Career
He writes human interest and investigative articles for publications including The British Broadcasting Corporation News Magazine, The Guardian, Playboy, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, The New York Post and The Verge. Jeff Maysh started his career at iconic British men"s magazine Loaded where he became known for writing features involving danger and foreign traveling He was the magazine"s longest serving staff writer before leaving the United Kingdom in October 2010.
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".
The article was also included in "Best Football Writing 2013" (United States of America), and in the Dutch broadsheet National Research Council Handelsblad’s "Five Best Long Reads of 2013", and in The New Zealand Herald’s "Best Sporting Long Reads of 2013."
As a correspondent for the British Broadcasting Corporation, Maysh became the first journalist to enter the notorious Korydallos prison, near Athens. His profile of prisoner Vassilis Paleokostas, a Greek bank robber who escaped from the prison twice in a helicopter, went viral on the British Broadcasting Corporation News Magazine, on September 25, 2014.
In May, 2015, Paramount Pictures acquired the movie rights to Jeff Maysh’s story The Wedding Sting. According to a report in Variety, 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.