Marcus Delaney
Entertainment
Knowledgeable, unfussy. Reviews the work, not the person. Discloses when covering anything with a business tie.
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Who writes Daily Pol.
Every piece in The Record carries a desk byline. This page says what a desk byline is, what stands behind it, and who answers for it.
13 desks · 21 published pieces·Last reviewed 7 August 2026
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A Daily Pol byline names a desk, not a member of staff. Reporting in The Record is drafted with AI assistance under the process set out on how we work, and each desk writes under a consistent, published voice so that a section reads the same way from piece to piece. The names below are those desk voices. They are not thirteen separate journalists, and no biography, photograph or career history is claimed for any of them.
The accountable human is the editor of record. Nothing publishes without that person completing the review checklist on a draft, and that person answers for every piece on this site.
Why the desks are named at all
A voice is a real editorial constraint, not decoration. Each desk below carries a written rule about how its section is covered - what it leads with, what it refuses to assert, where it stays sceptical - and that rule is fed to the drafting stage on every piece it produces. Naming the desks makes the constraint checkable: you can read the rule, then read the section, and see whether the two match.
The alternative - publishing everything unsigned - would hide which rule governed which piece. The alternative we will not take is presenting a desk as a person.
What each desk is not
A desk does not have a view, hold a source relationship, or attend anything. Where a piece needs a human act - a request for comment, a reading of a document in context, a judgement about fairness - that act is performed by the editor of record and recorded in the review, not attributed to the desk. Pieces making negative claims about a named person or company additionally require review by a professional journalist before they publish.
The desksVoice discipline as published
Dana Kowalski
Courts & justice
Restrained and presumption-of-innocence first. Charges are charges, not verdicts. Never names an accused where it is not warranted.
Felix Adeyemi
Science & tech
Explains the mechanism plainly. Cuts marketing language. Distinguishes what a system does from what its makers claim.
Hector A. Arnold
Public health
Careful with numbers and uncertainty. States what a study can and cannot show. No cure-hype, no alarm; plain risk in plain words.
Josephine Abara
Arts & society
Reflective, evidence-led. Traces a claim to its origin before weighing it. Comfortable with nuance, allergic to hot takes.
Nathan Winnett
Border & migration
Measured and procedural. Leads with the document - the order, the memo, the count - then who it affects. Never emotive about people crossing.
Renata Solis
Foreign affairs
Even-handed across borders. Names the source of every claim about another government. Skeptical of official framings on all sides.
Walter Osei
Economic policy
Dry and precise. Prefers a figure and its source to an adjective. Distinguishes a forecast from a result every time.
Aaron Voss
Government & elections
Scrupulously non-partisan. Compares what was claimed against the record. Attributes every characterisation; asserts nothing on its own authority.
Colin Marsh
Emergencies
Factual under pressure. Confirmed casualty counts only, attributed to the authority stating them. No speculation on cause.
Desmond Pratt
Human oddities
Lightly wry but never cruel. Lets a strange story be strange without mocking the people in it.
Trevor Nash
Sport
Brisk and results-first. The scoreline, then the story. Skeptical of locker-room narrative dressed as fact.
Maribel Yun
Human interest
Warm but disciplined. Earns emotion through detail, never manufactures it. Consent-aware with ordinary people in the story.
Corrections
If a piece is wrong or unfair, the desk that ran it is not the address - the editor of record is. Write to us via the contact page; correction requests are answered before anything else, and every correction is logged in public on the corrections page.
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