Miranda Dunne

Miranda Dunne

Miranda Dunne

Multimedia Journalist

NCTJ Trained journalist with diverse multimedia skills

Experience working in national newsrooms (broadcast and print)

Video, data journalism and features with in-depth reporting

Skilled in Premiere Pro, InDesign, sub-editing, data visualisations

Full CV available on request. Please contact on Twitter or LinkedIn

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My Latest Work

The Telegraph •

How to build strong bones if you don’t eat meat

If you are thinking of switching to a plant-based diet for the sake of your health, it might not be as simple as you’d hoped. A new study has found that women on a vegetarian diet are more likely to fracture their hips.

Researchers from the University of Leeds looked at 26,318 women between the ages of 35 and 69 years and found that, by a third, vegetarians had a greater risk of hip fracture than meat-eaters and pescatarians. The findings are the latest to support numerous studies suggesting th
Kingston Courier •

"Nothing is the same": Ukrainians watch war unfold from London –

When Marjana Miklos woke up in her home in London to discover that Vladimir Putin had launched a full-scale invasion of her home country, her main feeling, like so many other Ukrainians watching events unfold overseas, was shock.

Russia’s invasion, under Putin’s guise of a ‘special military operation’ begun on February 24 2022.

Miklos, a receptionist who has been settled in the UK for six years, said she did not know what to do other than to start calling her other Ukrainian friends in London.
Kingston Courier •

How deepfakes and altered image abuse are a digital threat for women

Ten years ago, when 18-year-old Australian law student Noelle Martin reverse image searched herself out of pure curiosity, nothing could have prepared her for the nauseating results that Google would empty before her.

Scores of pornographic images of her stretched on the screen before her, images she had never consented to being shared online. In fact, she had never consented to them being taken at all. Because they hadn’t been taken: they had been faked. Anonymous individual(s) had stolen Mart
Kingston Courier •

VIDEO: Kingston's award-shortlisted food-hunger project delivers hundreds of recipe kits –

The BRITE Box project, founded by Voices of Hope, delivers weekly recipe meal kits to families across Kingston, Richmond and Southwark and delivered 257 boxes in its first packaging session of 2022.

The project now reaches at least 450 families per week and has delivered over 8,000 boxes altogether. The boxes include ingredients and a printed recipe guide with photos illustrating how to cook a healthy meal. The project was shortlisted for Start up of the Year in the Kingston Borough Business Aw
Kingston Courier •

Bleak Picture" Painted By Violence Against Women Snapshot Report

The End Violence Against Women coalition (EVAW) has released a report on violence against women and girls in the UK for 2021-22, with its director describing the data as “bleak”.

The report includes outlining the number of women killed in cases where a man is the primary suspect, and figures on domestic abuse crimes recorded by the police.

Data from Refuge was included, which suggested that nearly a fifth of women in the UK experienced image-based sexual abuse from 2021-2022, with additional d
Kingston Courier •

Music for Mental Health: Local artists perform in Kingston in aid of Mind charity –

Local charity Mind in Kingston hosted a music stall on Sunday at Kingston Ancient Market Place, part of a fortnight of events to mark World Mental Health Day 2021.

New Malden singer-songwriter Beth Jakob performed at the stall. Jakob has previously fundraised for Mind, having co-founded Emfest, an events company that hosts live music to raise money for the charity. The 2021 event, held at The Royal Oak, New Malden, raised over £14,000 for Mind in Kingston.

“We started EmFest around six years a
Kingston Courier •

Gender equality - Kingston Union launches boycott of 'tick box' gender equality charter –

Kingston’s branch of the University and College Union, Kingston (Kingston UCU) has asked its members to boycott the Athena SWAN charter, a framework used to support gender equality in higher education, until the union’s demands to Kingston University on gender equality are fulfilled.

Under the framework, universities can apply for Athena SWAN awards in recognition of their gender equality achievements. At Kingston University, at least three departments currently hold Bronze Awards, including wi

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