Atlas Newspaper

ALT Cover of The Atlas newspaper, Issue 6, dated 29 October 2026. The cover features a dark, surreal illustration of brightly coloured insects equipped with surveillance technology, projecting beams of light across a nighttime cityscape. The headline reads “Watching You Watching Me,” with the subtitle “Your friendly neighbourhood guide to the surveillance state” and a reference to page 14.

ALT Inside page of The Atlas Issue 6, dated 29 October 2026, featuring a world map with numbered markers indicating reporting locations. Below the map, an introduction titled “Choose your fighter” discusses the paradox of journalists using surveillance tools to expose abuses of power while being subjected to surveillance themselves. A contents list titled “Reporting Live From” highlights stories about student protests in Serbia, Cairo, data centres in Italy, surveillance cameras, and reporting from other locations around the world.

ALT Black background with the headline “Why the world needs The Atlas.” Three circular portraits of The Atlas editor-in-chief Simon Allison, The Continent’s editor-in-chief Christine Mungai, and Coda Story founder Natalia Antelava appear below. Text announces that they will discuss The Atlas’s mission, its vision for journalism, and why the stories we tell matter.

ALT A four-photo collage shows a busy street with a Buddhist monk, framed portraits on a wall, a crowd surrounded by security forces, and a photographer wearing an orange vest marked “Photographer.” A circular black-and-white portrait of journalist Ishan Tankha appears over the collage. White text reads “The photos that make the magazine,” followed by: “Journalist Ishan Tankha will dial in from Goa to share his latest photos and the stories behind them.”

ALT Black background with white text reading “And more surprises to come.”

ALT The Atlas logo appears above a collage of previous newspaper covers featuring architecture, technology, and illustrations. An orange shape overlays the bottom half, with text reading “Online Launch — October 28, 1PM ET/6PM CET.”

ALT Orange circular shape over a collage of newspaper pages, with the headline “The Atlas Launch Event.” Text reads: “Meet the journalists, illustrators, and photographers behind The Atlas newspaper. Join us for an event with journalism, art, music, and a few surprises along the way.”

ALT A photograph of a person holding a newspaper, with their face and the newspaper obscured by static-like patterns for privacy. White text reads “When a newsroom becomes the story,” followed by: “Journalists in Egypt are facing arrest for their work. Join us for a conversation about press freedom, surveillance, and the risks journalists face when reporting the news.”

ALT Black background with white text reading “Your camera roll could make the news.” Below, text explains that it is a photo contest judged by The Atlas photo editor, with a surprise prize for the winner.

ALT An illustrated political cartoon shows a police officer reaching toward a yellow car carrying puppet-like political figures, with a FIFA-branded license plate. A circular portrait illustration of Gado appears in the bottom-right area. White text reads “A newspaper is a work of art,” followed by: “Meet Gado, one of the illustrators bringing The Atlas to life. Discover the art and creative minds behind our latest issue.”

ALT Page 32: Full-page illustrated feature titled “The Historical Record with Bao Nguyen.” A person in a pink shirt sits on a patterned rug beside a record player, holding a vinyl record. Books line a wooden cabinet, two glowing lamps illuminate the room, and a window overlooks a futuristic city skyline at night.

ALT Page 33: Featuring a black-and-white photograph of filmmaker Bao Nguyen holding a professional camera on a busy street market. Below, text introduces “The Historical Record,” a series asking him which fragments of history he would preserve for posterity, referencing his documentary The Stringer and the famous Vietnam War photograph known as “Napalm Girl.” The page includes short sections on a meaningful record, a book and an archive, alongside the colourful cover of The Strokes’ album Is This It.

ALT Page 34: Page continuing “The Historical Record” with Bao Nguyen. The text discusses a childhood comfort meal of rice, scrambled eggs and Maggi sauce, the town of Arles in southern France, and the significance of the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975 for Vietnamese communities. The upper photograph shows two people walking down a narrow, historic stone street in Arles at dusk. The lower black-and-white archival photograph shows a crowded street in Saigon as North Vietnamese forces and tanks enter the city in 1975.

ALT Page 31: Featuring a short story titled “What slides beneath,” subtitled “Dispatches from the future in 300 words or less.” The top illustration combines a black-and-white photograph of a woman in a nurse’s uniform standing among cabbages with a man examining his arm, overlaid with red graphics depicting futuristic aircraft. The story follows Mary in a future where people can slide underground into bunkers, exploring divisions between generations, technology, energy and belief.

ALT Page 29: Titled “The world’s best goulash,” with the subtitle “What do you mean it’s not in Hungary?” The restaurant review features a large photograph of the warmly lit exterior of Plava Frajla restaurant in Novi Sad, Serbia, and a smaller photograph of its dining room, decorated with framed pictures and checkered tablecloths. The text explores Vojvodina’s culinary traditions and reviews the restaurant’s goulash, served with mashed potatoes and red wine from the region. A sidebar lists the dishes and drinks ordered by The Atlas.

ALT Page 28: Titled “We’re just in time,” with the subtitle “Two keyboards. Two very different disciplines. Or are they?” The article by Nadia Beard explores the similarities between writing and playing music. A prominent turquoise book cover in the centre reads The Melody of Things: On Returning to Forgotten Joys by Nadia Beard, featuring a piano silhouette filled with flowers and plants. Three columns of text discuss time, creativity, repetition and the relationship between musical composition and writing.