Journalism
Selected journalism from 2010 to 2022.
Musking it: Inside Elon’s Twitter takeover – Tortoise
Zuckerberg’s empire collapses – The Spectator
Roger Waters: I’m on a Ukrainian ‘Kill List’ – Rolling Stone
The man who would be media king – The New European
Russia is risking the creation of a “splinternet”—and it could be irreversible – MIT Tech Review
Is Uber Over? – Sunday Times
How To Break The Internet (Literally) – Sunday Times
Beware the big tech myth: London’s 2011 riots weren’t organised online – Tortoise
TikTok intifada: the role of new media in old conflicts – Spectator
Substack: how the game-changer turned poacher – The Observer
Tug of War – Tortoise
Don’t let Biden’s victory cloud the issue: journalism needs to reach Americans again – CJR
A dangerous new virus threatens UK — QAnon – Sunday Times
“Welcome to the United States of Amazon,” for Tortoise, with Alexi Mostrous.
“Would you trust this man with your money?” – cover feature for WIRED UK.
“What do we do when everything online is fake?” for Chatham House.
“Julian Assange is the architect of his own downfall,” for the Sunday Times.
“How to cut Big Tech down to size,” for Prospect Magazine.
“Exclusive: Hacked Emails Take Us Inside the Billionaires’ Club Around Vladimir Putin,” for the Daily Beast
“The Anatomy Of A Click: What Happens To Your Data Online,’ for HuffPost.
A major UK domestic violence organisation faces accusations of failing victims and taking inappropriate payments, for BuzzFeed News.
Shell Shocks: How one of the world's biggest oil firms secured a $1.3 billion deal mired in corruption allegations, for BuzzFeed News, with Il Sore 24 Ore
"Inside the strange, paranoid world of Julian Assange", for BuzzFeed News.
"How AirBnb's professional landlords are making London's housing crisis even worse", for BuzzFeed News, with Dan Newling.
"The Science of the Lambs: how the global elite have spent eight decades being injected with sheep fetuses", for BuzzFeed News.
"Revealed: UK banks and firms handled £20 million connected to Russian fraud case", for BuzzFeed News.
"Secret memos reveal Julian Assange's escape plan from the Ecuadorian embassy", for BuzzFeed News.
"Where there is oil and gas there is Schlumberger", for The Guardian as part of the "Keep it in the Ground" campaign.
Part of the "Big Carbon Investigations" series, winning the 2016 Kevin Carmody Award for Outstanding In-depth Reporting.
"How China's Macau crackdown threatens big US casino moguls", for The Guardian, in partnership with Lowell Bergman, Matt Isaacs and Simon Marks for the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley.
"The HSBC Files", for The Guardian, in partnership with Le Monde and the ICIJ.
Winner: investigation of the year, 2015 British Journalism Awards.
Shortlisted: 2016 Orwell Prize for exposing Britain's social evils.
“Prince Andrew named in US lawsuit over underage sex claims” – The Guardian
Offshore Secrets – the Jersey files, for The Guardian, in partnership with the ICIJ.
Stories included:
"Nando's using secretive tax haven trust to avoid inheritance tax bills"
"Top Tory has family link with offshore banker who gave party £800,000"
and
"Offshore tax dealings: celebrities and sportsmen in leaked Jersey files"
"Meet the seven people who hold the keys to worldwide internet security", for The Guardian.
"China's princelings storying riches in Caribbean offshore haven", for The Guardian, in partnership with the ICIJ.
(This story led the Chinese authorities to temporarily completely block access to The Guardian from within China.)
The Edward Snowden files: NSA and GCHQ.
Winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
Winner, Roy W. Howard Award for Public Service Reporting at the 2013 Scripps Howard Awards.
Winner, 2014 special investigation prize at the Paul Foot Awards.
Highlights:
"Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security"
"NSA monitored calls of 35 world leaders after US official handed over contacts"
"GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world's communications"
"The top secret rules that allow NSA to use US data without a warrant"
"Optic Nerve: millions of Yahoo webcam images intercepted by GCHQ"
"The Thatcher effect: what changed and what stayed the same", for The Guardian.
Winner, 2014 RSS Award for Statistical Excellence in Journalism
"Offshore secrets revealed: the shadowy side of a booming industry", for The Guardian, in partnership with BBC Panorama and the ICIJ.
Winner, George Polk Awards (for the multi-year series)
The "Reading the Riots" project, a Guardian/LSE partnership.
Winner, Innovation of the year, 2012 British Journalism Awards.
Winner, 2012 Data Journalism Awards.
"The Guantanamo Bay Files", for The Guardian, in partnership with the New York Times.
The State Department leaks – also known as Cablegate – for WikiLeaks, as documented by Alex Gibney in "We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks".
The Iraq War Logs, for The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, Channel 4 Dispatches, and Al Jazeera.
