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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Tuesday 28 July 2020
18:30-19:30 GMT
Monetising 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
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 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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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