stunning

The UK receives £36 billion less in tax than it’s owed EVERY YEAR

That’s a lot of money so we decided to look into it – and the figures don’t look great 👇

Many thanks Bellingcat for bringing Hannah and me on to talk about #factchecking

This session will be starting in 15mins for anyone interested in the benefits of fact checking in newsrooms!

For the first time EVAH (and only 30 days after a drama we did warn them about), The Great Post Office Scandal is in almost all UK bookshops, including independents, Waterstones, WH Smith and Amazon - either on the shelf, click and collect or Prime. Please, tell your friends.

.The Bureau of Investigative Journalism is seeking an engaging and effective community organiser to help ensure the people we write about, and with, are at the heart of our reporting

Experience of community organising is essential but you don’t need to have a journalism background

thebureauinvestigates.com/blog/2024-01-2…

. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism is hiring a Fact Checker

This role is for you if you:

- like digging deep into the 'show me how you know this' of journalism
- enjoy learning new things
- play well with others and know how to firmly and fairly hold your ground

thebureauinvestigates.com/blog/2024-01-2…

Post Office Scandal with Nick Wallis comes to #southend on Sun 28 Apr 2024 💻 trafalgartickets.com/palace-theatre… #PostOfficeScandal

🚨 A Kazakh-linked investment company is suing us over an investigation we published in 2022 – and a Labour politician is helping their case

thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024-0…

🗣️”I spent three weeks in Pakistan looking into a growing global threat, seeing how superbugs are created, and the devastation they leave behind.

“Everywhere I went, it was clear that the poorest were suffering the most” 👇

thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2023-1…

Every day, millions of people use dating apps

But, for every app, there’s a team of content moderators – like Gael – whose job it is to keep users safe 👇

thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2023-1…

Panicked care workers and support organisations have shared their anger over new plans to prevent migrant care workers from bringing their families to join them in the UK 👇

thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2023-1…

Journalists are not a target #CeasefireNOW
reuters.com/graphics/ISRAE…

Breaking news: The UK Supreme Court has ruled that Deliveroo riders cannot form unions or be recognised as employees in a landmark decision for the gig economy on.ft.com/3sO0TDa

INVESTIGATION IN COLLABORATION WITH The Bureau of Investigative Journalism: Bumble, Grindr, and Hinge moderators struggle with “unattainable” expectations and traumatic content. wired.trib.al/e2kZLAJ

Many said the targets they worked to made these conditions more difficult. We were sent the results of this survey sent to Bumble staffers dealing with the most serious cases.

“Always failing at my targets… has me constantly feeling anxious”

Have you ever had a bad experience on a dating app and reported another user?

I spent the last few months speaking to the burnt-out workers - many of them outsourced & based in the Global South - struggling to keep dating apps safe:

wired.com/story/bumble-g…

“We have just witnessed over the last few weeks the largest displacement of Palestinians since 1948.”

– UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini says the scale of destruction and loss in Gaza is staggering as lack of fuel jeopardizes entire humanitarian response. news.un.org/en/story/2023/…