He was Shanghai bureau chief for Agence France Presse from 2008-2011 and before that was a correspondent and editor for The Associated Press in Britain, Singapore and Nigeria. He began reporting for newswires for Reuters in Nigeria. He has worked for the Toronto Star and the Toronto Sun and has written for The Independent, The Evening Standard and The Mail on Sunday. Doran received an honourable mention from the Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism in 2002 and The Columbia Journalism Review cited a series of his AP dispatches about Nigerian village women occupying an oil terminal as a model for “The Dream Newspaper.” D'Arcy Doran on twitter