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Paisley Dodds is the former London bureau chief for The Associated Press. She still writes for the AP about terrorism, security and intelligence but is a current member of AP's international investigations team based in London.
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Life and career
Dodds is a native of Painesville, Ohio. She has a master's degree in International Relations from Cambridge University in England and a bachelor's in Communications from John Carroll University in Ohio.
She joined the AP in 1994 to cover the South African elections that brought Nelson Mandela to power. After nearly three years covering post-Apartheid South Africa, she worked for the AP in Miami, Little Rock and Boston before joining the international desk in New York. In 2001, she was promoted to Caribbean News Editor in San Juan, Puerto Rico. From 2001 to 2005, she directed coverage from 30 countries in the Caribbean and Latin America. Her primary and most frequent reporting assignments included Haiti and Guantanamo Bay; she broke several investigative pieces about abuse in the U.S. prison camp. In 2005, she was named London Bureau Chief, a role she held until late 2016 when she was named a London-based correspondent with security and intelligence matters as her beat. She is currently on AP's International Investigations Team. Other assignments have included Afghanistan, Pakistan and Israel.
She is the recipient of the George Polk award for her foreign reporting in Haiti that covered numerous disasters, conflict and the rebellion that ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. She also won the Joseph L. Brechner Freedom of Information Award for her work in Guantanamo, the Enterprise Reporting Award from the AP Managing Editors Association, an honourable mention from the Overseas Press Club of America and the Hugh Hefner First Amendment Award for her investigative reporting at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo.