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Freya Petersen

Breaking News and Social Media Editor

Freya Petersen is Breaking News and Social Media Editor at GlobalPost. Petersen has worked as a journalist in Asia, Europe and the United States. Before joining GlobalPost, she lived for four years in Paris, France, working as a reporter and editor for the broadcaster France 24 and the International Herald Tribune (New York Times Co.). She began her career in Sydney, Australia, as a reporter and chief of staff at the country's biggest selling metropolitan broadsheet, The Sydney Morning Herald. She has written and produced Web video reports for The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, London Telegraph, South China Morning Post and Sydney Morning Herald.