Today in Focus Creators & Guests

Anushka Asthana is a journalist and former newsreader. She has presented The Guardian's daily podcast Today in Focus since 2018.

Presenter, Today in Focus // formerly: reporter, ObserverUK// Guardian women's editor + features desk

Anthony Onuchukwu is a composer, sound designer, and freelance audio producer. He produces podcasts, radio documentaries, and does sound design. He is half of the duo Nu Garçon.Onuchukwu is also a former medical doctor.Onuchukwu received his MBBS from Charles University and his M.A. in audio production from the University of Westminster.

Rachel Humphreys is the producer of Today in Focus Podcast, and co-founder of Sound Me Out.

Kate Connolly is a journalist who reports on Germany. She is currently the Guardian and Observer's Berlin correspondent.Previously, Connolly worked as a foreign correspondent for The Daily Telegraph and first contributed to the Guardian in 1997. She was a recipient of the Scott Trust bursary.

Oliver Milman is an Environment reporter at Guardian News and Media.

Naomi Klein is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses and criticism of corporate globalization and of capitalism.

Zoë Brock is a model and writer from New Zealand.

Stephen Buranyi is a science journalist and a visiting lecturer at the European Business School.

Samanth Subramanian is a journalist and author. Currently, he is a senior reporter covering the future of capitalism for Quartz magazine.Previously, Subramanian was a deputy editor for special projects at Mint, the Indian business newspaper, and a former sub-editor at CricInfo.com, a cricket news website. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian, and WIRED.Subramanian's first book, "Following Fish: Travels Around the Indian Coast," was published in 2010. His second book, "This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan Civil War," was published in 2015, and was nominated for the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize. His third book, "A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J. B. S. Haldane," was published in 2019.Subramanian received his B.A. in Journalism from Penn State University, and his M.A. in International Relations from Columbia University.

Sally Hayden is a journalist.

Ewen MacAskill is an investigative journalist. Before his retirement in 2018, he had worked for The Guardian for 22 years, first as chief political correspondent, then as Washington DC bureau chief, and finally as defence and intelligence correspondent.Before working for the Guardian, MacAskill was a political editor for The Scotsman. His first book, "

Jonathan Freedland is a journalist and columnist at The Guardian.

Claire Armitstead is a journalist and author. Currently, she is Associate Culture Editor at The Guardian, where she has worked since 1992. She also presents The Guardian's weekly books podcast.Armitstead is a cultural commentator on literature and the arts, and makes appearances on radio and television, as well as leading workshops and chairing literary events in the UK and at international festivals. She has judged literary competitions including the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, the PEN Pinter Prize and the Scotiabank Giller Prize.

Ana Adlerstein is a journalist and human rights defender working on migration rights. She is a member of the Network on Humanitarian Action, an international academic network created to promote capacity building and foster engagement on humanitarian issues; and has worked with immigrant and refugee communities in the United States, Greece and Mexico. She has also reported on human rights and migration issues for the United States-based independent non-profit media organisation NPR and the Guardian.

Lily Kuo is a reporter. Currently, she is the China bureau chief for The Washington Post.Previously, Kuo was the Beijing bureau chief for the Guardian. Before that she reported for Quartz in Kenya, Hong Kong and New York, and for Reuters in New York and Washington.Kuo received her B.A. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, an M.Sc. from Peking University, and an M.Sc. from The London School of Economics.

Laura Snapes is a music journalist, critic, and writer. Currently, she is Deputy Music Editor at The Guardian.Snapes's work has appeared in The Guardian, NME, Q, BBC, and Pitchfork. Her first book, "Phoenix: Liberté, Égalité, Phoenix!," was published in 2019.She produced the radio documentary "The Drop Our Boogie" for BBC Radio 4 in 2016, and an audio documentary called "Mother Tongue" for Audible's Pitch series in 2018.

Charan Ranganath is a researcher, professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, and director of the Memory and Plasticity Program at the University of California at Davis.

Malcolm Gladwell is a Canadian journalist, author, and public speaker known for his books and essays on social science, psychology, and human behavior. He has been a staff writer for New Yorker since 1996. Gladwell gained widespread recognition with his debut book, "The Tipping Point," followed by bestsellers like "Blink," "Outliers," and "David and Goliath." He is also the co-founder of the podcast company Pushkin Industries and hosts the "Revisionist History" podcast.