Umar Hassan sits down with three-time British Touring Car Champion Matt Neal to talk about his career in the championship, rivalry with Jason Plato and first win at Donington Park in 1999. — “I’ve embraced it much more easily than I thought I would,” Matt Neal tells me about his year-long sabbatical from racing in the British Touring Car Championship. The Stourbridge driver has raced in the championship, both part-time and full-time with teams such as Triple Eight Racing and Team Dynamics since…

Umar Hassan profiles seven-time Formula One World Champion Sir Lewis Hamilton’s journey to becoming the first driver in F1 to win 100 Grand Prix races. — No driver in the 70-plus year history of Formula One has ever won 100 Grand Prix races. Sir Lewis Hamilton is on the verge of setting another record in his Formula One career as he attempts to become the first F1 driver to win 100 Grand Prix races.

The Sun’s F1 correspondent Ben Hunt sits down with Umar Hassan to discuss how he got into F1, his current job and how young journalists can work their way up the motor racing journalism ladder to cover F1. — Travelling the world to see the fastest cars race at speeds of over 200mph and write about it is a dream job for die-hard motor racing fans. For Ben Hunt, he has been reporting on Formula One as The Sun’s F1 correspondent since February 2012.

Countries with poor human rights records have been holding motor racing events to airbrush negative coverage and improve the reputation of their country worldwide for the past 20 years. In this explainer, Umar Hassan explains what sportswashing is and why it’s an issue for motor racing. — As the 2021 Formula One season continues, one of the new additions to the calendar is the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, which will take place in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

If you’re working in the video game industry for a well-known company or independent studio, you would have heard of the term “crunch culture”. Crunch culture is an issue that affects not just young people, but also workers who have been working in the video game sector for years. In this short audio explainer, Umar Hassan explains what the term crunch culture means and how crunch is used in the video game industry.

More than a decade and a half after the EA Spouse letter was published in 2004, crunch culture is still a big issue in the video game industry. In this explainer, Umar Hassan explores the term and how crunch is used in a development cycle of a video game. — During the coronavirus pandemic, video games have played a major role in helping millions stay connected with friends, family members, and work colleagues.

Digital exclusion affects millions in the UK who are unable to access the internet. In this explainer, it will dive into this issue and the things currently being done to get the digitally excluded online. — Many people lack internet access at home in the United Kingdom, which leaves them vulnerable to being digitally excluded from society. Nearly two million households in the UK have no internet access and are reliant on using pay-as-you-go services to access educational, healthcare and banking resources online.

What worked, what elements didn’t work and how could I use some elements in the WaPo’s newsgame in my portfolio. — 7 ways to defy death is a newsgame that was created by The Washington Post in April 2015. The newsgame forms one part in the WaPo’s “The Human Upgrade” series where technology companies were exploring ways for human being to defy death using technology and data to do this. Unlike…

Here’s how I would present my special educational needs story that I had written as a video report, which is shown with this BBC Newsnight SEND investigation example. — This video by BBC Newsnight on their YouTube channel investigates how more than 1,500 children who have special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) have no school place in England. It’s a great example of how this investigation uses video to illustrate the issue of how pupils with SEND are being…