This is the dynamic in the newsroom. Big names or “talent” over the mass of mid-level producers, contracted workers over freelancers. How can journalists have open discussions in this environment?

Proud to join women like Diane Abbott and Noura Erakat in the Spring Issue of Women in Leadership magazine. Read my piece on why I left the BBC over #Gaza, and why I still believe in the idea of public service journalism.

From my interview with @scotnational.bsky.social on why mainstream news outlets haven’t openly condemned, or properly covered, Israel’s attacks on journalists in #Gaza. BBC, Sky, ITV - where are your public statements on this? Journalism itself is at stake.

Likeminded creatives have been getting in touch since I started writing about BBC coverage of Gaza, and announced I was supporting Gaza Great Minds charity as a Miss Universe Great Britain finalist. Looking forward to more collaborations.
Photographer: Toks Majek - toksmajek.com

I spoke to Middle East Eye about Israel targeting brave Palestinian journalists like Hossam Shabat in Gaza, and the lack of mainstream media coverage around this.

There’s more than enough evidence to include as *fact* that Israel has been regularly violating the ceasefire in Gaza since it was put into place & has violated it now, killing civilians. Instead the BBC is treating this as an unreliable claim, entirely attributed to Hamas.

It’s come to my attention that 8 mins after ranting about @sangitamyska.bsky.social on LBC, @mrjamesob.bsky.social praised my Indy article on the BBC’s Gaza coverage as “brilliant”. This doesn’t absolve him of attacking another woman of colour mere minutes ago. I stand in solidarity with her.

There’s plenty of concern over unfounded claims Hamas influenced ‘Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone’. Let’s talk about the BBC’s choice to embed with the Israeli military twice, and to be subject to its censor? As I told The National, this was open meddling in BBC coverage.

There is a child at the heart of this - Abdullah - and seeing the BBC’s own child safeguarding rules thrown by the wayside is “a deeply shocking abdication of responsibility”.

Ah I’m in the Mirror and this is a great opportunity to raise awareness around Gaza Great Minds, my chosen charity as a Miss Universe Great Britain Finalist - they’re operating schools across Gaza. Donate here: gazagreatminds.org

In an unexpected bit of news, now I’ve left the BBC I’m returning to the pageant world & am a Miss Universe Great Britain finalist. It’s a platform I’m using to raise awareness around media coverage of Gaza, and to fundraise for the charity Gaza Great Minds - they’re running schools in the strip.

I pitched Hind Rajab’s story to the BBC while she was still alive. I will never stop fighting for the newsroom conditions in which her story would have been told long before she was killed by Israel. We’d have seen immediate wall to wall coverage of a 5-year-old white girl.