Populist leaders are working to Trump’s playbook: pick a fight with the press, get the public on side and avoid scrutiny by broadcasting direct to the nation. With some global leaders now routinely ...
Polly Curtis
Polly Curtis is an Editor and Partner at Tortoise, a UK-based digital “slow-news” journalism project running under a membership model. Previously, she was Editor-in-Chief at HuffPost UK, where she built an editorial team and implemented a new strategy to navigate a post-Facebook age. Immediately prior to joining HuffPost, Polly was director of media for British Red Cross during a time that included the organisation’s largest emergency response in decades, as they operationalised after the Manchester bombing, London Bridge and Finsbury Park attacks and the fire at Grenfell Tower. For most of her career she was at The Guardian, most recently as digital editor, where she led digital plans for the Scottish referendum, the EU referendum and the 2015 election as well as the live coverage of some of the biggest breaking stories in recent times. She has a background as a news editor and reporter, having served as the Guardian’s deputy national editor, Whitehall correspondent, education editor and health correspondent.
Engaged journalism: how do we create news with the audience we have, and with the audiences we have yet to reach?
Journalists can no longer stay at the top of the mountain, broadcasting down the news they choose to a passive audience. We know we must work in the midst of our audience and work with and for the pub...
In the 20th century media built authority by standing on top of a pedestal and talking down to its audience. Today media and journalists build authority by stepping down from that pedestal and being p...
There’s been a low level hum in the industry for a long time about the need to shift the culture of newsrooms, and it’s getting a lot louder. There are many pain points: inter-generational tension...
As states and corporations increasingly load decision-making onto artificial intelligence technologies and algorithms, how can we as journalists keep them in check? How do you hold an algorithm to acc...
There have been countless articles and panel discussions of “fake news” in the past year. But does the reality match the hype? And has all this talk drowned out the important work of calling out f...
Large, global media companies are pursuing new audiences in a more localised way, tailoring offerings for different territories. How local should these global players go. Are these offerings disruptiv...
