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Matthew Palmer @so3brocktree.bsky.social 🇬🇧 Former soldier learning how to be a civvie. Accidental journalist. Fellow at the Council on Geostrategy.
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Pete Monks @petemonks.bsky.social Boring Australian suburban dad. Recipient of participation awards for Kosovo, East Timor, Afghanistan and a few other things and places.
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Tom Symonds @tomsymonds.bsky.social BBC Political and News Correspondent. Particular interests in crime, justice, policing. TV, Radio and Web. tom.symonds@bbc.co.uk
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Jackie Leonard @jackieleonard.bsky.social Ex BBC World Service. Who knew there was life outside?
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Benedict Garman @benedictgarman.com Investigative journalist, currently with BBC Verify.
Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social Presenter, Radio Four’s Front Row and Start the Week. 
ido @ido.bsky.social European cybersecurity editor, Ingeniøren; before that at the BBC and New Statesman.
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Alex Murray @leguape.bsky.social Equal opportunities verificator of stuff (just don't call it OSINT near me) since 2010. Would rather be riding a bike. Low key Puglian tourism & alcohol free drinks influencer.
Marc Settle @marcsettle.bsky.social BBC trainer, not journalist — I train BBC staff (& others) how to use phones for newsgathering.
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Callum May @callummay.co.uk News person. The usual stuff.
Ben Chu @benchu.bsky.social Policy and analysis correspondent, BBC Verify.
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Journo. BBC Verify.
Digital investigative journalism since 2014, cars/money data before, BBC Sport 2007-2011.
Paul Brown @paulybrown.bsky.social Journo at BBC Verify and BBC Monitoring. 
Anthony Zurcher @zurch.bsky.social BBC North America correspondent. A Texan who explains US politics to Brits, UK politics to Americans & Canadian politics to everyone. Views expressed ≠ BBC's
Mike Wendling @wendling.bsky.social Reporting on conspiracy theorists and the far-right.
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Alfie Tobutt @alfietobutt.bsky.social Senior journalist and producer at BBC News. Only on here to post the newspaper front and back pages a day early.
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Neil Henderson @hendopolis.bsky.social Cat slave and journalist 
Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social Mental health/tech stuff. Sell ads for local newspapers, keeping local public interest news alive. Former writer in residence @centreforMH. Ask me to write MH things. Director Social Spider CIC. DMs open. Podcast @BBCOuch
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William Armstrong @williamarmstrong.bsky.social Istanbul-based with BBC Monitoring. Founder, presenter, hype-man with Turkey Book Talk (@turkeybooktalk.bsky.social). I have no views.
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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social Journalist. Presenter of R4's #MoneyBox Live (Weds, 3pm). Also found on #WakeUpToMoney, #R4Today, BBC 5 Live, #GreenMoneyShow. Enthusiast. Humanist.
Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social TV Critic and Broadcaster. Must Watch + Remember Me? podcast. My book "OUT NOW" is out now. Dyslexic / Autistic.
Ian Hamilton @ianhamiltonbbc.bsky.social Journalist, guide dog owner, potter 
Matthew Bone @mattbonebbc.bsky.social Assitant Editor at BBC 5 Live
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Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social Financial journalist, broadcaster, and speaker. Seek the truth, find the truth, tell the truth. Unequivocally for free speech & press. Wilkie Collins expert too
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Stephen McDonell @stephenmcdonell.bsky.social BBC China Correspondent based in Beijing. Previously ABC Australia China Correspondent. 
Erwan Rivault @erwanrivault.com Data visualisation designer at BBC News focusing on satellite data, climate change and cartography | previously at @esa.int | Co-founder of @chartle.cc - A daily chart game
India Bourke @indiabourke.bsky.social BBC enviro journalist, writing & editing for Future and Earth. Reviews in @resurgencetrust.bsky.social . Prev @newstatesman.com , AFP & others. (Recently returned from mat leave)
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Jemimah Herd @herdjemimah.bsky.social Senior Producer for BBC Verify and BBC News | OSINT, visual investigations, fact checks 
David Molloy @davidmolloy.com Newsletters Editor at the Australian Financial Review, ex-BBC News in London. From Ireland, in Australia. davidmolloy.com
Caroline Wyatt @carolinewyatt.bsky.social Journalist, presenter BBC R4 Saturday PM. Former foreign correspondent. Living with MS.
Abdirahim Saeed @abdirahims.bsky.social BBC journalist. Open-source investigations (OSINT) editor at BBC Arabic. Posting on verification, visual investigations, disinformation, AI, data, Middle East, global affairs.