Foreign Correspondent @BBCNews. I cover: UK Politics, South America, US, Middle East. @TEDTalks speaker. Investigations & interviews. Agent: @GreeneAndHeaton.
Joined August 2009
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Jan 15
My journalism and videos are now mostly on Instagram: @ionewells
Please get in touch on there or via email instead.
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Jun 7
"If you don't meet our demands, we will kill your drivers."
My report here ahead of Peru’s election where insecurity and instability have been top issues for voters as extortions have soared in the country.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9d2…
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Apr 27
My interview with Jesse Lingard on life in Brazil, Manchester United, World Cup, facing Neymar and more - out today on @BBCSport @BBCNews
Read: bbc.co.uk/sport/football/art…
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Mar 30
Now on a quarter of a million views on YouTube vs the 85k my traditional news coverage on the same day received on YT.
I still made a typical TV & radio package, online article, social video and did live coverage all day. This was designed to offer something more native for YT.
Mar 26
My behind the scenes vlog from #Venezuela - what’s it like reporting from inside the county now?
Watch and share on YouTube:
youtu.be/oUIvGT56fWg
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Mar 27
This format is not new for anyone on YouTube but, if you would like to see more of this - the footage we don’t put in our TV pieces, behind the scenes - then do consider sharing & commenting👇
Mar 26
My behind the scenes vlog from #Venezuela - what’s it like reporting from inside the county now?
Watch and share on YouTube:
youtu.be/oUIvGT56fWg
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Mar 26
My behind the scenes vlog from #Venezuela - what’s it like reporting from inside the county now?
Watch and share on YouTube:
youtu.be/oUIvGT56fWg
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Mar 25
This weeks’s #MustListen — our episode with @ionewells bringing her fab on-the-ground reporting.
Trump often touts Venezuela as his ideal model of regime/behavior change. So, 2 months after Maduro was ousted, what’s actually been going on inside?
bbc.com/audio/play/w3ct71dg
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Mar 17
What has my report from Venezuela out today got to do with the national football team?
Have a watch - and read the report here: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c86y… #manotengofe
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Jan 5
Useful info on @BBCWomansHour
from @ionewells and others
about the two prominent #Venezuela women in the news, #MariaCorinaMachado
and #DelcyRodriguez.
share.google/4H5OdKieNIuCR8Y…
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15 Dec 2025
Fear of crime and migration fuels Chile's swing to the right. My analysis here 👇
bbc.com/news/articles/c0q530…
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21 Nov 2025
Family of missing Colombian seek answers after US strike on alleged drug boat bbc.in/3XdR0KL
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17 Nov 2025
Chile's presidential election will go to a run-off vote in December. The far-right candidate Kast came second narrowly to the Communist Party candidate Jara, but given the other candidates were right-wing... I think Kast will be celebrating tonight.
bbc.com/news/articles/c0jd0v…
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16 Nov 2025
The leader of one of Ecuador's biggest drug-trafficking gangs has been captured in an operation involving Spanish police.
Wilmer "Pipo" Chavarria was the head of Los Lobos, one of the country's most notorious gangs.
bbc.com/news/articles/c93dz9…
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14 Nov 2025
Mining company BHP has been found liable for a 2015 dam collapse in Brazil, known as the country's worst-ever environmental disaster, by London's High Court.
BHP will appeal and says this duplicates compensation in Brazil for hundreds of thousands.
bbc.com/news/articles/c8034v…
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8 Nov 2025
I interviewed @jacindaardern at COP30 yesterday about climate solutions - and how world leaders that do want a green transition should respond if they receive a political backlash to net zero or conservation policies. Watch & listen across @BBCNews
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27 Oct 2025
Javier Milei has had a good night in Argentina’s midterms by the looks of it. Preliminary results show his party gained 27 deputies seats in the lower house of Congress and 6 seats in the Senate.
Lots of happy supporters outside the hotel where he is watching here in BA
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24 Oct 2025
If you understand authoritarian regimes, it's clear Trump's bounty on Maduro won't work. So what is afoot with #Venezuela? @ionewells
24 Oct 2025
In a new article for @BBCWorld, Prof. @mikealbertus addresses the US's bounty on Venezuala's Pres. Maduro, and the infeasibility of a betrayal coming from the leader's inner circle.
Read more here:
ow.ly/8OiP50XhKe9
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23 Oct 2025
Warships, fighter jets and the CIA - what is Trump's endgame in Venezuela? 🇻🇪🇺🇸
By me from South America and @joshcheetham from BBC Verify bbc.com/news/articles/c4gp2l…
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