Madhur Singh, founder of Climate Action Live, has issued a call for pitches from journalists, researchers, and practitioners across the climate ecosystem. The platform is seeking evidence-based stories focused on climate solutions, including AI and climate transition, grassroots innovation, emerging climate technologies, policy and accountability, and the global climate transition. Formats welcomed include reported features, investigations, explainers, profiles, data stories, and visual journalism. Interested contributors are invited to send a 200–300 word pitch, along with a reporting plan, key sources, and links to previous work, to info@climateaction.live. writing and news media.   

Ask a man who has just received the country's second-highest civilian honour what he would tell the next generation, and you expect a speech. P. Narayanan gave the opposite. "I'm not a big person to advise anyone," the 90-year-old told Influencing, with the flatness of someone who means it. Then, almost reluctantly, he allowed himself one line: journalists, he said, should try their best to bring the issues faced by ordinary people to light. That is the entire instruction. No talk of influence, access or legacy. Just the work, pointed outward, away from the journalist and toward the people the journalism is supposed to serve. For anyone who has watched Narayanan's six decades in Malayalam journalism, it is less a piece of advice than a description of what he has always done. Narayanan was conferred the Padma Vibhushan in the field of Literature and Education, one of only five recipients of the award this year. He was presented the honour at a ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan in Delh

Wednesday, 24 June 2026 #1  ·  Times City  ·  Breaking news / Investigative How Dad's Memory, Digital Trail Led Police To Suspect In 7 Hours By Abhay   ·   The Times of India  ·  Page 8 A 10-year-old homeless girl sleeping on a Delhi footpath with her family was abducted and murdered by cab driver Basu Kumar Singh, 29, who stalked her for 45 minutes before the assault. Police cracked the case in under seven hours by cross-referencing GPS latitude-longitude data from three cab aggregators with footage from 70 CCTV cameras to construct a digital trail of the suspect's vehicle. Singh was apprehended in west Delhi's Vikaspuri, confessed under interrogation, and was shot in the leg after attempting to snatch a police weapon during crime-scene reconstruction. The story deploys multiple layers of original reporting — father's firsthand account at the mortuary, granular reconstruction of the invest

Judy Ong joins LinkedIn APAC as senior communications manager LinkedIn has appointed Judy Ong as senior communications manager, APAC, with Ong relocating into the platform’s regional communications ranks after nearly four years at Disney. Announcing the move on LinkedIn, Ong said she was excited to “partner with APAC senior leaders and global teams to shape how we connect and inspire employees”.  Ong joins LinkedIn from The Walt Disney Company, where she most recently served as associate manager, corporate communications, Southeast Asia, following an earlier stint as senior executive in the same team.  Her background also includes agency roles at Edelman, FINN Partners Singapore and WE Communications, as well as an early marketing and communications internship at PwC Singapore. Natasha Perera joins Metricon as national PR and communications manager Metricon has appointed Natasha Perera as national PR and communications manager. Perera announced th

Australian Skeptics has donated $5,000 to the Science Journalists Association of Australia (SJAA), funding two extra grants in the association's 2026 program, president Jackson Ryan told Influencing. “The grants are worth $2,500 each…We want those to help develop stories about evidence-based decision making, about being sceptical and championing scepticism,” he said.  The donation lifts the 2026 pool to $13,000 across six grants. The four existing $2,000 awards include a student/early-career grant, a travel grant and a professional development grant. “The two reporting grants are really structured around a project. What you need to do is send us a pitch, essentially, and say why you should have this money and budget for that money.  “The professional development grant is around this idea of allowing you to get some money to skill up in some way, whether that's with a course with The Economist, or maybe you need to go to a conference, for instance. Similarly, travel ca

Greens deal locks in Labor’s tax overhaul — with NDIS strings attached Labor has struck a parliamentary deal with the Greens to pass contentious negative gearing and capital gains tax changes, but the price includes concessions on the government’s NDIS overhaul—winding back ministerial powers and extending scrutiny via a longer Senate inquiry. The package sharpens the political fight over housing, superannuation settings and welfare sustainability, with Coalition and crossbench positioning now central to what happens next in the Senate and future budgets. Covered by: Daily Telegraph, The West Australian, The Australian, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Australian Financial Review, Australian Financial Review, Australian Financial Review, The Australian. NSW Budget bets on transport relief — while holding the line on spending The Minns government’s pre-election budget is pitched as cost-of-living help with a $100 rego rebate, Opal fare caps and othe