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Senior Producer for The Journal podcast from @wsj + @Spotify . Co-host of The Trial of Crypto's Golden Boy. Proud member of @GimletUnion

New York, via London
Joined August 2010
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Rachel Humphreys
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London, where the streets are paved with positive lateral flow tests
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For the best part of a year, @felizysolo and I have collaborated on a @WSJ investigation that sought to answer a question: who is sending us scam texts like this one?
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On December 15th 2020 @Keir_Starmer wrote to Boris Johnson urging him to convene a COBRA meeting to discuss the worsening covid situation. That evening, the Prime Minister hosted a quiz with his staff instead.
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EXCLUSIVE: Boris Johnson accused of personally breaking Covid laws by hosting a Christmas quiz in No10 last year - and we've got pictures 👀
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Today in Parliament
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Big day for Kingston
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But Billy had been tricked. The job was fake. He had been recruited by a vast criminal network that trafficks people, enslaves them and forces them to send scam texts to people around the world.
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For 16 months he was trapped in this brutal slave system before he managed to escape. Only a few people make it out. Even fewer are able to tell their stories. We were fortunate that Billy was willing to share his.
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The answer led Feliz to Billy. He’s 41 years old and a tech worker from Ethiopia. In 2022 he took a job in Thailand with a fin tech company and was flown to a town near the border with Myanmar.
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You couldn't make it up: Daily Mail's publisher raises concerns about Brexit as "the majority of our newsprint is sourced from the EU"
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6 years
Yes I know England are through to the last 16 at the World Cup but can we please all actually be upstanding for Lilian from Preston who has gone to a wedding wearing a fascinator she made from a bath puff
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7 years
Alabama’s new Democrat Senator echoes the words of Jo Cox in his victory speech
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ABC News
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Doug Jones: "I have always believed that the people of Alabama had more in common than divided us. We have shown not just around the state of Alabama, but we have shown the country the way that we can be unified." #ALSen
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If you’re keen to try train travel but don’t have lots of time then I highly recommend London➡️San Sebastián! It takes a day and involves a double decker train, sea views and the opportunity to buy large amounts of cheese + wine in Paris. Thanks @seatsixtyone for the route.
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A week ago Mum lost the dog. Today 13 fireman dug for 4 hours on Bodmin Moor and Minnie is home for Christmas. http://t.co/jJZZ8xkbFp
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5 years
What we need now at this huge moment of political crisis, is a man wearing a red nose on @Channel4News
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4 years
I have come across a model on @depop who looks like a young Matt Hancock and I now can’t unsee it
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2 years
Today after 14 years living in London I am moving to New York! Here in no particular order is a 🧵 of some things I have learnt, laughed and loved about this city
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"Am I a hero? No. When we talk about heroism, it is the stories of refugees we must listen to." Carola Rakete, the sea captain arrested for docking a migrant rescue ship in Italy spoke to @lorenzo_tondo for Today in Focus. Listen to her story:
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Felt a bit sad this morning so went out on my bike to remind myself that if I am to be trapped anywhere, at least it’s in one of the best cities in the world.
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When you find out he had another family all along
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All be upstanding for New Zealand, which has just passed a law granting victims of domestic violence 10 days paid leave to allow them to leave their partners, find new homes and protect themselves and their children
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6 years
@joepike @itvtynetees God Joe it's so obvious, he wants a Brexit, a clear Brexit option, but not that Brexit, not that Brexit at all
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If you haven't listened to this morning's episode of Today in Focus, you won't have heard that I have (in the common parlance of twitter dot com) some PERSONAL NEWS......Next week will be the last time you hear me on the podcast!
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Rachel Humphreys
6 years
To understand why the language used by Andrew Neil in his (now deleted) tweet is so problematic, listen to our Today in Focus episode with Carole in which she reflects on the impact of being labelled "a mad cat lady"
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Carole Cadwalladr
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4 days ago, I wrote to @bbc re its role in amplifying @arron_banks ’ harassment campaign against me. I cited Neil’s tweets. This isn’t just sexist & unfunny. & it doesn’t just reveal wider failure to report the story. It betrays the British public. Who are not being told the truth
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Eight quid for an egg free egg
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I’ve loved producing the @guardian ’s Today in Focus podcast this year, and feel very lucky to say that from today I’m it’s new co-host! Listen to my interview with @Gladwell about strangers, and the consequences of misunderstanding people we don’t know
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3 years
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Keir Starmer
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The Government has lost control of infections, putting our economy and our NHS at grave risk. The Prime Minister must convene COBRA to review whether the planned relaxation of restrictions is appropriate. The priority must be to allow people to celebrate Christmas safely.
