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'Anger points me in a direction': Photographer Kirsty Mackay on capturing the cost of living crisis
The documentary photographer speaks about her latest exhibition, The Magic Money Tree
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Jem Bartholomew
'We can’t be afraid of dreaming': A national food bank coordinator on why poverty isn't higher up the UK election agenda
Sabine Goodwin talks about how the media has handled the 'cost of living crisis,' and why poverty isn't a focus of the UK election campaign
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Jem Bartholomew
‘Seeing myself from another angle’: A conversation between reporter and source
I met Lizzie Skeaping in 2022, when she was fighting her eviction, and she became a core subject in my reporting. A year on, we talk about it
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Jem Bartholomew
'No outside ideology': Alissa Quart on poverty, the American dream, and stretching nonfiction's limits
The writer and Economic Hardship Reporting Project's executive director talks about her quest to make journalism less individualist, 'more choral'
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Jem Bartholomew
'Distant and weird': The Guardian's John Harris on political journalism's failures and Britain's future
Harris's Anywhere But Westminster series foresaw the wave of discontentment that gave us Brexit and Trump. What does he see for the future?
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Jem Bartholomew
'Always feels fraught': Sarah Stillman on the strangeness of writing about other people's lives
Sarah Stillman's work in the New Yorker captures the emotional core of being trapped by colossal structural forces
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Jem Bartholomew
We need to talk about how the media covers poverty
Changing my mind about Joan Didion, previewing the newsletter's first season, plus a discussion on why analyzing media coverage of poverty is important
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Jem Bartholomew
Conversations on Poverty
Conversations on Poverty
A newsletter about how the media covers poverty — and the urgent task of doing better — featuring conversations with leading writers and thinkers.

Conversations on Poverty

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