Hugo Harvey

As a journalist, I’ve always been chasing the same question: who actually holds power, and what would it take to shift it.

I started this journey at 21 when I landed one of the last interviews with Noam Chomsky, a man I had looked up to since my late teens, asking him the questions I’d kept with me for years. It generated over 100,000 views across platforms, fans reached out to tell me how well I’d done, and the gratification I got from making it awoke something in me I’ve been chasing ever since.

I’m a 24-year-old journalist based in London, born in Cork, Ireland, and raised in Paris, France. I’m fundamentally interested in people and the stories they have to tell, leading with good-faith and an open mind. I conduct long-form political interviews on my own channel with the likes of Jeremy Corbyn, Zarah Sultana, Zack Polanski and many more, and clips of these interviews on social media have generated millions of views.

I’ve contributed to outlets like Tribune, The Canary and the Land & Climate Review. The first-person features I’ve written for The Irish Times have consistently ranked among the most-read on the site, which has 160,000 daily readers, with one piece named their Top Story of 2025.

In 2026 I won the Orwell Society and National Union of Journalists’ Young Journalist of the Year Award for a political column on the protests against the US military’s presence at Shannon Airport.

In 2025/26 I was selected as one of just 16 fellows (from around 200 applicants) for the Journo Resources Fellowship, a six-month programme of mentoring, workshops and editing that culminated in a long-form print feature on the state of music journalism. My piece on the tenth anniversary of the Bataclan attacks ran on The Irish Times as a Highlight and a Top Story and landed in the Top 10 Most Read, and the Oxford Mail later picked up my Irish Times column on studying at Oxford as a local news story. I've also been on air for the first time on BCfm's Weekend World, talking about interviewing.

I'm also a campaigner for Make Votes Matter, campaigning for proportional representation in the UK, a cause I feel passionately about for renewing democracy in this country. I've written a letter to the editor of The Guardian on it, contributed to a Canary video making the case on Earth Day, and interviewed George Monbiot on why electoral reform is inseparable from climate action.

Currently writing, available for commissions, open to interviews, and always up for a tip-off.