Last week, we had the opportunity to join a live Zoom talk with Nic Robertson, the International Diplomatic Editor at CNN, whose career has spanned from the collapse of Cold-War Europe to the current battlefields of the Middle East. Over the course of an hour, Robertson spoke about how journalism is changing, how trust in the news is under pressure, and what it really means to report from the front lines. A Career Spanning Over 30 years Robertson joined CNN in around 1990, an

The conflict between Israel and Palestine has completely taken over the media. One of the biggest religious battles of our modern time, this conflict has been escalating this summer to what could almost be considered the third world war. Whilst we cannot ignore the role that politics and historical factors play, we mustn't forget religion is a source of conflict all over the world, one very under-acknowledged example being the largely silent genocide in Nigeria. Christians al

Tell us a bit about yourself and your background. Where did you study, what course did you take? I studied at the Complutense, and the only course available was Fine Art, and Fine Art I did! You didn’t choose a specific course within Fine Art straight away. It was a five-year degree: years one, two, and three were general, and then in the fourth year you chose a speciality. Some people didn’t specialise at all; they did a bit of everything. I leaned naturally towards painting

Why do you open TikTok for just five minutes, and suddenly realise half an hour has passed? It’s not just bad time management; it’s part of the business model used by social media platforms known as the attention economy. This term refers to how platforms are made addictive in order to profit off the user’s attention by selling it to advertisers. In this system, your time is the product, and platforms are designed to take as much of it. The Dopamine Trap TikTok’s addictive de