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'Finances impact everything': Helping the media understand the reality of poverty
Melanie Lock, a member of the Grassroots Poverty Action Group, speaks about how 'experts by experience' can help writers and researchers better…
Jul 31
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Jem Bartholomew
'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
Jul 17
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Jem Bartholomew
June 2024
'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
Jun 19
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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
Jun 12
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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'
Jun 5
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Jem Bartholomew
May 2024
'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?
May 29
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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
May 22
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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
May 15
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Jem Bartholomew
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