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Megan Nolan
By Clara Hernanz Lizarraga March 19, 2020March 18, 2020 Features

A coffee with: essayist Megan Nolan

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

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smartphone with Apple News open on top of white covered Cereal magazine
By Lydia Spencer-Elliott March 19, 2020March 18, 2020 Features

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

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Journalist walking assistance dog wearing reflector in BBC newsroom
By James Hacker March 18, 2020April 13, 2020 Multimedia

Disability in the newsroom

The Extend in News scheme is improving representation at the BBC by creating opportunities for journalists with visible or hidden disabilities. Interviews conducted by Maud Rowell, XCity Deputy Listings Editor and Accessibility Officer.

News Of The World front page
By Katie Jenkins March 18, 2020March 18, 2020 Features

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

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Nicola Trup in a temple in Kandy, Sri Lanka
By Shruti Khairnar March 18, 2020March 17, 2020 Features

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

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cartoon illustration of girl washing hands - royal blue background with yellow glow around hands
By Ramsha Vistro March 18, 2020March 18, 2020 Features

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

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Pile of printed newspapers
By Catalina Oblu March 17, 2020March 17, 2020 Features

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

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A data visualisation showing languages broken down into groups, with each list of languages emerging from a hand-drawn mouth
By Maud Rowell March 17, 2020March 17, 2020 Features

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

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The front cover of The Sunday Times
By Nora Popova March 17, 2020March 17, 2020 Features

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

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Catherine Fairweather stroking a wolf in Norway
By Tilda Coleman March 16, 2020March 16, 2020 Features

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

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By Patrick O'Donnell March 16, 2020March 16, 2020 Features

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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