Portfolio
I’m a freelance journalist with 4+ years of experience, reporting on digital technology, inequality and social change. I’m formerly Dazed’s political book columnist. To commission me or chat about my work, email me at adelewalton99@gmail.com
The i paper
We are scrolling towards a climate crisis (Also in print)
‘My boss is spying on me’: The rise in companies recording employees’ every move (Also in print)
How TikTok and Instagram made reading books an unnecessarily competitive sport
Big Issue
The Post Office Scandal proves why workers’ needs must be put ahead of AI and technology
How communities are tackling the digital divide
From online deals to job searches: how digital exclusion makes the cost of living even higher
Teenagers are having to provide for their families as the cost of living crisis hits
Metro
I thought I’d get the job. Then I found out my interviewer was an AI chatbot
Befriending an older person taught me the meaning of digital exclusion
I thought nothing would help my anxiety - until I discovered DJing
The Independent
Lockdown has helped me find a way to deal with my body dysmorphia
I thought I had a healthy approach to influencing - until now
Guardian US
Interview: The job applicants shut out by AI
Dazed
How to stop social media ruining your self esteem
Green is the new Red: why young people are turning to the Green Party
How sex workers are fighting the cost of living crisis
Inside the growing demand for permanent make-up removal
Q&A with Vicky Spratt, Journalist and Author of Tenants
i-D
10 books to read when you’re considering logging off
Computer Weekly
Creative workers say livelihoods threatened by generative AI
Dazed - Book Column 2023-2024
All the books you should read in 2023
10 books about love to read this Valentine’s Day
The fight for trans rights is an anti-patriarchal fight - Angela Saini
We should be critical about the dreams that are sold to us - Kieran Yates
‘We really need to revolt’: inside Britain’s hidden care crisis - Emily Kenway
This new book examines whether capitalism really is driving us all mad - Micha Frazer-Caroll
The harrowing reality of life in solitary confinement - Damascus James
Naomi Klein on why everything feels so uncanny right now - Naomi Klein
Beauty culture is a reflection of our political culture - Emma Dabiri
How eyeliner become a symbol of political resistance - Zahra Hankir
How does misogyny differ for trans women? - Jules Gill-Peterson
Unshrinking: how to detox from fatphobia - Kate Manne
Tribune
After Covid, Sankara’s Lessons on Debt Are as Relevant as Ever
How Structural Adjustment Paved the Way for the Covid Crisis
How Britain’s Universities Are Complicit in Israel’s Occupation
Vaccine Holidays Are a Symbol of the New Covid Inequality
Capitalism Won’t Give Us the Development We Need
The Quiet Disappearance of Britain’s Public Libraries
The Dark Truth About Dubai’s Influencer Marketing
The Face
Gen Z are side-hustling their way out of the cost-of-living crisis
The Strike Diaries: a week in the life of a trainee teacher
The Strike Diaries: a week in the life of an NHS nurse
The Strike Diaries: a week in the life of a train cleaner
The Strike Diaries: a week in the life of a junior doctor
The Strike Diaries: Why Croydon’s homelessness department went on strike
The Strike Diaries: Why university staff are still on strike
The New Arab
Beyond shadowbanning: Facebook posts can’t liberate Palestine
If journalist's aren’t protected, free speech means nothing
70 years on Mau Mau history reminds us of the British monarchy's violence
Women are absorbing the costs of food inflation worldwide
It’s time to ditch the developed versus developing dichotomy
Mashable
The women fighting to make women and girls safe in the digital age
New Internationalist
Social media users are bypassing censorship on Palestine
How sex workers are fighting for their digital safety (in print, no link)
The Lead
Closing train ticket offices: a new disability barrier
gal-dem
How to fight gentrification in the ends? Privatise the Mandem & the short film based on my article
12 riotous books that radicalised me in 2021
Huck
Amazon’s surveillance culture is ‘breaking’ it’s workers
How Gypsies were left behind amid the pandemic
The Wages for Housework Campaign is still vital
Author Q&A: Reclaiming the anti-racist movement from capitalism
Vice
Gambling and the Cost of Living Crisis: A Perfect Storm in the Making
Refinery 29
Grieving on Social Media Made Me Lonelier Than Ever
Wellcome Collection
Life lessons across the digital divide
The Guardian
openDemocracy
Putin’s invasion of Ukraine didn’t cause the food crisis. Capitalism did.
Jacobin
The Revolutionary Feminism of Thomas Sankara
mixmag
Spiritual storytelling: Charisse C’s fluid amapiano sets are building a bridge between continents
Novara Media
This Year’s the World Transformed Is the Perfect Opportunity for the Left to Rebuild Itself
Progressive International (Translated works in German, Turkish, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese)
Putin’s invasion of Ukraine didn’t cause the food crisis. Capitalism did.
Tidningen Global (Translated works in Swedish)
Putin’s invasion of Ukraine didn’t cause the food crisis. Capitalism did.
Jacobin Brasil (Translated works in Portuguese)
Vaccine Holidays Are a Symbol of the New Covid Inequality
Hyphen
My family’s olive groves are a legacy passed down through generations
Verso
Debt Justice
shado mag
Cashing in on body image: how body dysmorphia is a capitalist issue
Polyester Zine
The Post-Scroll Guilt Phenomenon: Being Conscious of Absent Minded Consumption
Off-Chance
10 strong female leads that aren’t girlbosses
MediaCat Magazine