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Rob Hastings

Rob Hastings was Deputy News Editor at The Independent newspaper before moving to i in 2016. He also writes features, travel articles and music reviews. In 2015 he was shortlisted for the Washington Post’s Laurence Stern Fellowship and for Amnesty International’s Gaby Rado prize, for a series of news features from Iran.

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