Isabelle Roughol

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

Why I've been waiting 100 days for settled status

Why I've been waiting 100 days for settled status

The Home Office has massive backlogs and hundreds of thousands of people are waiting.

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
Immigration
The triumph of “What’s in it for us?” immigration policy

The triumph of “What’s in it for us?” immigration policy

"Let them pick fruit" is not a slip up. It's a philosophy.

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Isabelle Roughol
Newsletters
050 | Colin Yeo | The UK's very low bar on Ukrainian refugees

050 | Colin Yeo | The UK's very low bar on Ukrainian refugees

"It's not that the UK has done absolutely nothing. It's just _almost_ absolutely nothing."

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Isabelle Roughol
Borderline
049 | Michael Rain | What not fitting in can teach you

049 | Michael Rain | What not fitting in can teach you

A conversation with Michael Rain on multiculturalism as a superpower, growing up a Black immigrant in America and why humility is outdated

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Isabelle Roughol
Borderline
The burnout crisis is a workload crisis

The burnout crisis is a workload crisis

Hire more, ask for less. That’s where we need to start.

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Isabelle Roughol
Essays
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.

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Isabelle Roughol
The Lede
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.

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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