By Cait Findlay, MA Newspaper Journalism Before Sarah* met her wife, she found that conversations in bars about her job always led to the same jokes – jokes she describes as “low-hanging fruit”. Sarah is a registrar doctor working in obstetrics and gynaecology. She is also a lesbian. She says: “When I was single, there…
In just the last few decades, a small corner of India has risen from near-total obscurity to win recognition as home to some of the world’s most beautiful natural scenery. But an influx of tourism to the Kerala Backwaters is having a devastating impact on the lives of the people who have long depended on them.
By Abigail Buchanan, MA Newspaper Journalism Stepping into the offices of The Lady magazine in Covent Garden is like stepping back in time. Behind a cream exterior and gilt doors that read ‘General Enquiries’ and ‘Classified Advertising’, there is an unmanned old-timey oak reception and a bell that says, ‘PLEASE RING’. Old issues of the…
By Lydia Veljanovski, MA Newspaper Journalism I’m sat in the church pews with a plate of curried fish on my lap, bubbles are floating in the air above and everyone around me is intent on finding Geoffrey: an invisible man who is accused of kicking a dog. As a custard pie is carried down the…
By Alice Hall, MA Newspaper Journalism ~ More and more people are turning to apps such as Tinder to meet future partners. Alice Hall explores a hidden world where users become hooked in a cycle of addiction and despair. It’s three in the morning and Sam* is partying with some friends in an east London…
By Isabel Van Brugen, MA Newspaper Journalism ~ Brandi Swindell set up her first Stanton Healthcare clinic in Meridian, Idaho in 2006, in a building provided to her by her local church. The Christian activist set up the clinic after she says a friend she made while working at a national park during the late…
By Isabel Van Brugen, MA Newspaper Journalism ~ A Northern Irish crisis pregnancy healthcare centre set up by US pro-life activists has been secretly recorded saying abortion causes breast cancer and infertility, an undercover investigation has found. A counsellor from the Belfast clinic of Stanton Healthcare was recorded telling an undercover reporter that she was…
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