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Ben Doherty is a correspondent, photographer, and video journalist.

He holds a Masters of International Law and International Relations (University of New South Wales) and has been a Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford (2015). Thrice winner of Walkley Awards, he has been immigration and Asia-Pacific correspondent for The Guardian, Southeast Asia correspondent for The Guardian, and South Asia correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

In May 2018, he published Nagaland, 'a novel inspired by a true story' (according to the front-cover blurb) set among people living in the far north-east of India. Publishers Wild Dingo Press describes it as an 'extraordinarily powerful and evocative literary work that traverses new ground in the hinterland between biography and mythology'.