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TOO excited! Today in Focus won a gold (Best Current Affairs podcast) + 2 silvers @britpodawards tonight! Well done to the incredible @AnushkaAsthana @NicoleMJackson @phil_maynard @MythiliRao @IndiaRakusen @Joshuapkelly11 @hansermoore @courtneyyusuf @elizacasss @AxelKacoutie 🍾
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3 years
Just above all else here for David Seaman’s celebratory bopping
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9 years
I see November is here
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5 years
Congratulations to @SamiraAhmedUK who has won her equal pay case against the BBC, who according to the judgment argued that Jeremy Vine was paid more than her in part because he was required to have "a glint in the eye" (para 149)
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5 years
Ladies and gentlemen, Boris Johnson's mandate
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Labour Friends of just the first two children
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@krishgm @Philosopha1 It's 100,000 fewer votes than Owen Smith got when he lost to Jeremy Corbyn
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Kate Middleton, the only woman who can pull off visiting the Taj Mahal dressed as the Taj Mahal
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Yes Brexit is bad, but right now Richard and Judy are presenting This Morning and are telling Paul O'Grady about the time they saw a ghost in a Paris hotel room and Richard chased it with a torch
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Rachel Humphreys
2 years
You do not need to go to Leicester Square, ever.
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6 years
I’ve been wanting to shout about this for awhile and now I can because it is An Actual Thing: @guardian is launching a daily news podcast and guess what? I’m on the team!
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4 years
In today's podcast @Andrew__Roth and @HannaLiubakova tell the incredible story behind elections in Belarus, and how an authoritarian leader in power for nearly 30 years is being challenged by a protest movement led by a group of inspirational women:
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Coming up on @LBC @ShelaghFogarty speaks to Benedict Cumberbatch about his fears for refugees leaving the Calais camp today
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Rachel Humphreys
9 years
So this Dolce and Gabbana boycott might be the easiest one I've ever done
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Rachel Humphreys
3 years
From the end of this month I will be a Senior Producer for @wallstjournal 's daily podcast 'The Journal.' joining @kate_linebaugh @Ryan_Knutson and the team @Gimletmedia
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@estwebber @Lukejones03 @scottygb New ITV show pitch: Lords Island
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Well done @SkyNews
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The winter covid plan is here
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Assuming this means Colin the Caterpillar is now implicated?
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The man responsible for making @mrjamesob a viral sensation is leaving @LBC . A big loss! Adrian has been instrumental to the station's digital success in the past decade, and was also just a really great person to make mindless conversation with in the office.
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Today marks my final day running the digital team at LBC after 13 incredible years. Here follows a thread of some of my favourite memories. 1/
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We’re up for Best Daily Pod, Best Current Affairs and Best Interview Pod @britpodawards ! Thanks to the whole team, all our freelancers and amazing @guardian journalists who work so hard to make Today in Focus!
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Anushka Asthana
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Wowser - Today in Focus has 3 nominations in the British Podcast Awards-well done team-you guys are sensational! 👏 @NicoleMJackson @phil_maynard @rachel_hump @Joshuapkelly11 @elizacasss @hansermoore @courtneyyusuf @AxelKacoutie @rosedelarra @SamiKent @alexatackonline AND MORE!
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When I see Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis I get sad because Pete Postlethwaite isn't alive to play him http://t.co/ClvvKF9JvO
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How have we allowed a situation to develop in this country where thousands are trapped in homes they cannot sell? Important podcast today with @Robert_Booth and Natalie, who lives in a building with flammable cladding which caught fire in May.
