Julie Craig

Julie Craig is a reporter on the Junior Gazette, the scrappy school newspaper at the centre of Press Gang. She's part of the young staff navigating deadlines, rivalries and the daily scramble to get a story out, thrown into the newsroom's mix of ambition, banter and pressure.

Press Gang's strength was always its ensemble, treating its teenage journalists as sharp, capable people rather than caricatures, and Lucy Benjamin brings an easy naturalism to Julie that fits the show's brisk, overlapping newsroom energy. She feels like a real colleague rather than a type.