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#journalism

Sadat is Naru, a woman effectively separated from her creep of a husband, burdened with sole charge of their son as well as being the only earner. She is a camera operator at a Kabul TV station; she has liberated friends with western attitudes one cheerfully gives her a vibrator as a present. Naru is landed with working on sappy, soft-centred shows problem-page magazine programmes where women are patronised by sexist dopes.

Management sims are all about decisions; in News Tower, my first decision was the name of my newspaper. This being Nieman Lab, I decided to call my newspaper The Experiment. Some things about the game are all too familiar to anyone who's paid any attention to the state of journalism lately. When you first start the game, the paper is struggling: You have a few options for getting out of the hole.

Laura and Todd, both journalists, had been out for an evening of drinks with colleagues following a particularly horrific day covering the news. Gradually, the herd had thinned out until it was just the two of them, alone at the bar near 3 a.m. with a sudden weight of sexual tension between them. They'd worked together for a couple of years at this point, and each had emerged from a relationship in their early 30s to be newly single.

Jeanne Carstensen is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Foreign Policy, The World, The Nation, Salon, Nautilus, and The Global Post, among other outlets. She previously served as managing editor of Salon and The Bay Citizen, which produced the Bay Area pages of The New York Times. Her book, A Greek Tragedy: One Day, A Deadly Shipwreck, and the Human Cost of the Refugee Crisis, was published by Simon & Schuster/One Signal Publishers in March 2025.

These days, American politics is a highly charged and dramatic landscape - and nowhere more so than in the White House press room, which can, on occasion, feel like part reality show, part bear pit. Rarely a day goes by where a press room moment doesn't go viral, for any number of reasons. And, as RTÉ's new Washington correspondent, Galwegian Jackie Fox cannot wait to immerse herself in the belly of the beast.

Two journalists were arrested in connection with their coverage of a protest. Two residents were shot and killed while documenting the actions of ICE agents in Minneapolis. And the list goes on. I spoke to Siobhan Flowers , a licensed therapist and a former television reporter, to help journalists make sense of their emotions and feelings around what's happening in the industry. To start, Flowers said, don't gaslight yourself if you are feeling more depressed about work or the stories you're covering.

That kind of pocket change can buy you a newspaper. And not just any newspaper, but a world-class paper with a wall full of Pulitzers (I remember emerging from the elevator and marveling at it as a summer intern) and decades of experience holding power to account. Alternatively, $250 million can buy half a superyacht. A yacht is a very big boat.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.

St. Bride's, situated in an alley just off Fleet Street, is known as the journalists' church. Having weathered not a few disastersthe Great Fire of London, in 1666, the Luftwaffe in 1940it now advertises itself as A Space for Silence, offering an hour of contemplation each weekday afternoon, yards from the world's most famous newspaper street. On a recent rain-soaked day, I arrived to find only one umbrella in the porch bucket and a church filled with lit candles and the chill of old sermons.

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From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (January 28, 2026) - Poynter, a global leader in journalism, is pleased to welcome six new members to its National Advisory Board. The board brings together experienced leaders who offer strategic insight and fresh perspectives to support Poynter's mission of strengthening journalism in service to democracy, public trust and truth. The new members are: Katie den Daas, senior vice president of global newsgathering, ABC News Julie Pace, senior vice president and executive editor of The Associated Press Hari Sreenivasan, journalist and a host of "Amanpour and Company" Bala Sundaramoorthy, president and chief operating officer of Times Publishing Company Wendi C. Thomas, f ounder and investigative editor of MLK50: Justice Through Journalism Jessica Yellin, founder of News Not Noise and former White House correspondent

The chart showed the vote totals over time for Wisconsin. At first glance, it appeared that Joe Biden was lagging far behind Donald Trump and then suddenly surged ahead to a tie. Almost immediately, people online seized on the image, claiming that all those Biden votes were actually evidence of fraud. In fact, it was nothing of the sort, and both Trump and Biden's votes had increased - the result of a large batch of absentee and mail ballots being counted all at once.

Jackie is a multimedia journalist with RTÉ News and has reported extensively on US politics and global affairs, including covering the 2024 US Presidential Election in Washington DC. She has worked as a journalist for RTÉ for 14 years, reporting on a range of foreign, national and regional news stories. She has reported for RTÉ from countries including Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, and Seychelles on issues surrounding human rights and climate change.