Congratulations Ben! Very well deserved 👏🏻

Ramzy is brilliant. Loved working with him. Brimming with ideas, razor-sharp editing skills & a true and fearless advocate for original & distinctive journalism - plus super supportive.
Also very funny and a thoroughly nice person. Hire him!

UCU sends its full solidarity to Open Democracy staff faced with the sack. Their brilliant journalism has ensured openDemocracy has been one of the media outlets that actually holds power to account.

Brilliant colleagues at openDemocracy UK have been laid off. Ramzy Ramzy Alwakeel, the best editor you can have, honors in this thread the amazing work of Adam Bychawski ruby lott-lavigna Lou Ferreira Anita Mureithi Sam Gelder Adam Ramsay. This is the journalism you need. Hire them!

Ramzy is one of - if not the - best news editors I’ve worked with, and was key to what we built at huffpost (for those with long memories!). He builds inclusive, impactful teams and gets the best out of reporters, especially junior ones, helping to craft their work

Ruby has broken some incredible investigative stories over recent years.
She has sadly just been made redundant.

She'd be a great hire for anyone ruby lott-lavigna

👍🏼👍🏼

Let's send her some support 👍🏼👍🏼

Thanks to all of you so much for sending so many lovely messages about our wonderful team and how much you valued everyone's work. They really, genuinely, have made me feel so much better. ❤️

This is a huge loss. Sam is an incredibly talented news editor, who has been instrumental in openDemocracy recent editorial successes. Hire him!!

I'm absolutely devastated that Anita is going.

She's one of the most insanely talented journalists I've ever had the pleasure of working with. Her brilliant stories speak for themselves.

Newspapers: HIRE ANITA NOW!

Ruby is the BEST lobby correspondent.

Absolutely devastated that she's being made redundant, along with so many others.

No doubt she'll be snapped up immediately.

Look at this amazing cuttings list and offer Anita a job immediately. We desperately need more reporters like her who don't just repeat the same lines as everyone else but actually want to reveal how the changing world affects real people - especially those at its sharp end.

Ruby is a star, a rare lobby journalist who hasn't been sucked in by the cult. She consistently prioritises the voices of those without a platform & has more economic savvy in cutting to the heart of a story than reporters at much bigger titles. Hire her if you have a brain!!

I'm really sorry to hear this. It's a huge loss and dark day for openDemocracy, journalism & those affected. Ramzy Alwakeel is a great editor and a pleasure to work with. I greatly benefited from his support and learned a lot. Thank you. Solidarity.

Gutted to see so many reporters made redundant openDemocracy. Was a pleasure working with Ramzy Alwakeel Adam Bychawski Anita Mureithi ruby lott-lavigna. They are fantastic at what they do. If you're looking for talented editors and journalists, they should be your first call.

Not everyone who's read Sam's crucial work at the Hackney Gazette, Big Issue, HuffPost and openDemocracy will know it - because news editors are largely invisible to the public. But he's one of the very very best there is, and he'll make your newsroom *much* better.

Ramzy is honestly the best of editors and any newsroom would be crazy to pass up an opportunity to hire him

Ramzy is the best editor I've ever worked with, bar none.

He's the absolute powerhouse of the newsroom - and has transformed openDemocracy's editorial output into a phenomenal success.

Along with other colleagues being made redundant, he will be massively, massively missed.