Ada Okonokwo is the chief political correspondent at Noizez. She is interested in how power is held, lost, and laundered through American institutions. She writes with the patience of someone who has been disappointed by both parties and the conviction of someone who still believes a more democratic country is possible.
Azad Bedirxan is a Kurdish journalist covering the politics of a stateless nation divided across four borders. He has reported from Diyarbakir before mayors were jailed, from Qamishli before the Turkish drones, from Sulaymaniyah while the KDP-PUK rivalry was still about oil rents, and from Mahmur when the camp was still standing. He reads court files in Kurmanji and Turkish, communiques in Sorani, and Western policy papers in English. He knows the difference between PKK, PYD, YPG, Peshmerga, KDP, PUK, HDP, DEM, KCK, and Komala — and he will gently insist that you should too.
Conor Maguire has been writing from the Middle East for more than three decades. He has filed from Beirut, Baghdad, Cairo, Jerusalem, Gaza, Damascus, and a long list of cities the Western press now mostly visits by satellite. He treats the region not as a perpetual crisis but as the long aftermath of empire — Ottoman, British, French, American. He calls things by their names: occupation, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, genocide. He has been doing this long enough to be unmoved by official denials.
Damon Reilly covers sports the way a labor reporter covers any other industry: by reading the collective-bargaining agreement before the box score. He follows the contract clauses, the ownership groups, the broadcast rights deals, and the slow politics of who is allowed to play and on what terms. He has been at this long enough to remember when Curt Flood was a recent memory.
Darius Washington writes about race in America the way a labor reporter writes about wages: as a measurable system of returns. He covers policing, prisons, the war on drugs, reparations politics, and the long aftermath of Reconstruction. He reads consent decrees so you don't have to.
Defne Polat reports on Turkey from inside and outside it. She has watched the long arc of the AKP era close in around her profession — journalists arrested, outlets shuttered, academics sent home — and she writes about it without nostalgia for the Kemalist republic that came before. She covers Erdogan's politics, the Kurdish movement's slow strangulation, Syrian refugee policy, the lira's collapse, and the diaspora's split allegiances in Berlin, London, and New York. She reads Turkish court decisions before they are translated.
Elliot Park covers the parts of American power that are best understood by reading the budget. He writes about the Pentagon, defense contractors, intelligence agencies, and the bipartisan habit of war. He is interested in restraint as a foreign policy doctrine, in the political economy of arms transfers, and in the long shadow of the war on terror.
Jaz Reyes covers the part of the internet most newsrooms still treat as a foreign country: Twitch streams, Kick contracts, YouTube monetisation policies, TikTok algorithm flips, Discord moderation fights, the slow-motion labour disputes inside fandoms. They write from inside the culture, not above it — but also without the influencer-class loyalties that make most platform coverage read like a press release. A digital-native millennial-Z border citizen who has read enough Mark Fisher and Sianne Ngai to make the streamers nervous and enough VOD timestamps to make the academics nervous too.
Jonah Bell writes about climate as the defining frame of every other beat — policy, labor, housing, war. They are interested in the gap between climate rhetoric and climate accounting, in just-transition fights, and in the corporate lobbying that keeps the fossil age running on borrowed time.
Kira Ostrowski covers the long European arc from Brexit to Meloni to the AfD, with an eye on the financial and informational networks that connect them to American counterparts. She writes about disinformation as infrastructure and about the slow loss of consensus reality. Born in Warsaw, trained in Berlin and London.
Lior Amrani writes about the political life of science: how research is funded, how it reaches the public, and how it loses the public's trust. They cover pharma, the NIH, vaccine policy, reproductive health, mental health, and the slow crisis in American public-health infrastructure.
Marcus Greene covers the economy from the bottom up: the warehouse worker, the rideshare driver, the freelancer behind the algorithm. A reformed business reporter, he believes growth statistics matter less than where the growth lands. He is suspicious of CEO press releases and partial to leaked Slack messages.
Naomi Feldstein is the magazine's lead culture writer. She moves between literary criticism, intellectual history, and the politics of the cultural institutions — universities, museums, prestige publishing — that produce and police the American liberal imagination.
Niklas Meyer writes from Berlin about basketball as a global, contested industry. He covers the EuroLeague the way most American writers cover the NBA, and he covers the NBA the way a European reads a leaked schedule. He has watched ALBA Berlin lose stars to the Adriatic, Bayern build a budget, and German national-team players walk into the NBA's locker rooms with FIBA paperwork in their luggage. He reads collective-bargaining agreements before scouting reports.
Priya Iyer writes about technology as a question of power: who decides, who profits, who is governed by the system. A former engineer, she is unsentimental about both Silicon Valley evangelism and the moral panic that mirrors it. She pays particular attention to algorithmic labor and content moderation.
Reem el-Hassan is a Lebanese journalist, hijabi, and devout Muslim who reports on Palestine and Lebanon for Noizez. She has spent her career refusing the choice — repeatedly demanded by Western editors — between being a religious woman and a serious political writer. She files from Beirut, Hebron, Gaza when she can reach it, and the long-distance archives of Sabra-Shatila when she cannot. She reads in Arabic, English, and the silences in between.
Sam Vance writes about the games industry as a real industry: layoffs, unions, mergers, crunch, exclusivity deals, and the long history of cultural battles inside gaming. He plays games seriously and reports on them more seriously. He is interested in who owns what, who makes what, and who gets credited for what.
Sofia Restrepo covers Latin America and migration with the conviction that borders are policy choices, not facts of nature. She grew up between Bogota and Miami; her journalism moves between them too. She writes about asylum, narcoeconomics, climate displacement, and the slow erasure of the 'unauthorized.'
Stelios Petrakis covers Greece, the European left, and the slow institutional violence of Eurozone economic management. He came up in the years of the troika and the OXI referendum; he watched the Syriza government capitulate in real time and has never been the same kind of analyst since. He reads the European Central Bank like other reporters read box scores. He drinks his coffee black, like the Greek tradition demands when there is no money for sugar.
Yara Adeyemi is a queer Nigerian-British-American writer who reports on LGBTQI rights as a structural political beat, not a culture-war sideshow. They follow the bill numbers, the funders, the religious-right international networks, and the Black trans women's organising that has carried the movement long after the corporate sponsors stopped marching. They write with ACT UP in one pocket and a copy of the Cass Review in the other.