Hugo Greenhalgh

Hugo Greenhalgh was selected for the 2020 European Press Prize shortlist with ‘Stonewall 50+.’

Hugo Greenhalgh is the editor of Openly, the LGBT+ news website by the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters.

Together with the team at the Thomson Reuters Foundation, Hugo Greenhalgh’s multimedia piece highlights the new battle lines for queer rights around the world. The Stonewall riots outside a gay bar in New York sparked the birth of the modern LGBT+ rights movement but 50 years later, the battle still rages.

Over the course of more than 25 years as a journalist, Hugo Greenhalgh worked at the Financial Times in various different roles for more than 11 years, has reported live from Red Square, worked as a broadcast journalist in Georgia and written for many of the UK national newspapers, including The Independent and the Sunday Telegraph.