Morning all 🌞
Welcome back to the YJC newsletter! It’s been a bit of a wild time since I last wrote to you all with deadlines and interviews flying left right and centre. I still struggle to type at a normal speed at the minute. I’m still in peak end-of-term mode 🥴
Anyhow, enough about me. It’s time to celebrate what you’ve all been up to! Not a huge amount this week, but you know what they say, seeing quality not quantity is best, and I’m here for it 😎
I hope you’re sat reading this with an ice-cold brew outside in the sun today. You never know how long the blue skies will last so get out and enjoy it while you can!
P.S. ice cream is also a necessity today. I think you all deserve a minimum of 2 scoops each 🍦
First Times 👏
Clara Murray on how illegal cannabis farming is affecting the climate crisis for Vice.
Sasha Mills discusses the systematic changes happening in Worcester College Oxford for her first news reporting commission in The Times.
News 🗞
Yasmin Al-Najar talks about the four year anniversary since the Grenfell Tower disaster, and how the delay in justice shows the UK’s systematic failings for The New Arab.
Al-Najar also wrote a piece for Refugee Week in The New Arab, which aims to combat the harmful and false narratives about refugees.
Politics 🗣
Al-Najar also talks about the Singh Report and Islamophobia and racism in the Conservative party for Prospect Magazine.
Culture 📺
Caitlin Tilley interviews Dr Christian Jessen on how they made TV show Embarrassing Bodies for The Guardian.
Emily Louise Baynham on the top five albums that shaped her as a person.
Minreet Kaur talks about moongre, and Indian vegetable that holds many family and childhood memories, for Noon.
Aditya Iyer critiques Raoul Peck’s HBO docuseries on Western colonialism and white supremacy, ‘Exterminate All the Brutes’, for Hyperallergic.
🚧 Projects & Call-outs 📣
I couldn’t complete this newsletter without giving a shoutout to the magazines the 2020/21 Goldsmiths MA journo cohort have just made. We all worked so hard and we’re oh so proud!
Clever Gretel, is ‘the people’s food website’ , a magazine where the personal meets the political, and there’s lovely recipes to try too! Edited by Weronika Strzyżyńska, with Fiona Holland, Scarlett Sherriff, Sam Shaw and Clotilde Nogues.
One Track Mind, is a magazine with sex-positive content at its ❤️ Edited by Lauren Sneath, with Nenseh Koneh, Daniel King, Izzy Walker and Niamh Houston.
Stitch-Up is the mag helping you ‘break up with fast-fashion’ 👗 Edited by Clara Murray, with Caitlin Tilley, Anna Prudhomme, Tom Newlove and Dominique Boulan.
If any of these mags interest you at all stay tuned… they may be calling for submissions in the near future! 😃
Podcasts 🎤
Ben Wylie and Alicia Arcas started a podcast on how to balance your work life with your journalism in Balancing Act. Listen to their first episode here.
Common Thread is the podcast from Stitch Up magazine. In their first episode they talk about if it’s ever ok to wear plastic? Check it out here.
One Track Mind mag have also got a podcast on the songs that have impacted different people’s sex, relationship and dating lives. Have a listen.
Gretel Talks is the latest podcast from Clever Gretel magazine. The idea is to take one dish each episode and talk to people about the various stories that surround it. The first two episodes are out now: one on porridge 🥣, the other on pizza 🍕.
That’s all for now lovelies, have a wonderful week! ✨
Until next time 👋🏾
Fi x