Isabelle Roughol
(She/Her)
London
As seen in:
LinkedIn,
Medium,
Business Insider,
The Guardian,
The Independent (UK),
Le Figaro,
Substack,
The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything,
Journalism.co.uk,
GOOD
and
Covers:
Foreign affairs, immigration, geopolitics, globalism, travel, EU, France, UK, US, Cambodia, Australia, media, podcast, tech, entrepreneurship
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Isabelle Roughol’s Biography
Read Full Bio →I'm a journalist and newsroom leader working at the intersection of tech and media, editorial and product, entrepreneurialism and management. I am driven to transform our industry for the future, develop and mentor our people, build compassionate and innovative organizational cultures, and put readers and communities at the center of it all. I also have a love of storytelling and creative work, and refuse to pick one or the other.
I am currently building Borderline, a media company for defiant …
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See all 4 answers →Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
Tbh, April from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. She got me into this.
Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?
Yup, I became editor in chief while I was there as an exchange student. That gives you a sense of the paper's quality...
What's the worst pitch you ever got?
Somebody wondering if my magazine "Newsroom innovation & leadership" was interested. Those are keywords in my LinkedIn headline.