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- Parasocial relationships in the age of social media
May 6, 2026 · Ananya Bhargava
- Personal promotion and the role of AI
April 29, 2026 · Reuben Brown
- How corporate pressure and silence hurt reporting
April 15, 2026 · Quỳnh Lê
- Reading a national budget in ninety minutes
March 31, 2026 · Daniel Osei
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Parasocial relationships in the age of social media
Each week our reporters unpack the economics behind a story that everyone else covered as politics.
Small Business
Newly retailers promote community and honest business
A cycle of local first-time owners is rethinking storefront economics, from shared leases to co-operative buying.
August 20, 2026
A room for readers
A bookshop with a lending desk is quietly outperforming the chain two blocks away.
August 19, 2026
The corner shop that became a bank
Informal credit keeps a neighbourhood liquid — and regulators awake.
August 18, 2026
Markets
Prediction markets go mainstream, but is it investing or gambling?
Volumes have tripled in a year. Regulators are still deciding what exactly is being traded.
August 20, 2026
Sports is business: the financial undercurrents
Aspiring sports journalists should understand who actually owns the league.
August 18, 2026
Betting on the future: the boom in contracts
A thin market with thick incentives, and very little disclosure.
August 17, 2026
Investigations: How They Did It
Reporters traced the fentanyl supply chain in a groundbreaking investigation
Two years of shipping manifests, customs data and a single leaked invoice held the story together.
August 16, 2026
In “Farmed”, public health humanises the fight
A regional team documented an industry acting with impunity.
August 15, 2026
Reporters reveal how public health consolidation harms patients
Records requests in six districts produced one damning spreadsheet.
August 14, 2026
Migration
Migrants build their own dream with a small business
Remittances flow both ways now, and the ledger tells a different story than the politics.
August 15, 2026
Migration is now part of your beat
Labour, housing and logistics desks all end up at the same border.
August 14, 2026
How business reporters can localise the story
Start with payroll data, not the press conference.
August 13, 2026
Social Responsibility
Insurance
Energy
Sports
How a franchise chases profit from the hill on
Aug 19, 2026
The business of a team, stage by stage
Aug 14, 2026
Health Care
How to report on generic copies in health care
Aug 15, 2026
Entertainment
Summer reading list: field notes from a newsroom
Aug 19, 2026
