Joe Parkinson

World Investigations Chief, The Wall Street Journal. Author of SWAP, A Secret History of the New Cold War & BRING BACK OUR GIRLS.

[Joe Parkinson @JoeWSJ]

In 2017, @drewhinshaw & I entered a Nigerian cabinet minister’s office to ask why Boko Haram was ascendent. “Because we gave them millions of euros for the Chibok girls!” he said with a nervous chuckle

It was a slip of a tongue that set us on a journey

https://t.co/SGcgqe6idE

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

This belongs to all of us.

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

We did it, together.

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

The Arsenal. Your Premier League champions.

[drew hinshaw @drewhinshaw]

Quite honored to read this lovely review of 'SWAP,' a history of prisoner trading with Putin's Russia, by @JoeWSJ & I, which Foreign Affairs calls "a virtuoso work of investigative journalism." 🙏

[drew hinshaw @drewhinshaw]

A very nice honor to see that the Overseas Press Club has named "SWAP" – my account of how the U.S. and Putin started trading prisoners, with @JoeWSJ – a citation winner for best non-fiction book on international affairs. Thank you to the @opcofamerica.

[Joe Parkinson @JoeWSJ]

I was lucky enough to meet John at the Rixos hotel in Tripoli while NATO was bombing Gaddafi’s nearby compound. He was very kind and encouraging—and also the only foreign correspondent I’ve met who insisted on bringing a printer to a war zone…

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

Had the great good fortune to meet him in Afghanistan and Iraq back in the day. He was a raconteur of the first order. During one especially liquid dinner in Baghdad in 2002 when Saddam was still in charge, he told the story of being suspended for a month during Bosnia war. (1)

[Joe Parkinson @JoeWSJ]

Shaking my head in disbelief and sorrow at the number of stellar foreign correspondents laid off by the Post today.

Surely the biggest single cull of foreign reporting in the history of English-language news media?

And at this moment… Thinking of them.

[Jason Kint @jason_kint]

So many mind blowing sentences in this just incredible Wall Street Journal report. Starting here, “Witkoff, who hasn’t traveled to Ukraine this year, is set to visit Russia for the sixth time next week and will again meet Putin. He insisted he isn’t playing favorites.” /1

[Catherine Belton @CatherineBelton]

So good to finally get my autumn reading in order. The first [belatedly] @drewhinshaw @JoeWSJ's gripping dive into the deep cynicism of Kremlin hostage-taking; the second what promises to be a stunning debut by @juliaioffe already up for a national book award, out in UK Oct 23.

[drew hinshaw @drewhinshaw]

Delighted that one month after our release, SWAP by @JoeWSJ & I is still Amazon's bestselling book on Russia. It's the story of how the US fell into a game of trading prisoners with Vladimir Putin, a cycle that continues until today. A link for nonamazon shoppers➡️ https://t.co/j8JA6KwdMm.

[drew hinshaw @drewhinshaw]

Very honored to share this essay in The Atlantic by @JoeWSJ & I, on how Trump jumped into the game of trading prisoners. Adapted from the epilogue of "Swap," an inside-the-room history of our new Cold War.

[drew hinshaw @drewhinshaw]

A real big pleasure speaking w/the great @SpyTalker & @misikoff about our new book SWAP
...which they so graciously called "an extraordinarily fascinating book about secret hostage diplomacy between the U.S. and Russia... one fascinating spy story after another." [from 13:52...]

[Joe Parkinson @JoeWSJ]

Very cool to see our new book, SWAP, featured in @VanityFair.

Read all about it.

[Joe Parkinson @JoeWSJ]

@drewhinshaw and I sat down for an extended interview on @CBS about our new book, SWAP.

@MajorCBS kindly said: “Every page works. This reads like a thriller reads like a novel but it is journalistic reportorial throughout.”

https://t.co/4v4Lw7grjL

[John W. Miller @jwmjournalist]

Finished SWAP by @drewhinshaw and @JoeWSJ last night. From the weird, dark corners of Putin’s Russia to the raw machinery of U.S. power, it’s a geopolitical masterpiece, one of those rare books that tells you how the world *really* works. A must-read.

[Joe Parkinson @JoeWSJ]

@bulamabukarti Congrats, Bulama.

[Joe Parkinson @JoeWSJ]

@NikkiJMarks @drewhinshaw Thank you so much Nikki

[Joe Parkinson @JoeWSJ]

SWAP is so unputdownable it will make you miss your morning alarm!

Don’t take it from us folks, take it from the director of BBC News.

[Nikki Marks @NikkiJMarks]

I’d thank ⁦@drewhinshaw⁩ & ⁦@JoeWSJ⁩ for the un-putdownable, fascinating “Swap” - if only it hadn’t made the 1.35am alarm these past few days so much harder. Don’t read this book at bedtime if you need your Zzzs before work! But read it, definitely read it.

[Joe Parkinson @JoeWSJ]

A typically smart and anecdote-infused review of SWAP by Russian intelligence experts @AndreiSoldatov & @irinaborogan -- "a rare glimpse into what Russian diplomacy actually looks like on the inside."

https://t.co/KPGWYCwzkk

[Andrei Soldatov @AndreiSoldatov]

For years, Moscow's diplomats were met with respect in the West. SWAP: A Secret History of the New Cold War by @drewhinshaw and @JoeWSJ offers a rare glimpse into what Russian diplomacy actually looks like on the inside.
@irinaborogan and me in @cepa https://t.co/43AkoHNWDe