The right tools can transform your solo media business. Here's how to pick them.

The right tools can transform your solo media business. Here's how to pick them.

You may not have employees, but you’re still hiring.

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
✍️ Blog
A vintage map of the world with an eraser on top. South America, Africa and South Asia have been erased.

“We don't really mean the world when we say the world.”

And we've stopped even noticing it.

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
🎧 Borderline
We don’t need a global news brand. We need a globally literate media.

We don’t need a global news brand. We need a globally literate media.

The Smiths may not be the ones to bring together the world’s news consumers. But should anyone?

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
Essays
You’re probably wrong about refugees

You’re probably wrong about refugees

Busting some common myths and assumptions about asylum-seekers and Channel crossings

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
🎧 Borderline
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
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.

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
Essays
How to produce a podcast without it taking over your life

How to produce a podcast without it taking over your life

Do everything I didn't do

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
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