Alexi Mostrous worked at The Times and at the Guardian for 13 years in roles including Head of Investigations and Saturday News Editor, before joining Tortoise Media as a partner in September 2019. In 2013 he won News Reporter of the Year and Scoop of the Year for exposing celebrities such as Jimmy Carr and Gary Barlow as aggressive tax avoiders. In 2018 he was nominated for the same awards for his reporting on Google and Facebook. He has reported from both London and Washington DC as a Stern Fellow for the Washington Post. Previously a barrister, Mostrous studied English at Cambridge.
Alexi Mostrous
Investigations Editor
“In a world of Facebook clickbait, Twitter streams and iPhone alerts, in-depth journalism has never been more important. As an investigative reporter, it’s great to work for an organisation which takes the time to look beyond the headlines and tell important stories in new and innovative ways.”
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Thursday 3 December 2020
08:30-15:00 GMT
The Global AI Summit
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Monday 26 October 2020
18:25-19:30 GMT
The future of information: what is saved, what’s deleted and who decides?
Once you share something online, is it really out there forever?
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Tuesday 6 October 2020
07:55-09:00 GMT
Is a more automated job market less fair?
Breakfast ThinkIn: is a more automated job market less fair?
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Monday 29 June 2020
Money & monarchy
royal money sovereign wealth fund queen and charles
Covid-19 will bring job losses, wage cuts and lower living standards to thousands of people across Britain. Even the royal household is bracing itself to take a financial hit as income from tourism and rental properties dries up. [pugpig_boxout text=”Why this story?” value=”0″ introduction=”The Queen, the living symbol of stability, turned 94 under lockdown. One […]
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Monday 23 March 2020
Infodemic-1
the infodemic fake news coronavirus
It was only because he studied epidemiology that Manlio De Domenico, a statistical physicist at Italy’s Bruno Kessler Foundation, had the foresight to start collecting coronavirus-related tweets in January, weeks before the world woke up to the full scale of the pandemic. “I listened to what was going on in China and I asked to […]
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Thursday 9 January 2020
Tech Nations: Apple
Apple Sourcing Further Reading
When we began reporting on Apple in the summer of 2019 we faced an immediate problem: how to get inside a company described by Tim Cook, its chief executive, as more secretive than the CIA? We’re happy to admit: it was tricky. Apple employees are told from day 1 not to discuss their work with […]
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Thursday 9 January 2020
Tech Nations: Apple
Apple Artificial Intelligence Tech Nations
In 2011, Apple became the first major tech company to house an AI-based virtual assistant, called Siri, in its devices. Siri uses machine-learning to try to understand people’s questions, provide the most accurate responses and make its own voice sound as natural as possible. Google’s equivalent, Google Assistant, launched a whole five years later, in […]
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Thursday 9 January 2020
Tech Nations: Apple
Apple podcast tech nations
For several months, Tortoise has been investigating big tech companies as if they were countries: holding them to the same standards that we apply to nation states; caring about what they think; understanding what they’re planning to do; figuring out who’s in charge now, and who might be next. It’s been a huge reporting project. […]
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Wednesday 8 January 2020
Tech Nations: Apple
Tech Nations Apple Cultural Affairs
“Crazy numbers and crazy deals. But they haven’t had a hit.” That’s how one studio executive summed up Apple’s high-risk move into Hollywood. [pugpig_boxout text=”Tech Nations” value=”0″ introduction=”Apple is more than a company. It is a superpower. It was the first company to be worth more than $1 trillion, a size matched by fewer than […]
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Wednesday 8 January 2020
Tech Nations: Apple
Tech Nations Apple Domestic policy
How does Apple behave in its home market of the US? By walking a tightrope between wokeness and commercial acuity. On the one hand, it is a vocal supporter of gun control, the environment, equal marriage, gay rights and immigration. This fits with the liberalism of its own staff: nearly 97 per cent of Apple […]
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Tuesday 7 January 2020
Tech Nations: Apple
Tech Nations Apple Economy
In his last quarterly meeting with analysts on 30 October 2019, the same day Apple released its £249 AirPod Pro headphones, Tim Cook did his best to sound bullish. Apple’s revenue in the September quarter had risen 1.8 per cent to $64 billion, he said, beating expectations. The App store and Apple Pay saw “double […]
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Tuesday 7 January 2020
Tech Nations: Apple
Tech Nations Apple Constitution
During the 2010 ‘All Things Digital’ Conference in Palos Verdes, California, Steve Jobs was asked about Apple’s values. It was a short conversation. “The core values are the same,” he said. “We come into work wanting to do the same thing today as we did five or ten years ago, which is to build the […]
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Tuesday 7 January 2020
Tech Nations: Apple
Tech Nations Apple Foreign policy
Apple’s annual meeting will take place early this year inside the Steve Jobs Theater on the company’s new campus, Apple Park in Cupertino, California. Despite the buttery leather of the theatre’s $14,000 Italian Poltrona Frau chairs, executives might be in for an uncomfortable ride. Shareholders will be asked to press the company for a public […]
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Monday 6 January 2020
Tech Nations: Apple
*DAY 1: Apple – State of the Nation
In June 2017, about 100 employees of Apple Inc gathered at the company’s headquarters at 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, to hear a presentation designed to scare them witless. Staffed by former members of the National Security Agency and the US military, Apple’s global security team played video messages from top executives warning attendees never to […]
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Monday 6 January 2020
Tech Nations: Apple
*DAY 1 – Part I – Leadership
When John MacFarlane, the founder of Sonos, wanted to negotiate a partnership with Apple, he arranged to meet some of Steve Jobs’s key lieutenants. Greg Joswiak, one of those lieutenants and now Apple’s vice president of product marketing, was “rude and arrogant” during the 2004 meeting, MacFarlane recalled. “He was completely dismissive. But the Greg […]