India Bourke
Journalist. Editor. Producer
Writing
From pipeline activists camped-out on the sweeping South Dakotan plains, to former miners nursing pints in Merthyr Tydfil’s Labour Club — I love helping share voices from the frontlines of our changing natural world. Stories of struggles, hopes, fears and solutions; of how people are coming together, even as our climate and landscapes are being wrenched apart.
You can find published examples of these feature stories - alongside reviews, news and analyses on related environmental subjects - in the New Statesman, BBC Future, The Ecologist and Prospect, among others.
TV production & development
I also have four years’ experience in documentary TV, conceiving and helping produce programs for the BBC and Channel4. Spanning culinary journeys through China and the story of Scotland’s ancient border-wars, each project was peopled by an amazing set of presenters, contributors and crew (and copious flasks of hot tea).
Editing
As an editor at AFP in Hong Kong from 2019-2020, I handled an array of copy from across the Asia Pacific region. I also helped the local desk report during this turbulent period encompassing the pro-democracy protests and the beginning of Covid-19.
In 2020, I returned to the UK and to the New Statesman, where I edited the online content of their new international team — before being made their full-time environment correspondent and covering a range of issue which you can read about here.
In addition, I also helped launch and co-edit a weekly newsletter, From a Climate Correspondent, which featured personal stories from writers around the world and which won an EFSJ NextJournalism prize and grant.
I went freelance in August 2023 and am open for commission.
Contact me
If you have any questions or comments or queries, or simply want to chat about creaturely things, you can reach me at:
Email india.bourke@gmail.com
Phone
+44 7525434093
X (Twitter) india_bourke
