A Frame on Life

Category: journalism

  • Being a disabled journalist is lonely: Let’s change that together

    Being a disabled journalist is lonely: Let’s change that together

    Image caption: Isabelle Ulfsdotter and Áine Kelly-Costello presenting at Gothenburg University. Photo/Patrick Jowett Update: response from book launch organisers Hostwriter follows this post. One night in Hamburg As I clambered up the wobbly boat stairs, across a connecting bridge and down similar, steep steps, a blurry montage of words followed me: hierarchy, subaltern, inclusion, power,…

  • Here’s what I learned when the muckrakers united

    Here’s what I learned when the muckrakers united

    I stood or sat, phone in hand note-taking or exchanging contact info, in a sea of reporters listening to each other. I perched on cramped benches, sometimes on the floor, a chair if I was more punctual and decisive than usual about session selection.   There we were, 1700 investigative journalists, academics, non-profit directors, students,…

  • Looking for hope? Reflections from a climate campaigner and journalist

    Looking for hope? Reflections from a climate campaigner and journalist

    Tipping Points of Hypocrisy   As about four million strikers took to the streets on Friday, a part of me felt relief. Here comes, surely, some kind of human-powered tipping point for climate action. It was a similar part to the one that felt elated and hopeful when Auckland University divested from fossil fuels in…