So, so, so thrilled that Anna Altman is a finalist for a Deadline Club Award for her The Atavist Magazine story THE QUALITY OF MERCY! Congrats to her and all the other finalists.

deadlineclub.org/2024-awards-fi…

Will facial recognition tech kill off mass protest as we know it? I spent some 6 months reporting this for Rest of World restofworld.org/2024/facial-re…

You can find me on today’s episode of #AJTheTake with the incredible Malika Bilal and the powerful Kimberly Halkett

My latest for Rest of World is set in three South Asian megacities: Lahore, New Delhi, and Dhaka — and how rising levels of air pollution have left gig workers exposed, vulnerable, and sick 🧵

Under pressure from the Narendra Modi government, several high-profile Indian journalists have left mainstream media for YouTube — the last place they feel able to do real journalism.

Read our latest feature, by Sonia Faleiro
restofworld.org/2023/india-you…

I'm terrible at personal updates and also deeply unsure about this website, but a month late: I'm the new head of fact-checking at Rest of World! Looking forward to bugging all my fellow fact-checkers and researchers about best practices. restofworld.org

We filed a petition today at the #ICC charging Israel with genocide & apartheid. We requested arrest warrants against Israel’s President Herzog, PM Netanyahu and Defence Minister Gallant.

aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/9…

#WeChargeYouWithGenocide #Gaza #Palestine #Genocide #Ceasefire

Today, Nov. 6, at 6:30pm EST in NYC’s Foley Square, press freedom advocates are holding a vigil for fallen journalists.

Per Committee to Protect Journalists: As of November 6: 36 journalists and media workers were confirmed dead:
—31 Palestinian
—4 Israeli
—1 Lebanese

Listen to Gaza's children, the fortunate ones sheltering in tents in a UN camp. nytimes.com/video/world/mi…

Deadliest period for journalists since CPJ began tracking in 1992. From October 7-27, at least 29 journalists have been killed in addition to harassment, detentions and other reporting obstructions

And now: communications blackout, that is news blackout

cpj.org/2023/10/cpj-st…

'Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza is quite explicit, open, and unashamed.'

Genocide scholar Raz Segal:
jewishcurrents.org/a-textbook-cas…

UN member states have decided to seek a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza at an Emergency Special Session of the General Assembly, where no state has the veto power
(whereas the Security Council has failed to pass a resolution on a ceasefire 4 times since Oct 7).

I am beyond excited to announce Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project's first ever Research & Data Fellowship. It's a hybrid program that's kicking off from Nov. 1-12 at OCCRP’s global HQ in Amsterdam!

Find more info on the fellowship and how to apply here: occrp.org/fellowship/

Had a fantastic experience fact-checking the latest The Atavist Magazine long read by Bob Kolker — check it out!

The US may be the only nation that authorizes dog attacks inside prison cells. I spent over a year investigating how patrol dogs are used inside United States prisons to attack and terrorize people trapped behind razor wire and cell doors.

insider.com/guard-dogs-att…

Read this! Then come to our online wildfire event tomorrow, where Drew will talk to Indigenous fire specialist Amy Cardinal Christianson and journalists John Vaillant and Trina Moyles about how to navigate our increasingly fiery reality thenarwhal.ca/lets-talk-abou…

Fault Lines first ever feature film, Scout Master, is now out! An investigation into sexual abuse within the Boy Scouts led us to a chilling triple murder in Arkansas from 1997.

Pleased to join Rest of World as a regular fact-checker. Fact-checking = learning and I'm excited to learn about technology and its impacts on people and societies around the world. Check them out if you haven't already; here's a recent story I enjoyed: restofworld.org/2023/techs-bad…

In 2021, my investigative-team colleague Tom Cardoso and I got tired of moaning about Canada's broken freedom of information regime. We decided to turn our reporting skills on the system itself. We had higher ambitions than a traditional story: SecretCanada.com