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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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Iranian women’s national team players walk towards their bus on the Gold Coast.

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
Jordan Baker, the Herald’s new editor

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 Mountbatten-Windsor has been released after more than 10 hours in police custody. File image.

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
We believe it is important not to just remember how the victims of the Bondi shooting died.

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
Joggers and walkers along the Farm Cove seawall.

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
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Ruby Arnott, 10, prepares for her first day at Newington College last Wednesday.

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
Beaches from Manly to Palm Beach remain closed on the northern beaches.

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
The parents and cousin of murder victim Matilda, 10, at a vigil on Tuesday at the Bondi Pavilion memorial, near where Sunday’s terrorist attack took place.

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
Throughout the expenses fiasco of the past week, which has cut through like nothing else, Anthony Albanese and his ministers have been remarkably tin-eared.

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