By The Irish writer on breaking into journalism, writing her debut novel, and the first-person essay boom. With a book to publish, a job to hold down, and an imminent trip abroad, Megan Nolan is very busy these days. Despite this, the writer arrives 15 minutes early to our interview. We
By What Apple News is hiding about its notifications
Beneath the user-friendly surface, there is a decaying impartiality at the core of Apple News Just three days before the 2019 general election, Apple News sent out a push notification linking to three video highlights of the Conservative campaign; Boris Johnson pocketing a reporter’s phone, Matt Hancock being heckled by activists
By Comment: Christine Keeler’s legacy to the #MeToo movement
The BBC’s recent adaptation of The Trial of Christine Keeler shows how little has changed in the media’s treatment of women Nearly 60 years after the Profumo Affair, the inferno surrounding Christine Keeler has refused to die down. For over half a century she has remained the “devastating, leggy
By A coffee with: travel editor Nicola Trup
The associate editor of National Geographic Traveller UK on her time at City and the art of travel writing. With the coronavirus situation, how are you handling travel pieces at NatGeoTraveller – given that the majority of the world is now threatened by the outbreak? It’s a tricky one because
By Coronavirus: is breaking news breaking us?
As more and more stories about COVID-19 continue to fill our news feeds, many of us are dismayed – yet unable to look away There has been a slew of articles written about the coronavirus since the beginning of this year; just over 1.4m so far and rising by
By How are local newspapers making money?
Local newspapers have suffered a turbulent decade with dozens folding every year. Hyperlocal sites are filling this news void, but how are they making money? More than 200 local papers shut down across the UK between 2005 and 2018, according to a report. This collapse in local accountability has resulted
By An idiot’s guide to data journalism
You don’t need to be a maths whiz to be a data journalist, nor do you have to be a tech wizard. Data comes in all shapes and sizes, and it isn’t always numbers So, you’re an idiot when it comes to data journalism. Perhaps you didn’t enter the media
By A coffee with: Sunday Times Style assistant editor Fleur Britten
Creator of the magazine’s ‘What She Said’ column and author of five books on her path to success and seizing opportunities. When Fleur Britten was six years old, her grandma wrote in her diary that she believed her granddaughter would be a writer one day. Fast forward 39 years, and Britten
By A coffee with: travel editor Catherine Fairweather
The former travel editor of Porter Magazine and Harper’s Bazaar on the changing world of journalism and the art of a travel piece. As a young woman in Rome, Catherine Fairweather wrote a piece about living in the Villa Wolkonsky, the official residence of the British Ambassador to Italy, a
By TikTok: journalism’s new frontier
Move over Twitter, TikTok is the new kid on the block Social media is toxic. From Twitter to Facebook, online discourse is at an all-time low with trolling, misinformation, and culture wars dictating the news cycle. Journalists are now in the firing line as a result. News outlets must
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