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3 years
Taking a couple of weeks off and leaving you in the capable hands of @NosheenIqbal and @safimichael on Today in Focus who have some brilliant episodes coming up! Meanwhile my break has started with my favourite thing of all time ever: a sleeper train (love waking up to this view)
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💕VERY EXCITED that today’s podcast is a @guardian BLIND DATE TAKEOVER! 💕 6 listeners, 3 Zoom dates and we recorded each one to hear what looking for love in lockdown sounds like. Produced by matchmaker extraordinaire @hansermoore
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In the name of journalism I gave up caffeine for a whole *24 hours* before an interview with the fascinating @michaelpollan who has written about how and why we’re all so addicted to it and the results were…well, you’ll just have to listen to the podcast:
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4 years
Poisoned underwear, Putin’s secret aquadisco and a very dramatic courtroom scene: today’s podcast about Alexei Navalny’s return to Russia has it all. Brilliantly told by @Andrew__Roth . Made by @courtneyyusuf @MythiliRao and sound design by @AxelKacoutie
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Tom Watson tells #r4today that he thinks Boris “has a career, on Love Yourself Island” and is then corrected by John Humphrys who reminds him that the show is called Love Island and thus the not very good quip is truly ruined.
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After 3 years of execing Today in Focus, Friday was @NicoleMJackson ’s last day on the podcast! Nicole IS TiF in so many ways so we asked listener and amazing illustrator @laurieavon to create this to celebrate everything she’s done since we launched back in 2018:
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Today in Focus: THIS IS REALLY SAD 👇
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Anushka Asthana
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Really excited to be joining ITV news as deputy political editor to @peston working with the brilliant @amberdebotton once more! Really looking forward to joining a great team...
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Delighted that the first episode I have made for @WSJ ’s The Journal podcast is about Taylor Swift!! @kate_linebaugh talks to @AnneMarieSteele about how Tay’s push for music ownership comes as her own label is making it harder for artists to re-record:
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Rachel Humphreys
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If you had told 15 year-old me that one day I would produce an episode of @BBCWomansHour featuring an interview with @GabrielleUk I would have been STUPIDLY excited (and baffled). It is happening, and I am STUPIDLY excited (and baffled). Listen from 10! ( #dreamscancometrue )
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8 years
Strong detective work
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4 years
Podcasters/broadcasters! Yesterday I discovered a solution to recording interviews and script at home! It’s a tent. A tent in my bedroom.
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2 years
I have made a terrible mistake in moving to America, a country which seems to have limited access to halloumi.
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2 months
Today the sham trial of my @WSJ colleague Evan Gershkovich began in Russia, the latest chapter in a series of ridiculous legal proceedings that have kept him behind bars for over a year. The Russian regime must end its baseless attacks on Evan and free him now. #IStandWithEvan
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7 years
I have consulted a friend in Australia to find out what 2018 is like. He says “it’s a bit drab”. Happy New Year everyone!
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5 years
When I first read about Anna Sorokin, a young woman who faked the life of a billionaire heiress, I thought her story would make a great podcast. Today, that podcast exists! Told by @HadleyFreeman and Jesse Hawk, who filmed Anna on a lavish trip to Morocco
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And thank you to YOU for listening! I have loved hearing from you all and know that you are all safe hands with the amazing @NosheenIqbal and @safimichael who have got some great episodes coming up. I’m so sad to leave, but very glad they’re steering the TiF juggernaut now.
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3 years
I have SO MANY PEOPLE to thank at @guardian and I'll be filling my feed with tweets about them all in the coming days but if you have ever listened to Today in Focus, thank you. You make our podcast what it is and have made it such a joy to work on since we launched it in 2018.
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8 years
The New York Times doesn't pull any punches in its response to being barred from the White House
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5 years
Last night, a new experience: going up on stage to collect an award. I am GIDDY that Case Notes, a podcast I worked on @ClassicFM won the Best True Crime category @britpodawards !!! And we didn’t get to do a speech so..you guessed it..I’m doing some shout outs here
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4 years
Very here for the Indian police officer who has decided wearing a coronavirus-themed helmet is the best way to enforce a lockdown
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6 years
Vital local radio services and jobs sacrificed so that Global can "lead the commercial sector and compete with R1 and R2 at breakfast time". Sad that Global have made this decision and disappointing Ofcom gave them the green light in the first place:
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RadioToday UK
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Capital, Heart, and Smooth radio stations are all ending local and regional breakfast shows this year as @Global introduces national programmes on all frequencies
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In today's podcast @HannahEP looks at how coronavirus is being used by the Indian government to erode the rights and freedoms of it's citizens, and journalist @svaradarajan on why his reporting on the spread of Covid-19 led to him being visited by police
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2 years
Nick Clegg announcing that Trump will be allowed back on Facebook “with new guard rails” is very “trust me we’ll preserve Lib Dem values in a Tory coalition” vibes
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5 months
Back at the SDNY courthouse for Sam Bankman-Fried’s sentencing, and some unfinished business.
