Lin Taylor is a cross-platform journalist, editor and producer, currently covering global inequalities and human rights at the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the non-profit arm of Thomson Reuters.
For more than a decade, she has reported on refugee and migrant issues, aid and development, racial inequities, climate impacts, modern slavery and human trafficking, digital rights, gender issues and other under-reported stories for the Reuters news wire.
Lin has reported from Jordan, Fiji, Vanuatu, Hong Kong, Vietnam, France, Spain, Serbia, Croatia, and of course, Australia, where she was born and bred after her family fled Vietnam as refugees in the late 1970s.
‘The Smuggling Game’, a multimedia project on the mechanics of migrant smuggling that she co-produced with a colleague, was a finalist for the ‘Innovation Award’ at the European Press Prize 2018. It was also long-listed for a One World Media 'Refugee Reporting Award'.
In 2018, Lin was one of 30 journalists selected for a fellowship at the Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University in New York. She was also awarded a media fellowship in 2018 by rights group CIVICUS to cover climate change in the Pacific.
She previously freelanced as a digital journalist and editor with CNN International. Prior to that, she was a multiplatform journalist and editor at SBS Australia, an award-winning national television and radio broadcaster.
In her spare time, Lin volunteers with The Guardian Foundation’s NewsWise to help improve media literacy in primary school kids. She is also part of the Women In Journalism mentoring programme.
Lin lives in London these days, but she is most at home swimming somewhere off the coast of Australia.