Kara Dolman

Hi! I’m Kara, a senior content editor and journalist who specialises in features. From Wales, I now live in London with my husband and two daughters. Currently Deputy Editor, Life & Trends at Newsweek, I've previously: edited the Evening Standard's Lifestyle section, ran The Sun's features desk and covered Fabulous magazine's Dep Ed role. I've also written for publications including Lonely Planet, Stylist and The Times. From opinion pieces to profiles, interviews to news investigations, plus print/web editing, this is a selection of my work. You can click through to my LinkedIn profile here.

I joined Newsweek at the end of 2023 to oversee a diverse range of online lifestyle, trends and features content. While my reactive short-form ideas and viral spots have driven millions in traffic to our website, my long reads have been selected for Newsweek’s premier magazine too. Digital-to-print features include everything from an article on why top universities are offering courses studying Taylor Swift to a breakdown of the go-big experiences not be missed this year. Click through to see just some of what I’ve been editing so far.

For Stylist, a freelance piece on how returning to my local lido has improved my body image - because it’s been a reminder IRL female bodies are in sharp contrast to the homogeneous images of women we’ve become accustomed to online.

I previously edited all campaigns and features for multiple award-winning Fabulous - then the UK’s most read women’s magazine with around one million weekly readers - including long reads. These ranged in topic from an article looking at the feminist driven future of virtual reality porn to a news report into how gay women are denied fertility treatment on the NHS. Click through for a selection.

I interviewed Boris Johnson, then Mayor of London, for The Sun about his Olympic legacy, political aspirations and - of course - famous hair.

A comment piece for the London Evening Standard on why many millennials have given up the dream of getting on the capital's property ladder.

A feature on the rise of 'social egg freezing' for the London Evening Standard lifestyle section I edited: London Life - an up to eight-page daily mix of fashion, beauty, columns, culture, food / drink, health, interviews, tech and work pieces.

As I started cycling to work, I wrote a comment piece for the London Evening Standard on the war between bikes and cars on the capital’s roads.

As the influential designer responsible for reviving the French fashion house gave a rare insight into her life, I profiled the Harrow-on-the-Hill girl who reinvented the way modern women dress. For the London Evening Standard.

Snakes, Shakespeare and snide digs at everyone from Katy Perry to Kanye West, I deconstructed Taylor Swift's record breaking "Look What You Made Me Do" comeback video. For The Sun.

Could hypnotherapy finally cure my severe fear of flying? I found out for the London Evening Standard's London Life pages - another example of the lifestyle section I edited for the capital's newspaper.

After research suggested refusing to apologise could actually be good for us, I examined the cult of 'apology addiction' and tackled my own for the lifestyle section I edited at the London Evening Standard: London Life.

From cast dropouts to chemistry-free trailers, ahead of the film's release, I analysed the clues which suggested it was more likely to be Fifty Fades, rather than Shades of Grey. For The Sun.

After research showed there had been a 50 per cent increase in the number of students working as prostitutes to pay for university, I produced a report for The Times investigating the issue - sourcing and interviewing a range of case studies about their experiences.

I oversaw The Sun's campaign for assisted dying to be made legal in the UK. Over several weeks we ran a series of pieces analysing the issue, some can be viewed here, including (scroll down) my assignment to the small, Swiss town of Pfäffikon - home to the world's first suicide centre.