When in London, I applied for a weeklong placement at The Times.
I was attracted by the prestige of the paper, the quality of its writers, and the depth of their international news coverage.
I did my best to leave a nice memory of me during that week, and a couple of months later I got a call from them, asking me if I could come along on some Sundays as a Researcher.
There, I have been able to work side-by-side with top class correspondents like Anthony Loyd, David Charter and Hannah Lucinda Smith.
At The Times, I learned what makes a story a story, and how to catch the best ones.
You can read some of the stories I wrote for The Times here:
Pressure mounts on Maduro as thousands descend on Caracas
THE TIMES, 02 SEPTEMBER 2016 Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Caracas yesterday to demand that the government allow a referendum on whether the deeply unpopular President Maduro should be forced to step down. Protesters crowded the Venezuelan capital in support of the recall referendum, which the Socialist government has tried…
Maduro puts generals in charge of food supplies
THE TIMES 26 AUGUST 2016 Rice and other basic foods have been placed under the charge of generals and admirals by President Maduro of Venezuela in another sign of the military’s influence over the free-falling economy. Up to 50 military commanders will direct the distribution of various goods. The move was announced on state television…
Woman dies in lift after workers went on holiday
THE TIMES 07 MARCH 2016 A woman’s body has been found in a lift a month after engineers turned off the power for maintenance work before downing their tools for the Chinese new year holiday. Engineers returned last week to finish the job in the Chinese city of Xi’an and found the corpse. Two workers…
Iceberg wipes out 150,000 penguins
THE TIMES 15 FEBRUARY 2016 About 150,000 adélie penguins died after a huge iceberg grounded near their colony in Antarctica, forcing them to make a lengthy trek to find food. A newly published study by researchers from the University of New South Wales and the West Coast Penguin Trust in New Zealand documents how the…
Modi surprises Pakistan rival with ‘birthday greetings’ visit
THE TIMES 26 DECEMBER 2015 Narendra Modi made a surprise visit to Pakistan yesterday, the first by an Indian leader to its historic regional rival in more than a decade, after calling his counterpart to wish him a happy birthday and asking if it was all right if he dropped by. Mr Modi was on…
Maduro fines bakers over breadlines
THE TIMES, 12 SEPTEMBER 2016 Venezuela is fining bakeries for not selling enough bread and allowing queues of shoppers to form on their doorsteps. As President Maduro struggles to keep an iron grip on the collapsing economy, police officers have been ordered to inspect more than 1,100 bakeries and impose sanctions on those who they…
Most police in Venezuela have quit as murders rise
THE TIMES, 13 SEPTEMBER 2016 Venezuela is running out of police to patrol the streets because 75 per cent of officers have deserted, a study from the National Assembly suggests. Last week President Maduro celebrated the graduation of more than 2,000 officers, but three out of four of them are expected to quit by the…
Millions urged to protest over delayed Maduro vote
THE TIMES, 23 SEPTEMBER 2016 Venezuela is braced for more street protests after authorities dashed hopes for a referendum that could have forced the deeply unpopular Socialist government from power. The national election committee — which the opposition says is stacked with party loyalists — ruled that a referendum on whether President Maduro should step…
