Huffpost reporter Nadine White is joining The Independent as its first dedicated race correspondent.
White told Press Gazette that reporting about issues relating to race, and amplifying black perspectives in particular, was “part and parcel” of why she became a journalist.
She said she wanted “to be part of the change that I’ve always wanted to see” and that being race correspondent was both her “dream role and an important continuation of the work I’ve been doing over these years”.
The role of race correspondent appears to be a first for the UK media, although the Guardian and BBC each have community affairs correspondents with similar intentions. The Guardian appointed two correspondents in December to improve its reporting on the social, political and economic experiences of the UK’s diverse communities.
Updated 02/03/2021 10:58 GMT
Why Rishi Sunak May Struggle To Stay Popular As Covid Collides With The Economy
Tory insiders wonder whether the chancellor can continue to emulate Tony Blair as “everybody’s friend” as crisis turns into recovery.
If there were any doubts that Rishi Sunak wants to be prime minister one day, they were surely put to rest by the slick pre-Budget video that briefly set political Twitter alight on Monday.
Big budget social media has become one of the chancellor’s calling cards, and suggests he understands the power of PR as much as Tony Blair did in the 1990s.
Updated 01/03/2021 08:49 GMT
‘Your Dealer Is Nearby’ – How Drugs Are Delivered To Your Doorstep
These are the substances driving county lines operations and how much Britain’s most popular drugs cost.
This is part of a series by HuffPost UK about county lines drug dealing in Britain.
Drugs are at the heart of county lines activity. The narcotics market is worth an estimated £9.4bn a year in the UK. About three million people took drugs in England and Wales in 2019, with around 300,000 in England taking the most harmful: opiates and/or crack cocaine.
In the first three months of lockdown alone, drug offences rose by 27% across England and Wales despite total recorded crime dropping by a quarter.
Updated 01/03/2021 09:38 GMT
Revealed: Drug Gangs Are Stealing Children From Loving Families – Even In Lockdown
“County lines” operators are using jaw-dropping tactics to snare vulnerable children across the UK.
A ruthless child-grooming gang flew a boy back to Britain so he could continue dealing drugs after his desperate parents sent him to Kenya for his own safety, HuffPost UK can reveal.
Another grooming victim had to be held down by his mother and siblings as he tried to knife his innocent step-father, unrecognisable from the star pupil and keen footballer he had been a few years earlier.
These are among dozens of horrifying stories from desperate families whose children have been threatened, attacked and ultimately trapped by county lines gangs with little hope of escape.