Edd Dracott

Edd Dracott is the Social Media and Real Life editor at PA Media, leading a team who use online searching skills to cover breaking news, viral content and human interest exclusives. In this role, Edd has covered the war in Ukraine and the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, interviewing people on the ground and verifying information, while he has also reported for PA at events such as Glastonbury Festival on a number of occasions, where he has interviewed Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe amongst others. Edd is particularly interested in finding human stories from major news headlines, positive stories for PA's Uplifting feed and unique exclusives about remarkable people - on topics including crime, health, money saving and quirkiness - for the Real Life service. His career began with PA Training and the South London Press in 2016, before he worked on the Snap.PA and Viral desks at PA covering topics for a younger audience. He then joined the Social Media team before becoming the editor on that desk in 2021, then also became the editor for Real Life in 2022.