TellingPointy organizes coverage through accountable, named editorial desks. Each editor has a defined subject remit and verification responsibility. The newsroom directory gives readers a clear route to the people responsible for coverage, corrections, and editorial standards.
Editorial leadership
Helena Ward
Managing Editor | managing.editor@tellingpointy.com
Helena Ward is TellingPointy’s Managing Editor, coordinating daily coverage across eight specialist desks. The role is built around disciplined commissioning: finding the consequential angle, testing the strength of the source record, removing false certainty, and ensuring fast-moving stories remain readable without becoming shallow. Ward's editorial signature is clarity under pressure, strong cross-desk context, and corrections that are visible rather than quietly buried.
Specialist desk editors
Samira Rahman
World Editor | world.desk@tellingpointy.com
Samira Rahman leads TellingPointy’s World desk. Her coverage follows diplomacy, conflict, migration, security, climate, and global institutions through the decisions that change people's lives. Rahman's desk resists distant, map-level reporting: it identifies the actors, interests, evidence, and human consequences behind each development, distinguishes verified events from claims, and keeps historical context close enough to make breaking news intelligible. Read the World desk.
Eleanor Voss
Politics Editor | politics.desk@tellingpointy.com
Eleanor Voss leads TellingPointy’s Politics desk, where elections, government, law, and public policy are treated as systems of power rather than theatre. Voss focuses on what proposals actually do, who pays, which institutions can implement them, and where rhetoric departs from the public record. Her desk separates polling from prediction, allegation from evidence, and political strategy from measurable consequences. Read the Politics desk.
Marcus Lin
Business Editor | business.desk@tellingpointy.com
Marcus Lin leads TellingPointy’s Business desk, covering companies, markets, labour, trade, regulation, and the changing economics of everyday life. Lin looks past the day's price movement to examine incentives, balance-sheet realities, competitive pressure, and the effects corporate decisions have on workers and consumers. His desk treats company claims as claims, numbers as evidence that needs context, and market excitement as something to interrogate rather than amplify. Read the Business desk.
Maya Serrano
Technology Editor | technology.desk@tellingpointy.com
Maya Serrano leads TellingPointy’s Technology desk, covering artificial intelligence, platforms, software, hardware, cybersecurity, and digital policy. Serrano's work translates complex systems without sanding away the important details. Her desk asks who controls a technology, what data and incentives power it, where the real limits sit, and how a product or policy changes the balance among users, companies, governments, and the wider public. Read the Technology desk.
Iris Okafor
Science Editor | science.desk@tellingpointy.com
Iris Okafor leads TellingPointy’s Science desk, following research, space, climate, energy, and discovery with evidence at the centre. Okafor's desk examines study design, sample size, uncertainty, replication, and the difference between a preprint, a peer-reviewed result, and a settled scientific view. The aim is not to drain discovery of wonder, but to show readers exactly what is known, how it is known, and what remains open. Read the Science desk.
Nora Chen
Health Editor | health.desk@tellingpointy.com
Nora Chen leads TellingPointy’s Health desk, covering medicine, public health, biotechnology, wellbeing, and health policy with reader safety in mind. Chen's desk distinguishes association from causation, early findings from clinical guidance, and population-level evidence from individual advice. It reports benefits alongside risks, avoids miracle language, and makes uncertainty visible so readers can understand the evidence without mistaking journalism for personal medical care. Read the Health desk.
Lucia Moretti
Culture Editor | culture.desk@tellingpointy.com
Lucia Moretti leads TellingPointy’s Culture desk, exploring film, television, music, books, gaming, creators, and the media industries around them. Moretti treats culture as both art and infrastructure: a place where taste, technology, money, identity, and power meet. Her desk moves beyond publicity cycles to ask why a work resonates, how it was made and distributed, whose perspective is missing, and what its reception reveals about the moment. Read the Culture desk.
Daniel Okoye
Sports Editor | sports.desk@tellingpointy.com
Daniel Okoye leads TellingPointy’s Sports desk, covering competition, athletes, tactics, leagues, data, media, and the business surrounding the game. Okoye's desk starts with what happened, then explains why: the strategic adjustment, physical demand, institutional decision, or financial pressure behind the result. It treats athletes as people rather than assets, statistics as tools rather than decoration, and spectacle as worthy of both enthusiasm and scrutiny. Read the Sports desk.
How bylines work
Every category is assigned to a responsible desk editor, so articles carry a consistent byline, subject remit, contact address, and archive of related work. The TellingPointy Editorial Board maintains publication-wide standards; Helena Ward coordinates daily quality and corrections; each specialist editor applies the evidence and verification checks required by the subject.