Author, journalist, photographer, editor
I have written extensively for publications in the UK and worldwide, including most UK national newspapers and many magazines, and have written for various corporate clients. I have also edited publications, researched television shows and written a number of books. My photography has appeared in a number of publications, and films broadcast also, and I have appeared on a number of radio and television programmes.
UK NATIONAL NEWSPAPERS Articles published in The Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, Observer, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, Financial Times, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Independent, Independent on Sunday, Daily Express, Sunday Express, Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, Daily Star, Sunday Correspondent, Today, The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday, The Herald
UK REGIONAL NEWSPAPERS Articles for the Evening Standard (London), Metro, the Aberdeen Press and Journal, Daily News
US NEWSPAPERS The New York Times
MAGAZINES Articles published in The New Statesman, The Spectator, Readers’ Digest, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Tatler, GQ, House and Garden, Travel Africa, Prima, Screen International, N Magazine (Norwegian Airlines), WizzAir Magazine, Midweek, Ms London, Homes Overseas, A Place in the Sun, Coast, The Week, Company, Woman’s Weekly, BUPA 37 Degrees, Junior, Jetaway, Bluewings, Germanwings, Nasair, Morning Calm, P&O Cruises Pacific magazine, B.there!, Voyager, easyJet Traveller, Zing magazine, RAF News, Self Build Homes, Select Traveller, France, Living France, Italia, Completely London, London Homes and Property Magazine, The Resident, Greenwich Visitor, Selling Travel, Black + Green Magazine, Emirates Portfolio magazine and others
WEBSITES LoveExpoloring, Readers’ Digest, High50.com, WorldTravelGuide, Britain’sFinest, SimplyLuxuryHolidays, SimonSeeks, Traverati, student.com, gulfnews.com, travelnews.ch
BOOKS Cameroon (Bradt), London for Free (Pan), Fun for a Fiver in London (Pan), Fun for a Fiver in Amsterdam (Pan), Rough Guide to Family Fun in Ireland (Rough Guides), Buying a Property Abroad (Cadogan), Retiring Abroad (Cadogan), Buying a Property in Spain (Foulsham), London’s Top 50 Free Museums (Antelope Press).
COLUMNS ETC Past column in the Sunday Times travel section, ‘Free Time’, weekly English dispatches for Swiss travel website www.travelnews.ch
BLOGGING londonzurich.com was website written by travel journalists Ben West and Sonja Huesler, and as well as featuring travel tips, it highlighted many of the culture clashes between the UK and Switzerland. In 2015 it was included in Globesession magazine’s top ten list of Swiss travel blogs.
CORPORATE/COPYWRITING/RESEARCH Corporate clients have included Mercedes Benz, Credit Suisse, Sutton Young, Spracht Weberei (Switzerland), Banda Property, Bezier, CBS Outdoor, King’s Cross, BUPA, Norwich Union, the NHS. Research for television production companies.
SOME PUBLISHED EXAMPLES
Telegraph – Wild Los Angeles
Sunday Times – Crinan and Kilmartin
Mail on Sunday – Bargain Amsterdam
The Sun – The Faroes, end of the earth
Wanderlust – Armenia
Spectator – Should you take your children to visit Auschwitz?
Independent – Venice on the cheap
The Times – See the gorillas for under £1000
Daily Telegraph – German wine tour
Independent – Ebola
Financial Times – Kentish micropubs
The Guardian – North Cyprus
High50 – Dubai: hell on earth
Independent – Qatar
Travel Africa – Nyungwe Nziza, Rwanda
The Spectator – The Faroe Islands
Travelnews – How to keep holiday bookers
Independent – Denied boarding
Woman’s Weekly – The Norfolk Broads
Mail on Sunday – Leeds with Prunella Scales and co
Daily Mail – Barcelona: retracing my grandfather’s steps in the Spanish Civil War
travelnews.ch – How the shared economy is affecting the travel industry (in German)
Travel Africa – Cycling to Uganda’s stunning lakes
travelnews.ch – What’s gone wrong with easyJet?
travelnews.ch – Pop-up airlines
Mail on Sunday – The Norfolk Broads
Scotland on Sunday – Plastic fantastic
Travelnews – The return of travel guidebooks
Metro – Culinary Copenhagen
travelnews.ch – Brexit’s effect on the travel industry
travelnews.ch – Business travel is changing
travelnews.ch – The sharing economy explosion
Glasgow Herald – Tunisia
Travelnews – Rwanda, the new luxury destination
Independent on Sunday – Highland safaris
travelnews.ch – Destinations can become instant no-go areas
Harpers Bazaar – Rwanda
Travelnews – Dealing with bad travel reviews
Independent – Family holidays in Ireland
travelnews.ch – A new hotel concept
Woman’s Weekly – Northumberland
Travelnews – The reinvention of the British pub
travelnews.ch – How food put Scandinavia on the food map
Glasgow Herald – Hong Kong
travelnews.ch – Salmond books in as Captain Kirk (in German)
High50 – Gastropubs with rooms
travelnews.ch – Aircraft cabins of the future
Independent – Guernsey
travelnews.ch – London City Airport (in German)
Woman’s Weekly – Kent coast the best family holiday destination
travelnews.ch – Luxury hotels for pets
travelnews.ch – What’s new in the Middle East
travelnews.ch – Major new hotels
WEBSITE: www.benwest.biz
CONTACT: ben@benwest.biz