Rachael Jolley
About
Award-winning journalist and editor.
Also: senior think-tanker, lecturer, policy specialist, podcast producer.
Specialisms: global journalism, media freedom, vaccine hesitancy, freedom of expression, local news trends, public attitudes & public health, immigration & identity, digital security/surveillance, podcast series producer
Awards include:
British Society of Magazine Editors' specialist editor of the year, Apex grand award, Daily Telegraph Young Science Writer of the Year merit award, Miller Freeman investigative journalist of the year (runner up), Hermann Kesten prize
Writing, speaking and media appearances include interviews on Channel 4, BBC radio, Al Jazeera, LBC, NPR, Monocle radio, plus 7 years as editor-in-chief at Index on Censorship magazine & managing editor, Business Traveller magazine, as well as writer for New Statesman, Irish Times, The Times, Slate, New Scientist, Prospect, Huffington Post, The Conversation and The Guardian.
Commissioned writers including Ariel Dorfman, Amartya Sen, Julian Baggini, Hilary Mantel, Katherine Parkinson, Ian Rankin
- Writing for Prospect magazine
- Six years as a speaker at the Hay Festival, here with Helena Kennedy, Joan Bakewell and Christina Lamb
- Five years as a speaker at Perugia international journalism festival
- Guest on the Eurozine podcast
- Reporting on local news and the pandemic for the Reuters Institute
- Written new global report on local journalism and Covid
- Seven years as editor-in-chief at Index on Censorship magazine
- Long interview on BBC's Digital Planet
- US NPR show Global Journalist
- Podcast series on the dangerous business of journalism
- Books include Thinking Ahead, Why We Need to Improve Children's Health and Wellbeing
- Book: Charlie Hebdo, the Global View with Elif Shafak & Ariel Dorfman
- Monocle radio extensive interview, on the rise of podcasting
- Regular show host on Resonance Radio