Mark Townsend

Mark Townsend was selected for the 2025 Shortlist with The Brutal Truth Behind Italy’s Migrant Reduction: Beatings and Rape by EU-Funded Forces in Tunisia.

Mark Townsend is a senior reporter for the Guardian, covering global development and human rights. He has worked for the Guardian and The Observer, its former sister newspaper, for 24 years, covering many of the world’s major stories and conflict zones, most recently Sudan. He has won a number of awards including news reporter of the year at the Society of Editors press awards.