We are pleased to be doing this hustings event by Haringey Welcome alongside Migrants Organise and London Renters Union & hosted by Gill Taylor

With 1 in 50 Londoners homeless, we look forward to holding candidates from all political parties to account.

museumofhomelessness.org/news/eo7z4mpw5…

Whoever gets to work with Sam next is very lucky. You'll learn a lot about journalism, and even more Hackney lore

🎞️Following the launch of #Defiance , a new series on channel 4 documenting the British South-Asian anti-racist movement, we wanted to share some of our resources on the struggle.

📚Southall: The birth of a Black community irr.org.uk/product/southa…

Not everyone who's read Sam's crucial work at the Hackney Gazette, Big Issue, HuffPost and openDemocracy will know it - because news editors are largely invisible to the public. But he's one of the very very best there is, and he'll make your newsroom *much* better.

Ruby is a star, a rare lobby journalist who hasn't been sucked in by the cult. She consistently prioritises the voices of those without a platform & has more economic savvy in cutting to the heart of a story than reporters at much bigger titles. Hire her if you have a brain!!

Look at this amazing cuttings list and offer Anita a job immediately. We desperately need more reporters like her who don't just repeat the same lines as everyone else but actually want to reveal how the changing world affects real people - especially those at its sharp end.

Ruby is the BEST lobby correspondent.

Absolutely devastated that she's being made redundant, along with so many others.

No doubt she'll be snapped up immediately.

I'm absolutely devastated that Anita is going.

She's one of the most insanely talented journalists I've ever had the pleasure of working with. Her brilliant stories speak for themselves.

Newspapers: HIRE ANITA NOW!

This is a huge loss. Sam is an incredibly talented news editor, who has been instrumental in openDemocracy recent editorial successes. Hire him!!

🚨finally, thanks to my brilliant editors, Ramzy Alwakeel and Sam Gelder

any lucrative and exciting opportunities, please drop me a DM x

🚨i hope that i can continue to report on the injustice that is the housing crisis in this country – like this piece revealing how social landlords were lobbying to raise rents on the most vulnerable tenants
opendemocracy.net/en/g15-housing…

🚨conflict of interest stories have been a big part of my job, including this story that weapons manufacturers and spy-tech firms were set to host events at labour conference
opendemocracy.net/en/labour-part…

🚨 i have enjoyed working in the lobby (despite it being a very strange place)

last year, i broke the story that a tory MP, then on bail for alleged rape, had been reselected to stand in his seat

opendemocracy.net/en/tory-mp-arr…

🚨i also revealed the involvement of two tory-linked PR firms in the inquiry, which ultimately led to the withdrawal of one of the firms from the process

opendemocracy.net/en/covid-19-in…

🚨i have led our coverage of the covid inquiry, and broke the story that the cabinet office was refusing to hand over boris johnson's whatsapps

but mostly, i'm proud of being able to share the stories of the bereaved
opendemocracy.net/en/covid-19-in…

🚨i am being made redundant, alongside many of my amazing colleagues at openDemocracy

it is a sad day for radical, not-for-profit media (but also this seems strangely inevitable in this industry)

here are some pieces i'm proud of:

I’m so grateful to all the people who trusted me to tell their stories, and to the amazing editors who made every piece sing. Thank you for everything Sam Gelder Ramzy Alwakeel Indra Warnes 💖

And finally, I spoke to Somali families in Tower Hamlets accusing the council of trying to force them out of the community by overlooking their urgent needs for social housing opendemocracy.net/en/social-hous…

When Tower Hamlets council tried to evict a heavily pregnant refugee weeks before her due date, she trusted me to tell her story. Following public pressure the council later withdrew its decision to evict her opendemocracy.net/en/pregnant-re…

While some councils boast about providing sanctuary for refugees, I wrote about how £1bn of public sector workers’ pension money has been invested in companies aiding Israel’s attacks on Gaza opendemocracy.net/en/palestine-s…