Sarah Donaldson
@sarahdonaldson.bsky.social
now: co-founder @thenerve.news before: deputy editor, Observer New Review thenerve.news
It’s not journalism, it’s an “intelligence business” Solidarity with Telegraph reporters - and with readers whose “experience” will be “reinvented” by AI (Remember the T’s new boss recently awarded Palantir’s Peter Thiel a big award for “entrepreneurial spirit… and societal impact”)
BBC News is cutting around 100 jobs in its latest cost-saving measures The BBC also confirmed it will close BBC Scotland, BBC Three and BBC Radio 4 Extra pressgazette.co.uk/news/journal...
Journalism job cuts in 2026 tracked: Latest from BBC, Metro, Guardian, Future, Reach
Press Gazette will update this page throughout 2026 with any journalism job cuts and redundancies announced in the UK or US.
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Punctuation correction: …is hiring at least 12 “journalists” to build…
Press Gazette@pressgazette.co.uk · 3w agoReform UK is hiring at least 12 journalists to build a "national publishing operation" including a digital newsroom and expanded video output via Reform TV on Youtube pressgazette.co.uk/news/reform-...
Chancellor John Healey calls Nigel Farage "Liz Truss with a bitcoin account"
"I hope to live to 100," Gloria says. "There is so much to do." Exemplary, excellent 2011 interview with Gloria Steinem by the late Rachel Cooke... www.theguardian.com/books/2011/n...
Gloria Steinem: 'I think we need to get much angrier'
Gloria Steinem has been an outspoken figure on behalf of women's rights and the pro-choice movement for half a century. She tells Rachel Cooke about her opposition to cosmetic surgery and her ambivale...
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I am genuinely ASTONISHED at the number of mainstream ‘normal’ journos fawning about Rod Liddle. Just cos someone is nice to YOU or can string a decent sentence together doesn’t excuse their revolting / irresponsible behaviour. Such a terrible look. This is good tho
Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 3mo agoNEW | A corrective to the gushing tributes… LIDDLE TO BE CELEBRATED An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/liddle-to-...
Aw look at his wee face when he’s told you can make good money out of crypto (Full clip below)
THE NERVE@thenerve.news · 4mo agoNEW "Have you made money out of this?": Nigel Farage’s crypto-epiphany In part 3 of our investigation The Harborne Receipts, @luciaoc.bsky.social reports on the period that Farage's love of cryptocurrency emerged We can disclose his earliest known endorsement yet, this 2020 Facebook video:
🏝️😎 The Nerve’s Summer Books 2026 🌞📚 From a sweeping Korean family saga to a 'mordantly funny' memoir about fame, our team of writers and editors each recommend a perfect read for your summer getaway - and one they’ll be taking on holiday www.thenerve.news/p/best-summe...
Keir Starmer's response to Nigel Farage at PMQs just now was probably the most powerful and eloquent I have seen him in the Commons. The full answer is worth reading.
“It is time for a collective awakening.” Gisèle Pelicot on the responsibility of all tech platforms to shut down websites and chatrooms that enable the sexual abuse and rape of women. They are “a tool of violence, a tool of masculine domination”. Interview by the Nerve’s @luciaoc.bsky.social
Tony Blair’s essay VS the Pope’s encyclical Blair essay: number 1 bit of advice, do not regulate AI (in which I have £millions invested) Pope essay: we need the most rigorous constraints on AI 1/
Delighted to read this. Scurrilous slapp libel case against @millmedia.bsky.social, in which the subject of their investigation also sued reporter @coramazov.bsky.social and editor @joshih.bsky.social personally, thrown out by judge. But the case has cost Mill M £40k-unlikely to be recuperated🤯
Press Gazette@pressgazette.co.uk · 5mo ago'Thank God that’s over': A libel claim brought against local news publisher Mill Media has been thrown out as an 'abuse of process' as David Lammy promised action against such groundless lawsuits intended to silence public interest reporting pressgazette.co.uk/news/mill-me...
🔴 Keir Starmer promised to crackdown on "Slapps" - abusive libel cases to silence journalists and critics Then Labour quietly dropped it We can reveal why: a three-year lobbying blitz by libel lawyers who've acted for Russian oligarchs, Epstein + more democracyforsale.substack.com/p/how-lawyer...
How lawyers to the super-rich strangled Labour's Slapp bill
Exclusive: A discreet lobbying campaign by lawyers who have acted for oligarchs and the super-rich told government that reforming England's libel laws was too difficult.
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Not sure exactly what these two approaches to Palantir reporting today by the new Observer - under Tortoise media - & the Nerve, set up by five former Obs journalists (me included) tells us, but I feel like it’s definitely… something… 😂 Oh and also Obs launched v nice-looking new mag. 👏 that team
Bruce Springsteen is making me a fan... Opening his concert in Los Angeles yesterday, worth the wait to see the transition to the opening song 90 seconds in. ✌️❤️🇺🇸 #Resist
Tens of thousands chant “Russians, go home!” at tonight’s anti-Orbán concert in Budapest’s Heroes’ Square ahead of Sunday’s Hungarian election.
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Lots of sensible recommendations in this IMO. But many of them not new - so it is to see if the government will actually enact these, especially the parts which Rycroft suggests should be carried out through the Representation of the People Bill.
The Rycroft Review: Report of the independent review into countering foreign financial influence and interference in UK politics
Report of the independent review into countering foreign financial influence and interference in UK politics.
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The story of 'woke' FOr years. mainstream conservatives and even centrists rounded on progressive culture as though it were a threat to society. Now they see where the real threat lay Writer and critic @dorianlynskey.bsky.social examines the meaning of one of the defining terms of our age.
Really sad to read this. Love and solidarity to all my former colleagues and anyone affected on the og Tortoise team 🙏
Bron Maher@bronmaher.bsky.social · 7mo agoNew: The Observer has opened a voluntary redundancy round. It comes nearly a year after the paper transferred from The Guardian's ownership to that of Tortoise Media. Unlike the last VR round, pre-transfer, this one is also open to staff who were originally at Tortoise.
NEW "I wouldn't trust the Americans one inch not to escalate" In an exclusive interview with the Nerve, former senior Nato commander and Iraq veteran General Sir Richard Shirreff gives his in-depth analysis on Trump's "war of choice and hubris" in the Middle East. 1/9🧵
While this Labour government has had plenty of disappointing moments, this really is huge. Campaigners and experts have always told me this is the quickest and most effective way to immediately reduce child poverty. It took too long to get here but this is big.
Two-child limit scrapped as historic Bill to lift 450,000 children out of poverty becomes law
Historic legislation to end the two-child limit has become law, putting 450,000 children on a pathway out of poverty in the final year of this Parliament.
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Extraordinary development in this cynical case against local journalism outlet @londonermag.bsky.social The claimant didn’t turn up and sent a crap sick note. Total waste of public resources and court time and has cost the publisher £20k already
Joshi Herrmann@joshih.bsky.social · 8mo agoUpdate on our libel case 🚨 - the businessman suing us didn’t turn up to the high court for the first hearing. Judge was unimpressed with his medical evidence. Fighting these threats to journalism in the UK is frustrating and expensive but we will win. www.the-londoner.co.uk/that-busines...
Some community therapy from the Nerve (From our peerless cultural advice columnist Philippa Perry ❤️)
THE NERVE@thenerve.news · 8mo agoThe suffering of people witnessing war through screens is nothing compared to those experiencing it, but our brains still process news of trauma as a threat, writes the Nerve’s psychotherapist @pperry.bsky.social. Here she shares 10 ways to cope with news of war in our social media age 🧵 1/12
