What do you think should lead the news, and why? Watch this live recording of The News Meeting podcast, as special guests go head-to-head with Observer journalists, battling to pitch the top story of the day. Come along, have your say and share the stories you think we should be talking about.
Giles Whittell will be sitting in the editor’s chair. Vying the for the lead story against Observer journalists we have author and foreign policy advisor Chloe Dalton. Whittell is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Observer. Previously he was deputy editor and world affairs editor at Tortoise Media. He worked as a Times correspondent in LA, Moscow and Washington and along the way he’s written a few books including Bridge of Spies and a biography of snow. Chloe Dalton is a writer, political adviser and foreign policy specialist. She spent over a decade working in the UK Parliament and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Her first book, Raising Hare, was selected as Hay Festival Book of the Year 2024. Claudia Williams commissions and curates The Observer’s digital edition. She is an award-winning reporter specialising in long-form narrative features and investigations and host of The Observer’s flagship podcast The Slow Newscast. She joined Tortoise from the New York Times.
