Charlotte Greenfield

Journalist

Islamabad, Pakistan

Correspondent for Reuters in Pakistan Graduate of Columbia's School of Journalism, Stabile Investigative Fellow 2014, Reuters trainee in Jakarta, former Reuters New Zealand correspondent

Charlotte Greenfield

Journalist

Islamabad, Pakistan

Correspondent for Reuters in Pakistan Graduate of Columbia's School of Journalism, Stabile Investigative Fellow 2014, Reuters trainee in Jakarta, former Reuters New Zealand correspondent

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A Trip to Washington
On Saturday 24th August 2014 thousands of Americans gathered in Washington to celebrate Martin Luther King's historic march 50 years earlier and to protest set backs to the civil rights movement . Early that morning, at 3am, at group of New Yorkers met at the National Action Network's headquarters in Harlem, waiting to fill seven buses bound for Washington.
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Hundreds of guilty pleas later, fix-it judge readies to leave Bronx
Judge Patricia DiMango cleared a massive backlog in criminal cases, using methods decried by many defense lawyers.
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'She is speaking out to us': Māori leader says volcano eruption was a message
WHAKATANE, New Zealand (Reuters) - Pouroto Ngaropo, standing on an ancient settlement site overlooking the island of Whakaari, recites his ancestry back thousands of years, back to the volcano which erupted there on Monday. “Whakaari is my connection to the ocean, to the land, and to the environment around me ... we are one and she’s our ancestor,” said the 51-year old Māori spiritual leader whose genealogy is depicted in the tattoo art known as a ‘tā moko’ adorning his face.
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Before mosque attacks, New Zealand failed to record hate crimes for years
CHRISTCHURCH/WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Weeks before a gunman killed 50 Muslims in Christchurch, a man had threatened to burn copies of the Koran outside New Zealand mosques, in what community leaders said was the latest in a long list of threatening behavior against religious minorities. Police said they warned a 38-year-old man over the incident, which was unrelated to the Christchurch attack, but could not say if it was part of a pattern.
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'I am your mother now': New Zealand mosque shootings hit tight-knit Bangladesh community hard
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (Reuters) - Husna Ahmed was 19 when she arrived in New Zealand from Bangladesh on her wedding day. Waiting to meet her was Farid, the man she would marry in a few hours, as their families had agreed. A quarter of a century later, the life they had built together was torn apart when a gunman walked into the Al Noor mosque in Christchurch and began firing on worshippers at Friday prayers.
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As Taliban talks gather pace, Afghan women fear turning back clock
KABUL (Reuters) - Eighteen years ago, at the height of the Taliban’s power in Afghanistan, Roshan Mashal secretly taught her daughters to read and write alongside a dozen local girls who smuggled school books to her house in potato sacks. Mashal’s daughters have since gained university degrees in economics and medicine.
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INSIGHT-Payment due: Pacific islands in the red as debts to China mount
* China’s lending to S.Pacific islands from almost zero to $1.3 bln in a decade. * One-third of countries that recognise Taiwan are Pacific islands. WELLINGTON/SYDNEY, July 31 (Reuters) - Just over a decade ago, deadly riots in the capital of Tonga, Nuku’alofa, destroyed much of the small Pacific nation’s central business and government districts.
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New Zealand's Prime Moggy, Paddles the six-toed cat, meets an untimely end
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Paddles, the New Zealand prime minister’s ginger cat, may have had six toes and a wide social media following but she has run out of lives. Jacinda Ardern, the charismatic new leader of New Zealand, announced the death of the Prime Moggy on Wednesday after Paddles was hit by a car the previous evening, prompting an outpouring of grief on social media.
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Pacific nations crack down on North Korean ships as Fiji probes more than 20 vessels
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - South Pacific island nations are scouring shipping records for vessels with links to North Korea after Fiji said it had identified 20 falsely flagged ships it suspects the isolated regime is using to evade United Nations sanctions. Fiji, along with Interpol and the Singapore-based regional shipping regulator Tokyo MoU, are investigating the vessels for links to North Korea, a spokesman for the country’s Maritime Safety Authority (MSAF) told Reuters on Friday.
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New Zealand's far north paves way for China's 'One Belt, One Road'
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A far-north New Zealand region has agreed to help China Railway Group Ltd invest in infrastructure in the depressed area, a regional council head told Reuters, as China looks to further advance its “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR) program. The Northland Regional Council agreed this week to provide China Railway with information on possible investments, such as high-end hotels and roads, and advise the firm on the New Zealand government procurement process and making introductions to national government officials.
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New Zealand hires former Trump campaign director to lobby for business visas
New Zealand has hired a former campaign field director for U.S. President Donald Trump to help its push for a long-sought visa that would give the Pacific nation's business employees easier access to the United States. New Zealand's embassy in Washington hired boutique firm Sonoran Policy Group's Stuart Jolly to lobby the U.S. administration for access to E1 and E2 business and investor visas, according to documents filed with a U.S. government database last week.
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New Zealand's populist Peters to rise in the gap left by Key
One big winner from New Zealand prime minister John Key's surprise resignation is likely to be maverick politician Winston Peters, a popular protectionist who rails against foreign investment "lunacy" and plans to obstruct the government's pro-China stance. Peters and his New Zealand First party look set to again play kingmaker as the ruling National Party seeks a fourth term in government next year.
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'Utter devastation' after major quake, aftershocks hit New Zealand
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake pummeled central New Zealand early on Monday, killing at least two people, damaging roads and buildings and setting off hundreds of strong aftershocks. Emergency response teams flew by helicopter to the region at the epicenter of the tremor, which struck just after midnight some 91 km (57 miles) northeast of Christchurch in the South Island, amid reports of injuries and collapsed buildings.
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Space revolution hatching in a New Zealand paddock
* Rocket designed to be cheaper to fuel satellite revolution. AUCKLAND, New Zealand, Nov 3 (Reuters) - The next revolution in space, making humdrum what was long the special preserve of tax-funded giants like NASA, will be launching next year from a paddock in New Zealand’s remote South Island. The 16-metre carbon-cased rocket being assembled in a small hangar near Auckland Airport will weigh just 1,190 kilogrammes, and with fuel and payload will be only about a third the weight of SpaceX’s Falcon 1, the first privately developed launch vehicle to go into orbit back in 2008.
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Experts question data behind Indonesian president's war on drugs
JAKARTA, May 8 (Reuters) - Indonesia has executed 14 drug traffickers this year as part of President Joko Widodo’s war on a “narcotics emergency” he says is killing at least 40 people a day, but researchers have questioned the reliability of the study that produced that figure. Amid international condemnation of the execution of mostly foreign drug convicts, the president’s office has cited research by the country’s narcotics agency (BNN), but five international experts contacted by Reuters said its methodology was unreliable.
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Should We 'Fix' Intersex Children?
When Mark and Pam Crawford took their family to Great Wolf Lodge, a water adventure park, for a week’s vacation, their seven-year-old made a request. “Since we don’t know anybody,” S asked her parents, “can I be a boy?”.
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By way of a law degree, a debaucherous student magazine (critic.co.nz) and an Indonesian newspaper (thejakartaglobe.com), I graduated in 2014 from the Master of Science program at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

I was a fellow at Columbia's Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism and use this training to apply investigative source-building, data journalism and research skills to general reporting.

After completing the Reuters Journalism Program as a trainee in Jakarta and a short stint in Sydney, I worked in New Zealand covering a national election, natural disasters, the March 15th 2019 mosque attacks, and China's rise in the Pacific.

I am now based in Islamabad where I cover a mix of politics, security and economics in Pakistan and Afghanistan for Reuters.