Before Tortoise, Basia was news editor at HuffPost and worked on the foreign desk at the Guardian. She is on the board of The Student View, a charity trying to build a newsroom in every school.
Basia Cummings
Editor

“There has never been a more crucial time to expose the power gap, and build new and inclusive ways of telling stories that matter. I joined Tortoise to do just that.”
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Thursday 7 January 2021
18:30-19:30 GMTWhy do we climb mountains? with Ed Caesar
Why are humans so obsessed with climbing mountains. We ask the expert, Ed Caesar
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Tuesday 28 July 2020
18:30-19:30 GMTMonetising the sisterhood: do toxic cultures thrive in ‘feminist’ companies
How do feminist businesses balance profit and purpose? Does ‘the sisterhood’ really work for everyone?
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Monday 21 September 2020
Long Covid
Long haul
Hundreds of thousands of people who thought they’d recovered from Covid-19 are still ill. Why?
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Monday 23 March 2020
Infodemic-1
Fake news in the time of C-19
From miraculous cures to paranoid conspiracies, our investigation reveals how misinformation about coronavirus is going viral at a disturbing rate
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Thursday 9 January 2020
Tech Nations: Apple
The new superpowers: Apple
The big technology corporations are more than companies, they’re global powers. It’s time we treated them that way
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Monday 23 November 2020
The Split
Is Scotland on an unstoppable march to leave the UK?
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Monday 9 November 2020
Hero of the financial revolution
Can the Chinese Communist Party learn to live with Jack Ma?
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Thursday 29 October 2020
Blessed are the deal-makers
Evangelicals have been key to Donald Trump’s presidency, and to his bid for re-election