Becky Barrow
@beckymbarrow
News editor of The Sunday Times
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24-05-2010 17:09:39
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We won Sunday Newspaper of the Year at last night's The Press Awards!
Here is a photo of the team, but there are so many other people - designers, subs, graphics, lawyers, cartoonists and so on - who make The Sunday Times what it is.
Think we’ll look back, and be appalled that we let young children have a mobile phone. 👏 👏 Katy Balls
(Just as I look back in horror that colleagues smoked while sitting next to me in an office when I was pregnant)
No journalist should be imprisoned for doing their job.
#WeStandWithEvan today - on the first anniversary of his imprisonment in Russia - and always. ❤️
@wsj Emma Tucker
An important thread from my colleague, and old friend, James Coney.
Read it, and share with everybody who judges/tuts/eye rolls/chastises a family who are just trying to go about their daily life with a disabled child.
BREAKING: A story to cheer you up!
Meet the superstar pianist born without a right hand
👏 👏 Rosamund Urwin
thetimes.co.uk/article/05fd49…
Brilliant news! The moversandshakerspod podcast - about people living with Parkinson’s - is superb. It manages to be funny, helpful and comforting about this grim disease.
Delighted to see it has won 🥇
#parkinsons
“One in seven buildings in the NHS hospital estate were built before the NHS was founded in 1948.”
A figure that so shocked me in this sobering story by Shaun Lintern Ben Spencer Tom Calver that I couldn’t believe it to be true.
It is.
“If you’d lived next door to us, you’d have described us as a ‘perfect family’.”
Not an easy read, but a truly extraordinary one about sibling sex abuse. Rarely talked about, little known but….astonishingly common.
👏 👏 to Decca Aitkenhead
thetimes.co.uk/article/1f5e81…
In 2015, I interviewed Rebecca Myers for our grad scheme.
After nine years, including two with me on the newsdesk, she left us today for The Observer.
“Office parenting” really is a thing. Love, pride and already hoping she’ll come home soon.
In my seven years as a news editor, I have never been asked more questions about a story than: 'What's really up with Kate?'
Here are some of the answers from the always reliable, well-sourced Roya Nikkhah