Isabelle Roughol

Journalist, podcaster, media consultant, public historian. Telling stories & building better newsrooms. 🎓 Mizzou '08, Birkbeck '25.

002 | Jamie Kanki | The big wooing of international students

002 | Jamie Kanki | The big wooing of international students

Universities have been battling it out to woo international students. Can they survive without them? Schools in the US and UK, but also now China, Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea... have been racing to attract international students from Asia, Eastern Europe or Africa, and cash in on a $300 billion market.

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Introducing Borderline: a podcast for defiant global citizens

Introducing Borderline: a podcast for defiant global citizens

Listen to episode 1, a conversation with Zach Honig on the super weird new way to travel

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Isabelle Roughol
001 | Zach Honig | The super weird new way to travel

001 | Zach Honig | The super weird new way to travel

Zach Honig, editor at large at The Points Guy and ultimate frequent flyer, shares how he plans to stay safe on planes, how airlines have abused customers during the pandemic and why you might want to stay local. “Those of us who are used to enjoying the journey as much

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Swapping the pen for the needle

Swapping the pen for the needle

A vignette of lockdown life

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Isabelle Roughol
One wounds you, the other saves you

One wounds you, the other saves you

Writing is summoning the courage to walk naked down the street, and this man pointed at my belly fat and said: “This doesn’t belong here.”

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🎧 Borderline
Your grief isn't lesser because others suffer more

Your grief isn't lesser because others suffer more

Mourning a normal life when we have it good

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Isabelle Roughol
Notes from a locked down country

Notes from a locked down country

Despair and solace in complete isolation

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Isabelle Roughol
The must-have skill in a global job

The must-have skill in a global job

If you find yourself in charge of a team and product’s global expansion, language will be your most powerful tool.

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Isabelle Roughol