Suyin Haynes

Overview

Suyin Haynes is a freelance journalist, lecturer and media consultant focused on storytelling at the intersections of identity, culture and underrepresented communities. 

She started her career at TIME magazine, first as an Audience Editor in the Hong Kong bureau, then as a Senior Reporter covering gender, culture and underrepresented communities from the London bureau. Suyin's coverage at TIME included the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, experiences of persecution under the Myanmar coup, and LGBTQ+ rights in central and eastern Europe. She has written two cover stories for TIME — both involving train travel across Europe with Greta Thunberg. From 2021-2023, she was Head of Editorial at gal-dem, the award-winning media company committed to sharing the perspectives of people of colour from marginalised genders. 

As a freelance journalist, Suyin's writing and reporting covers the intersections of identity, culture and underrepresented communities, and her work has been published in Al Jazeera, CNN, the Guardian, openDemocracy, Jacobin, ELLE and more. As a media consultant, she specialises in working with values-driven organisations on communications, campaigns and storytelling. She is the creator of Ginkgo Leaves, a newsletter inspired by the ginkgo tree, and is the co-founder of fragments, a newsletter exploring sibling grief in all its forms. Suyin is also a published short fiction story writer, with stories appearing in anthologies published by TOKEN magazine and The Plaza Prizes.

Suyin joined City as a Visiting Lecturer in 2023 on the MA Magazine programme. In 2024, she became a part time Lecturer, specialising in magazine journalism across the BA and MA programmes. She is currently working towards a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice at City, and is also a part time MA student at SOAS, working towards her postgraduate degree in South East and Pacific Asian Studies.