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.

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037 | Felix Marquardt | Manifesto for a new nomadism

037 | Felix Marquardt | Manifesto for a new nomadism

People who cross borders can make a better world. But first we need to leave La La Land.

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Isabelle Roughol
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Where in the world are Afghan refugees?

Where in the world are Afghan refugees?

Europe complains, but it's far from hosting the most Afghan refugees and asylum seekers. Still it shines next to the US...

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Isabelle Roughol
Borderline
Why your employer wants to cut your pay when you move

Why your employer wants to cut your pay when you move

Work is increasingly location-independent. Compensation still isn't.

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Isabelle Roughol
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The true citizens of nowhere

The true citizens of nowhere

Citizenship isn't belonging to one nation or a few. It's giving up a bit of the self for the collective.

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Isabelle Roughol
Borderline
New travel rules: Brits can go play around the world... but the world is not welcome here

New travel rules: Brits can go play around the world... but the world is not welcome here

Only those vaccinated by the NHS will be spared quarantine in England. Changes once again fall short for transnational families.

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Isabelle Roughol
Borderline
"Why should my gratitude be any more explicit than yours?"

"Why should my gratitude be any more explicit than yours?"

Dina Nayeri, author of The Ungrateful Refugee, on everything newcomers keep from the native-born

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Isabelle Roughol
Borderline
036 | Dina Nayeri | What immigrants never tell you

036 | Dina Nayeri | What immigrants never tell you

A wide-ranging conversation with Iranian American author Dina Nayeri on the refugee experience, what humans are entitled to and why we won’t let others have it. "There's just so much that the displaced don't tell the native-born."

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Isabelle Roughol
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