Rebekah Evans, The Week UK
Rebekah Evans joined The Week as newsletter editor in 2023. She is a regular on The Week Unwrapped podcast, and has also written on subjects ranging from Ukraine and Afghanistan to fast fashion and "brotox". As newsletter editor, she writes The Week's Global Digital newsletter each week, examining pressing political, social and economic issues from around the world, and also curates the Prosper newsletter.
Rebekah started her career at Reach plc, where she cut her teeth on news, before pivoting into personal finance at the height of the pandemic and cost-of-living crisis. Social affairs is another of her passions, covering topics from Grenfell to the NHS and mental health. She has interviewed people from across the world and from all walks of life. Rebekah has also written for publications including The Guardian, The Week magazine, the Press Association and local newspapers. She decided to become a journalist while still at school. While reading English at King's College London, she juggled a role as editor-in-chief of the university newspaper, Roar News, with moonlighting as an executive producer for the university's flagship student political radio show. After graduating, she completed an NCTJ with the Press Association. Rebekah can be found on Twitter at @rebekah_ne.
Latest articles by Rebekah Evans, The Week UK
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Could AI find alien life before us?
Today's Big Question New machine-learning system could tell the origin of samples found on Earth and elsewhere
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Panda-monium: China vs. the West
Under the Radar The end of panda diplomacy has been viewed as a consequence of increasingly frosty China-US relations
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'Orwellian nightmare’: passport database to be used to catch thieves
Talking Point Policing minister wants to use personal data to crack down on shoplifting crime wave
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Nuclear drills: Putin urged to test atomic bomb
Speed Reads Russian rescue workers practise evacuating citizens as nuclear expert urges 'show of force'
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The fight for Caribbean beaches
Under the Radar Colonial laws and new resorts could block residents from access
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Russia and Ukraine face off in The Hague over genocide case
Kyiv is hoping court will rule Russia's actions illegal but Moscow wants the case dismissed
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Indigenous Voice referendum: is this Australia's 'Brexit moment'?
The referendum on Indigenous rights may be a moment of reckoning for the 'open wounds of nationhood'
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Inside the luxury bulletproof train taking Kim Jong Un to Russia
The Explainer The North Korean leader has continued the tradition of train travel established by his father
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What Mexico’s first female president might mean for the ‘femicide nation’
feature The Latin American country is grappling with misogynist crime amid a backdrop of progress for women in politics
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