Sarah Jackson

Sarah Jackson is a reporter on the Junior Gazette, the scrappy student newspaper at the centre of Press Gang. She's part of the ensemble of teenagers put to work chasing stories, hitting deadlines, and answering to editor Lynda Day, learning the trade of journalism the hard way inside a school that treats the paper like a real newsroom.

Press Gang thrived on treating its young reporters as competent professionals rather than kids playing dress-up, and Kelda Holmes brings that same unfussy seriousness to Sarah. She's a steady presence in a newsroom full of outsized egos, doing the work rather than performing it, which is its own quiet kind of charisma.