Joe Parkinson

@JoeWSJ

World Investigations Chief, The Wall Street Journal. Author of SWAP, A Secret History of the New Cold War & BRING BACK OUR GIRLS.

London on.wsj.com/knqs4S Joined January 2009

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Joe Parkinson @JoeWSJ Feb 19, 2021

In 2017, @drewhinshaw & I entered a Nigerian cabinet minister’s office to ask why Boko Haram was ascendent. “Because we gave them millions of euros for the Chibok girls!” he said with a nervous chuckle

It was a slip of a tongue that set us on a journey

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Joe Parkinson @JoeWSJ Mar 14

I was lucky enough to meet John at the Rixos hotel in Tripoli while NATO was bombing Gaddafi’s nearby compound. He was very kind and encouraging—and also the only foreign correspondent I’ve met who insisted on bringing a printer to a war zone…

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Had the great good fortune to meet him in Afghanistan and Iraq back in the day. He was a raconteur of the first order. During one especially liquid dinner in Baghdad in 2002 when Saddam was still in charge, he told the story of being suspended for a month during Bosnia war. (1)
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Joe Parkinson @JoeWSJ Feb 4

Shaking my head in disbelief and sorrow at the number of stellar foreign correspondents laid off by the Post today.

Surely the biggest single cull of foreign reporting in the history of English-language news media?

And at this moment… Thinking of them.

Joe Parkinson @JoeWSJ Sep 12, 2025

Very cool to see our new book, SWAP, featured in @VanityFair.

Read all about it.

Joe Parkinson @JoeWSJ Sep 5, 2025

@drewhinshaw and I sat down for an extended interview on @CBS about our new book, SWAP.

@MajorCBS kindly said: “Every page works. This reads like a thriller reads like a novel but it is journalistic reportorial throughout.”

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www.cbsnews.com Extended interview: Drew Hinshaw and Joe Parkinson on how U.S. and Russia negotiate prisoner swaps CBS News chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett speaks with Wall Street Journal reporters Drew Hinshaw and Joe Parkinson about their new book "SWAP: A Secret History of the New Cold War,"...