Abbie Cheeseman is a freelance journalist based in Beirut. She covers the Middle East, particularly the Levant and the Gulf, through a straight news, features and investigative capacity.

She has been based in the Middle East since 2019. She works as the main stand-in Middle East Correspondent for The Daily Telegraph and The Times of London, as well as filing features and dispatches across a range of British and US publications.

Her background is in investigative journalism, particularly surrounding western covert military actions and air campaigns in the Middle East and Afghanistan. In 2022 she was part of the New York Times team that won the Pulitzer Prize for International Journalism for The Civilian Casualty Files, led by Azmat Khan.

She started in investigative journalism working both at Airwars and The Bureau of Investigative Journalism while completing her Masters degree in Interactive Journalism at City, University of London.

Her analysis on the Middle East is frequently seen and heard across live TV and radio. She files radio dispatches for CBC and has been the correspondent on TV packages for CNA.

She is available for commissions for all types of reporting, including data journalism and video. As well, of course, as hire for longer-term investigative projects.