Isabelle Roughol

Journalist, podcaster, media consultant, historian. Telling stories & building better newsrooms. Ex- LinkedIn News, Le Figaro, The Guardian, The Cambodia Daily. 🎓 Mizzou '08, Birkbeck '25.

The last freedom

The last freedom

As borders slowly reopen, immigrants and expats won’t soon forget that our freedom of movement is conditional, our lifestyle only tolerated

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
Borderline
Empire, Churchill and killing monarchs: footnotes on my conversation on (not quite) everything with Jonn Elledge

Empire, Churchill and killing monarchs: footnotes on my conversation on (not quite) everything with Jonn Elledge

I can't possibly summarise the latest episode but I can add plenty of footnotes.

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
Borderline
044 | Jonn Elledge | A conversation on (not quite) everything

044 | Jonn Elledge | A conversation on (not quite) everything

Why Britain never got over the empire, who of the French and the English killed the most monarchs and multiculturalism vs. universalism.

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
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Squid Game, Afghan refugees and the UK's new nationality bill | Borderline Brief #1

Squid Game, Afghan refugees and the UK's new nationality bill | Borderline Brief #1

A weekly curation of news for global citizens: immigration, free movement, globalisation and more.

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
Borderline
043 | Christiana Bukalo | Living stateless

043 | Christiana Bukalo | Living stateless

Who are you when no nation claims you? Millions of stateless people navigate life unrecognised by any country. They are the literal citizens of nowhere.

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
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042 | Will Buckingham | Leave the door ajar for strangers...

042 | Will Buckingham | Leave the door ajar for strangers...

Xenophobia lurks in all of us. But so does philoxenia, that peculiar curiosity and desire to connect when we meet a stranger. What if we cultivated it?

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
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041 | Qian Julie Wang | "Only two people on the continent could know my secret"

041 | Qian Julie Wang | "Only two people on the continent could know my secret"

Growing up undocumented | Episode 41

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
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Borderline is going back to school

Borderline is going back to school

I'm joining the Entrepreneurial Journalism Creators program at the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at City University New York.

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol