Why subscribe?

I’m a journalist/TV news presenter with 25 years’ experience working for some of the world’s leading news networks, including Al Jazeera English, Sky News and the BBC. I am one of the very few second-language English TV news presenters on the main anglophone networks. That, along with always having lived and worked between different nations, cultures and languages, gives me a different insight and take on the stories I cover.

In this newsletter I focus on:

• The impact that using English as the global language has on the international news narrative and on how we see the world

• Fascism, and how different cultures relate to it depending on their history, especially between my native Italy and my adoptive home, the UK

• The hidden struggles (and rare benefits too!) that being a second-language English speaker in an English-dominated world can bring, and how to try to overcome them

• Per la newsletter in ITALIANO, scegliete l’opzione ‘News con l’accento straniero’ sul sito Substack e vi arriveranno le emails specificamente scritte per un pubblico italiano

I started this newsletter in 2022, and you can take a look at most of the archive for free by heading to the Substack website.

If you like the look of it, I hope you’ll consider joining as either a free or paid subscriber.

All the best,

Barbara