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My editorial experience spans leadership roles and collaborative efforts in student media, where I’ve sharpened my skills in content curation, team management, and strategic direction.
I have recently taken on a role as a legislative reporting intern at The Connecticut Mirror. In the role I am tasked with crafting temporal, focused and relevant by-lines on issues that relate to the Connecticut state legislature. This includes areas such as the judicial and corrections systems, healthcare and housing and planning development. I have also had the opportunity to interview lawmakers in both the house and the senate on their positions on these issues, whilst attending press conference where the state governor will address the state media and give comments on government policies.
As Travel Editor at The Warwick Boar, I led a team of deputy editors and a sub editor, overseeing both the digital and print editions of the newspaper. I led the creation of compelling headlines and coordinated social media engagement, ensuring our content connected with the university community. Additionally, I worked closely with the editorial board to produce articles that addressed key student issues in finance, climate, and current affairs.
At The Daily Campus and Yale Daily News, I contributed by drafting by-lines on global and political topics, collaborating with editorial teams to refine articles for both print and digital publication. My editorial approach emphasizes clarity, coherence, and a commitment to presenting diverse perspectives. This blend of leadership and hands-on editing experience underpins my dedication to producing polished, impactful journalism.
Junior Legislative Reporter
The Connecticut Mirror
"James is a junior journalism-major at the University of Connecticut who is currently participating in the full year exchange program, coming from the University of Warwick with a joint honors history and political science degree.
Born in New York but raised in London, James uses his dual nationality to craft a unique perspective on current affairs in the U.S. He is a section editor for The Warwick Boar, a contributing writer at The Daily Campus, and co-host of The Atlantic Hour, a U.S. political podcast that reviews the most prescient news and policy developments in the nation on a weekly basis. James has also worked as a broadcast intern for The BBC."
Daily Campus | The Party Is Nearly Over: The Precarious Fate of The Democratic Party in the US
On Nov. 6, 2024, the Democratic Party lost the presidential election by 86 electoral college votes. This was a landmark election for the Republican Party, one that has often been described as reminiscent of the 1968 election. This was a landmark election in which Nixon won the electoral college vote by over 110 votes, despite only having a 0.7% (500,000 vote) advantage over the Democratic candidate.
President Joe Biden speaks during a ceremony lighting the National Christmas Tree on the Ellipse near the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Following this loss, the Democratic Party was in a state of disarray, and it would need a period of self-reflection to overcome that. Foreign policy escalation in Vietnam was marked as the reason for Johnson’s decline in popularity following a soaring election victory in 1964.This can be paralleled with some of President Joe Biden’s foreign policy decisions around the Israel-Gaza conflict.
All this is to say, almost 60 years later, the Democrats still have not learned the lessons of the past. Former President Donald Trump increased his support across almost every demographic, while Vice President Kamala Harris notably trailed a lot of President Joe Biden’s numbers from the 2020 election. This was especially true among minority voters, who voted for the former president in record numbers.
Now, the Democratic Party has lost its footing in the face of the Republican Party’s victory. The party will need to go through an intense period of introspection in order to find itself again...
The Boar | UK General Election 2024 Conclusion: Keir Starmer's Landslide Victory
n 4 July 2024, Sir Keir Starmer delivered what was perceived as a historic win for Labour. The party’s accumulation of 412 seats against a pithy 121 seats for the Conservatives – a 174-seat majority – certainly suggests a radical overhaul from the 2019 general election. Many in the UK look forward to a period of greater political stability following the turbulence that that set in after 14 years of Tory-led government. However, it may be argued that the new Labour government is not as strong in Parliament as initially perceived.
"A month on […] they are becoming more immediately aware of just how difficult achieving change will be."
In his campaign, the new Prime Minister centred a call to action among the British public around one word: ‘change’. A month on, with a new government elected and a new cabinet in place, they are becoming more immediately aware of just how difficult achieving change will be. As PM, Starmer has been quick to criticise the proclaimed “mountain of mess” the conservatives have left in key areas such as healthcare, defence spending, and environmental protection.
The Daily Campus | The Realism of UConn's Carbon Neutrality Goals by 2030
The prospect of UConn becoming completely carbon neutral by 2030, a goal set out by President Radenka Maric, is one that needs to be questioned more starkly. The university is quick to address itself as “an international model of sustainability”. However, many of its bold claims are not met with any significant infrastructure to support them.
Two years ago, the University had assured students it would go carbon-neutral by the year 2030 and reach a Carbon Net Zero by 2040. Now it has pushed this goal back to 2050. The Climate Action Plan (CAP) set out by the university is one that, in most cases, overpromises and underdelivers.
Within the plan are ‘broad strokes’ headers such as maximising efficiency and reducing food waste. However, looking deeper, the strategies to actually implement this are, like much of the document itself, empty.
The University of Connecticut commissioned a fuel cell power plant on its Depot Campus in April, 2012, that will supply the campus with clean and efficient energy, cooling, and heating for years to come. Photo from the UConn Office of Sustainability website.
In its Sustainable Action Plan, one that it claims will facilitate carbon neutrality by 2030, the university harks of initiatives such as the Depot Campus Fuel Cell and the Northeast Hydrogen Hub. Latching on to these more eye-catching features ignores some of the fundamental systemic issues such as extensive water and energy usage, as well as food waste, that the university has been wilfully sidestepping...
The Boar| UK-US Relations: The Death of The 'Special Relationship'?
The term ‘special relationship’ has been carved out by a long and relatively well-trodden history. The term was originally coined by former Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the wake of the Second World War. In a world where a victorious Britain had defeated Nazi Germany principally due to their alliance with the US, it was easy to see the need to promote a special relationship between the two nations.
The relationship continued to simmer throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, reaching a particularly warm point in the 1980s under the dynamism and chemistry of the relationship between Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President Ronald Raegan. Thatcher is reported to have called Raegan “the second most important man in my life,” after her husband.
The election of President Trump was set to rewrite the foreign policy rulebook not just in Europe but around the globe, raising concerns about the durability of the special relationship
Even into the 21st Century, the special relationship maintained momentum. The new millennium brought forth a changing age and uniquely solidified the relationship between President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair. George Bush described Tony Blair as “a friend. He is a friend of the American people and he is a friend of mine”.
However, in the past decade, the special relationship has become more tepid. 14 consecutive years of confused conservative premiership tested the strong foundations that had been in place near the end of President Obama’s second term. The election of President Trump was set to rewrite the foreign policy rulebook not just in Europe but around the globe, raising concerns about the durability of the special relationship. This was characterised by the interactions between Trump and Prime Minister Theresa May in 2017. Theresa May described some of the rhetoric that Trump expressed as “totally unacceptable”. Such open condemnation paved the way for frosty relations between the two countries towards the end of the decade, only partially reversed by Prime Minister Boris Johnson...
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