My reporting on Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy in communities of colour won me the Award for Combating Polarisation and placed me on the 30 To Watch Journalists list.
I was also shortlisted for Press Gazette's British Journalism Awards in November 2021.
About Me
Zesha Saleem an award-winning freelance journalist, editor and writer. Currently, she works as a Money journalist for The i Paper where she writes a range of personal finance case studies on a regular basis.
She also works as a News reporter for the Daily Mirror on a freelance basis too.
She started working as a writer when she was 18, and has extensive experience in covering politics, education, health, science and personal finance/consumer issues.
Zesha has contributed to a range of print and digital publications, including British Vogue, The Guardian, The Times, Huck Magazine, The Big Issue, The Telegraph, The i Paper, The Independent, Tribune Magazine, Radio Times, The Financial Times, gal-dem, Dazed Digital, VICE World News, Stylist Magazine, Woman & Home, Aurelia Magazine, OK Magazine, Huck Magazine, Times Radio and more.
Zesha has worked regularly for Metro UK in the past, where she commissioned and edited first person and opinion pieces for Metro Platform. She also wrote for the Lifestyle desk, where she covered everything from house renovations to proposals on hormone replacement therapy.
In July 2022, Zesha joined The Financial Times as their News intern – where she wrote stories and contributed to reports for different desks. In just two weeks, she covered issues from pharmaceutical funding to covering news on the field, such as reporting on the travel chaos at Manchester Airport.
Apart from that, Zesha also has experience in writing on a commercial level. She has contributed to commercial supplements for APL Media, which are distributed in national newspapers and has also done copywriting work in the past, for clients including Samsung .