Note From The Editor
Inside the conflict zone: How our team navigated war-torn Beirut
David Crowe and Kate Geraghty drew on their considerable experience and empathy, as well as trusted support teams on the ground and back home, to bring readers stories of life on the ground in Lebanon.
- Jordan Baker
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Courage and heartbreak: The story that united – and chilled – Australia
For those of us who have never experienced authoritarianism, it was distressing to watch its dark hand stretch to our shores as the members of Iran’s women’s soccer team faced a terrible choice.
- Jordan Baker
Our new editor’s pledge to readers
The first edition of the Herald promised to adhere to the principles of “candour, honesty and honour”. As our new editor takes the reins 195 years later, the same principles remain the newsroom’s north star.
- Jordan Baker
Andrew’s arrest shows the power of a 24-hour newsroom
When a story as big as the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor breaks, the Herald newsroom is at its best.
- Liam Phelan
Fifteen people died at Bondi - this is how they lived
The Herald has published a special tribute to the 15 people who lost their lives in the Bondi terrorist shooting - sharing deeply moving accounts not of how they died, but how they lived.
- Nick Ralston
Here’s to bold and beautiful ideas to help transform our city
The Sydney Summit is an opportunity to imagine a better city that will take us into the future.
- Liam Phelan
New shoes, old debates and the great kindergarten gamble
From education to politics and the NRL, there’s plenty to talk about as Sydney heads back to school and work.
- Nick Ralston
Sydney’s week of horror and healing
Shark attacks, a political rupture and a horrific triple killing dominated the news this week. But in the Herald newsroom, there was a glimmer of good news.
- Liam Phelan
Our city is forever changed, but there is some light in the darkness
As Sydney tries to find a way to heal from the Bondi shootings, there is some comfort in the acts of courage and selflessness that have emerged.
- Nick Ralston
Fires, funerals and MPs’ expenses keep the Herald newsroom humming
It’s been a giant week of news as the stories keep coming.
- Liam Phelan