Have you ever wondered how our Daily newsletter comes into being? It lands in your inbox every day as a neat package: a short editorial followed by a dozen or so articles written by academics on everything from health and science to politics to the environment or arts. For you it is a fait accompli. For me, it’s a smouldering battlefield: all I can see are the traces of skirmishes and debates, compromises, mistakes, and missed opportunities.
Perhaps I should begin at the beginning. Each day at The Conversation starts with an editorial conference. We discuss the news of the day and think about how academics can shed light on it. The US Supreme Court is going to make a decision on the legality of President Donald Trump’s tariffs. Do we have a legal expert who can explain the issues at stake? Would it be better to find a business expert to talk about the global economic impacts? Or perhaps someone to write about geopolitics? Maybe all three? Or something else?
