Joshua Nelken-Zitser is an award-winning Senior News Reporter at Business Insider's London bureau, covering breaking news, foreign and social affairs, and US politics.
In 2024, Joshua received the Axel Springer Award for Change – Journalistic Piece of the Year and was highly commended at the British Journalism Awards.
Previously, Joshua was an editor for LBC and a freelance producer for BBC Radio 2.
He has an MA (First Class Hons.) in Politics from the University of Edinburgh and an MA in Broadcast Journalism from City, University of London. He also studied at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Joshua has appeared on the BBC, Times Radio, Sky News, NBC, The Young Turks, iHeartRadio, and 5 News, among others.
He is also a HarperCollins Author and Design Academy graduate, a volunteer for the Association of Jewish Refugees, and a mentor for The Refugee Journalism Project.
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Breaking news, US politics, global population trends, refugees, human rights, lawsuits, LGBTQ+ issues, Iran, and Israel.
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Egg prices hit another record high in February, but there's some good news — wholesale prices are now falling, and egg shortages are easing up.
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