Journalist, Editor & Researcher

I’m Maxim Edwards, journalist, editor, translator and researcher. You can get in touch with me on the contact page of this website.

My job as an editor is to choose your words carefully. To that end, I’ve spent over a decade in editorial roles across independent media, including openDemocracy, OCCRP, Global Voices and Bellingcat. These days I’m a government and economy editor at Bloomberg News based in Warsaw.

My passions are international relations, reporting, languages, history and literature. My work focuses on European policy, nationalism, migration, minorities, memory politics, labour and digital rights, with a strong but not exclusive focus on the continent’s eastern half. 

My writing can be found in The Atlantic, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Foreign Policy and the London Review of Books among other publications.

I have hostile environment training and have reported from 15 countries on an eclectic mix of topics, from the companies building Europe’s border fences to Iraqi refugees in the Caucasus and far-right extremism in Germany. I’ve also worked at the cutting edge of new OSINT reporting methods.

Alongside journalistic work, I’ve edited policy and academic papers for a number of clients. I’ve also contributed research to and qualitative analysis for datasets on armed conflict. I’ve provided consultancy and analysis for NGOs on human rights and politics in Eastern Europe and written a book chapter about the politics of Moldova. I’ve also translated essays, op-eds and investigative journalism from Russian to English.

Furthermore, I’m a proud network member and former board member N-Ost, the Berlin-based NGO promoting cross-border journalism.

I can sometimes be found in the field, behind a desk more often than I’d like, and sporadically on Mastodon and LinkedIn.