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6 years
UPDATE: I am here for the summer ☀️⛱🏄🏻‍♀️ finding and putting stories about women on the radio. My DMs are open for ideas/ leads / hellos..get in touch!
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I've long been interested in the mysterious escape attempts by Dubai's Princesses. In today's podcast we look at the court case which might shed light on them, and *could* be hugely significant for women in the UAE. With @Ola_Salem and @Haroon_Siddique
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6 years
Encouraging to see that property prices in London increased by an average of £1,000 between the first and second edition of today’s @standardnews
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Can anyone in Siberia explain to me how they make train doors that don't freeze shut? Asking because I only got to work today because of a proactive train guard with a very strong kick. #BeastFromTheEast
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Asked in this if it was reasonable to conclude that police may have had enough information to identify Couzens as a sexual threat to women prior to the murder of Everard, Met assistant commissioner Nick Ephgrave accepted that that was possible
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Spot @kate_linebaugh in action
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Paul Beckett
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@WSJ newsroom on the news Evan is free. ⁦ @emmatuckerWSJ ⁩ addresses the troops. “This is a historical day for The Wall Street Journal.”
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U.K. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has just told the BBC that she supports British people who want to go to Ukraine to fight.
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3 years
Just off out for dinner
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7 years
Dress down Friday
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Police trying (and failing) to quell the 'sit down for Syria' protesters outside Number 10 @LBC
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4 years
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
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"I'm grateful to all of you, but I'd rather be with Jo." Brendan Cox speaking in Trafalgar Square now #MoreInCommon
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The interview in this with Barry, who was 5 when he was sent to one of Canada’s indigenous residential schools where hundreds of unmarked graves have been discovered was one of the hardest I’ve ever done. Listen to him and @LeylandCecco on today’s podcast
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Just heard Bernard Jenkin ask #r4today “why don’t you get the EU into your studio?” A question which, when you consider the size of most radio studios, has a fairly obvious answer.
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3 years
Very excited to be able to share this..we're being joined on Today in Focus by not one, but two incredible @guardian journalists! Welcome @safimichael and @NosheenIqbal 👏👏👏
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Guardian Comms
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NEW: Michael Safi and Nosheen Iqbal announced as new presenters of the @guardian ’s award-winning daily news podcast Today in Focus @safimichael @NosheenIqbal @guardianaudio
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For everyone who has listened to today's (very good, #ItsComingHome ) Today in Focus ep then you'll know that A) @AnushkaAsthana is tragically LEAVING! + B) we are not the same person! 👋 to new followers and from our whole team: thank you for the lovely messages about the pod!
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It began with a mysterious tip in 2016 and it ended with a President being found guilty of a crime for the first time in history. On our podcast today: how the @WSJ uncovered the story that led to Trump’s conviction. With @joe_palazzolo + @coryramey
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In today’s podcast: the extraordinary story of the young British woman who says she was gang raped in Cyprus, forced to sign a retraction statement and then prosecuted for lying. Told by her lawyer @MichaelPolakLaw @expertsabroad and journalist @NoaShpigel
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6 years
Having worked at Global in various roles this pay gap doesn’t surprise me (hardly any women are in senior roles) but I am frustrated that staff have to find out about it by looking on a government website. This shouldn’t be a tick box exercise, but an opportunity for change.
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5 years
You might be surprised to hear Dave, but US TOO
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A bike is the best and fastest way to get around London! The city still needs more cycle lanes but it is so much safer than it used to be. Follow @joncstone ’s excellent videos to learn some good routes
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It's my last day working @BBCWomansHour for a bit so I'm going to shamelessly plug the programme I produced back in June about The Truth project run by @InquiryCSA . Not always an easy listen, and not at all easy to make, but incredibly rewarding:
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Rachel Humphreys
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I was let loose producing @BBCWomansHour today which IS as fun as you might imagine. We discussed late diagnosis of autism in women and spoke to a fabulous 80 year-old soprano:
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