Steven MacKenzie
Steven has worked for The Big Issue for close to a decade, becoming Features Editor in 2016 and Deputy Editor in 2020. His articles focus on social issues and culture interviews. For the magazine he has spoken to a wide variety of celebrated figures ranging from Oscar-winning actors and directors, Olympic gold medallists, government ministers, multiple Nobel laureates (including the Dalai Lama) and several famous Davids, including Attenborough, Lynch and Hasselhoff. Steven has also reported on international news stories across five continents; from deep inside the Arctic Circle to the Korean demilitarised zone.
How street papers are dealing with the coronavirus
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Steven MacKenzie

How street papers are dealing with the coronavirus

Why you should feel hopeful about the high street
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Why you should feel hopeful about the high street

How the Breakfast Book Club is helping disadvantaged kids get into reading
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How the Breakfast Book Club is helping disadvantaged kids get into reading

The genre-defying film destroying clichés about homelessness
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The genre-defying film destroying clichés about homelessness

Jeri Ryan recalls fighting Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson on Star Trek: Voyager
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Jeri Ryan recalls fighting Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson on Star Trek: Voyager

What links Orwell, the Ukrainian famine, Animal Farm, fake news and Trump?
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What links Orwell, the Ukrainian famine, Animal Farm, fake news and Trump?

Joseph Mawle: seeing through Orwell's eyes changed my views
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Joseph Mawle: seeing through Orwell's eyes changed my views

We asked Europe frontman Joey Tempest if Brexit really is The Final Countdown
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We asked Europe frontman Joey Tempest if Brexit really is The Final Countdown

Rachel Parris: "I perform with a smile. Some like it, it drives others mad"
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Rachel Parris: "I perform with a smile. Some like it, it drives others mad"

How the World Happiness Report is measuring our wellbeing
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How the World Happiness Report is measuring our wellbeing

Street paper vendors in Washington DC look ahead to the US election
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Street paper vendors in Washington DC look ahead to the US election

The Masked Singer presenter Joel Dommett explains why we all need the show
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The Masked Singer presenter Joel Dommett explains why we all need the show

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