Laura Oliver

Freelance contributor

Laura Oliver is a freelance journalist based in the UK. She has written for the Guardian, BBC, The Week and more. She is a visiting lecturer in online journalism at City, University of London, and works as an audience strategy consultant for newsrooms. You can find her work here.

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“Most newsrooms pull women down with work rather than lifting them up”

Mabinty Magdalene Kamara, editor of Sierra Leone’s ‘Politico’, reflects on the obstacles holding other women back.

This Indian news site is training young women in digital journalism to reach remote audiences

“It’s our turn to speak and tell the stories,” says Priya Thuvassery, executive producer at Chambal Media and leader of the project.

Flying solo as a journalist creator in the Global South

Reporters from India, Brazil and Nigeria share what they've learned.

How a respected editor created an independent news site in Venezuela

“We are devoted to working for the people,” says Luz Mely Reyes, founder of ‘Efecto Cocuyo’.

The fight for facts in the Global South: how four projects are building a new model

“To increase the cost of lying, we need millions to worry about it, not just journalists and academics,” says Laura Zommer from Argentinian news site ‘Chequeado’.

How an Asian business site attracted 30,000 subscribers by publishing one story a day

“Choosing what not to do is as important as choosing what to do”, says 'The Ken''s co-founder and CEO Rohin Dharmakumar.

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Así han apostado por membresías los medios de Iberoamérica y esto han aprendido

Medios de Colombia, Brasil y México han impulsado este modelo durante la crisis del coronavirus. Aquí algunos de sus aprendizajes.

How mission-driven news sites are betting on reader revenue in Latin America

News outlets in Colombia, Brazil and Mexico share what they’ve learned from building their membership models in the midst of a pandemic.

This fact-checked database helps journalists track how Nigeria tackles maternal mortality

“We knew this was an endemic problem but a lot of reporting stopped there,” says journalist Ashley Okwuosa, co-founder of Maternal Figures

How an experienced team of editors trains the next Mexican investigative journalists

“We become their team. We help them narrow down their story and get it published," says Alejandra Xanic, General Editor of Quinto Elemento.

How a group of Nigerian journalists are digitising thousands of old newspapers

“This archive would mean context and not writing in a vacuum,” says Fu’ad Lawal, who’s leading the race to bring 18,627 days of print online

“The future of journalism is small, intimate and personal”

Tanmoy Goswami was the world’s first sanity correspondent. Now he’s creating a platform to highlight mental health issues in the Global South.