, colour writing and special reports.
She also specialises in campaigns, including Hope not Hate and Stop Knives Save Lives in the UK, as well as long term newspaper appeals in Darfur, Eastern Chad and Rwanda.
AWARDS
Ros has won two One World Media Awards in 2000 and 2006 for reporting from South Sudan and Rwanda, and in 1999 was Cosmopolitan magazine’s Media Woman of the Year. In 2005 and 2006, her reports from Rwanda were shortlisted for National Press Awards. In 2009, Stop Lives Save Lives was shortlisted for the Hugh Cudlipp Award.