Niall Christie
TFN (Third Force News)Niall Christie is a Scottish journalist with a strong focus on politics, social justice, and the third sector. He currently writes for Third Force News (TFN), Scotland’s only dedicated media outlet for charities and voluntary organisations in Scotland. While working for local newspapers he was nominated for Scotland’s Young Journalist of the Year, and has gone on to write and report for national news outlets across the UK. He joined TFN in 2022, working to highlight the challenges facing third sector organisations in Scotland and beyond. Originally from Dundee, he now lives in Glasgow with his wife and son.
His shortlisted pieces are:
- Council broke law 800 times when housing homeless as Taylor Swift and Fringe swept Edinburgh
- Cruel Summer: exclusive – Edinburgh’s homeless forced from hotels as Taylor Swift comes to town
- “Brutal cycle”: no social housing available in whole of Edinburgh as crisis worsens
We were impressed by this expose of the impact of Taylor Swift’s world tour on people in temporary accommodation in Scotland. The journalists were swift to spot the consequences of evictions for hundreds of families and persisted with the story to hold the authorities accountable for breaking the law.
– Robert Booth, Judge, The Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness 2025
