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Hope Is Around The Corner

The bravest conversations are with those we love

After coming across a far-right YouTuber trying to provoke people for content, Nikesh asks: is it better to engage or ignore? And how do we have hard conversations with those closest to us?

Nikesh Shukla
Nikesh Shukla

Edition 43

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How the BBC failed Gaza

Faisal Hanif

We've Got Your Boy

We’ve Got Your Boy: Episode 3, Doli Capax (Capable of ‘Evil’)

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

We've Got Your Boy

We’ve Got Your Boy: Episode 2, Can’t Meet His Needs

The role of school exclusions in serious youth violence, and what a safeguarding review tells us about the issue

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

We've Got Your Boy

We’ve Got Your Boy: Episode 1, Hurt people, hurt people

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

Cable Community News

‘People want to understand their world’: 5 lessons from 2024’s big journalism study

Eliz Mizon
Eliz Mizon

Cable Community News

Does the Bristol Cable have an editor? Not really…

Collaboration and collective decision making are at the heart of how our editorial team operates – with the aim of producing better journalism for Bristol.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Podcasts

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Cable Live: Moya Lothian-Maclean discusses the future of campaigning journalism

Moya Lothian-Maclean, contributing editor at Novara Media and presenter of the Human Resources podcast, on her journey into journalism, bad experiences working at the BBC – and why new models of media offer hope.

George Colwey Priyanka Raval
George Colwey and Priyanka Raval

Investigations

Transparency matters: why is Bristol City Council failing on freedom of information?

Cable research shows that Bristol is worse than many other major cities at handling citizens’ FOI requests. Why is this a problem – and will the end of the mayoral system next year bring more open local government in the city?

Alex Turner
Alex Turner

Voices

‘I didn’t come to the UK for some dream – leaving my country became the only option left’

A Turkish journalist who had to flee her country to escape the repressive government shares what her life in the UK is like as she waits for her asylum claim to be processed.

Shakuntala Sumanasekera

Cable Community News

The new fake news: how much of a threat does AI pose to journalism?

An investigation has revealed that several stories published by a new local news site were made up. So were the journalists who ‘wrote’ them.

Eliz Mizon
Eliz Mizon

Cable Community News

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We’re working to diversify the Cable team. Let’s start with our freelancer base

The Cable exists to challenge the structure of the media, but we are not representative enough of our city. Here’s what we’re doing to change things.

Priyanka Raval
Priyanka Raval
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