Jeff Maysh

Jeff Maysh (born March 30, 1982, Nassau, Bahamas) is a British writer, author and journalist based in Hollywood, California. He writes human interest and investigative articles for publications including The BBC News Magazine, The Guardian, Playboy, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, The New York Post and The Verge. The writer has won numerous British journalism awards.[1][2]

Magazine journalism

Jeff Maysh started his career at iconic British men's magazine Loaded where he became known for writing features involving danger and foreign travel. He was the magazine's longest serving staff writer before leaving the UK in October 2010.[3]

His long form story about Steve Davies, a mythical soccer fan who scored a goal for West Ham United, was listed in the notable section of 'Best American Sports Writing 2014', and voted number one in a poll of 'greatest ever soccer stories'.[4] The article was also included in 'Best Football Writing 2013' (USA),[5] and in the Dutch broadsheet NRC Handelsblad’s 'Five Best Long Reads of 2013',[6] and in The New Zealand Herald’s 'Best Sporting Long Reads of 2013.'[7]

As a correspondent for the BBC, Maysh became the first journalist to enter the notorious Korydallos prison, near Athens.[8] His profile of prisoner Vassilis Paleokostas, a Greek bank robber who escaped from the prison twice in a helicopter, went viral on the BBC News Magazine, on September 25, 2014.[9]

In May, 2015, Paramount Pictures acquired the movie rights to Jeff Maysh’s story The Wedding Sting. According to a report in Variety,[10] bidding was ‘competitive’ among Hollywood studios for the true account of a rural Michigan police department that trapped drug dealers with a fake wedding. The story was first published in the Atlantic.

Books

Jeff Maysh’s first book was published in November, 2007, Brown Bread Fred is a ghost-written autobiography of London bank robber Freddie Foreman.

External links

References

  1. ↑ Magculture, "Magazine Design Awards" Oct. 27, 2006.
  2. ↑ Press Gazette, "PPA Awards 2010 shortlist revealed" Apr. 27, 2010.
  3. ↑ Features Exec, "Rogue Editor Jeff Maysh Leaves Loaded" Oct. 10, 2010.
  4. ↑ Longform.org, "Your all-time favorite soccer article" Oct. 2, 2014.
  5. ↑ A Football Report, "Best Football Writing 2013" Jan. 4, 2014.,
  6. ↑ NRC, "Best of the Web awards: the five best long reads of 2013." Dec. 23, 2013.
  7. ↑ New Zealand Herald, "Best Sporting Long Reads of 2013" Jan. 2, 2014.,
  8. ↑ Greek Reporter, Hollywood for Paleokostas
  9. ↑ Twitter, "Readers spent 2.3 million minutes on The Uncatchable @BBCNewsMagazine " Sep. 26, 2014.,
  10. ↑ Variety, "Paramount lands Atlantic Article on Flint Wedding Sting" May. 12, 2015.
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