Joshi Herrmann

1 month ago | millmediaco.uk | Joshi Herrmann

Mill Media is looking for freelance editors who have experience working on long and complex stories, including narrative long reads, investigative stories and observational features. They will be working with our team of staff writers and editors to commission and edit stories from start to finish, so they need to be great at guiding writers and sharpening up ideas as well as improving drafts.

2 months ago | manchestermill.co.uk | Mollie Simpson |Joshi Herrmann

Editor’s note: Today’s story is the latest in our investigation into the University of Greater Manchester. Because it contains allegations of possible corruption involving senior figures at the university, we handed the details of what we are reporting to Greater Manchester Police on Monday evening. If you know anything that could help us, please get in touch.

2 months ago | the-londoner.co.uk | Joshi Herrmann

I’m on the phone to a friend, a recent mother, talking about children’s nurseries. Specifically, we’re talking about the recent trend for nurseries across London to be snapped up by a breed of investors known as “private equity” — hard-charging capitalists known for ruthlessly maximising businesses in underperforming industries and selling the assets at a massive profit. “I personally would never send my kid to a private equity nursery, just out of principle,” she says.

Jan 15, 2025 | manchestermill.co.uk | Joshi Herrmann

Dear Millers – 2024 is in its dog hours and the Met Office map is covered in yellow and amber (“Strong westerly winds...some travel disrupted”), so I have a captive audience for an end of year editor’s note. This is supposed to be a day when we reflect on the year just been, and I’m thinking about a weekend in the Spring when I needed help and I knew where to find it.

Jan 15, 2025 | manchestermill.co.uk | Joshi Herrmann

Sometimes it’s impossible to trace where an idea originated, and sometimes it’s very easy. The idea that something incredibly dark happened in Oldham – that the local authorities and police covered up the mass grooming of white girls by Asian men, and that only a public inquiry can get to the bottom of it — began six years ago, and it began with a man called Raja Miah.