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Ella Hill
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“For me, Tortoise is all about storytelling: from the clarity of the daily Sensemaker to our investigations shedding light on urgent, complex stories. It’s a privilege to be part of the reporting team.”

Ella is a reporter at Tortoise, working mainly on the Sensemaker team. Before Tortoise, she interned at the Economist’s 1843 magazine. Prior to journalism, she worked (briefly) as a researcher for an NGO in Jordan.

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Monday 19 April 2021
18:30-19:30 BST

Campus Injustice: are women safe on campus?

How do we fix rising sexual abuse on campus? Join us to find out.

Wednesday 14 April 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Tension in Ukraine

What just happened

Thursday 8 April 2021

Primary Sources: What teenagers are telling us on Everyone’s Invited

Young people have shared 14,000 accounts of rape culture at over 600 different schools. Analysis of their testimonies reveals the challenges children face, and what they want done about it

Wednesday 7 April 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Where AstraZeneca went wrong

What just happened

Thursday 1 April 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Crisis in Brazil

What just happened

Thursday 11 February 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Women and MBS

What just happened

Friday 5 February 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Seven year scratch

What just happened

Thursday 7 January 2021
10 minute read

Sensemaker: DC insurrection

What just happened

Tuesday 29 December 2020

The good that happened in 2020: Wealth

2020 wasn’t all bad. And it’s important that we remember that. This series considers the heartening things that happened this year, according to each of Tortoise’s five main themes

Thursday 10 December 2020
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Biology’s breakthrough

What just happened

Friday 4 December 2020
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Brexit: to diverge, or not?

What just happened

Wednesday 2 December 2020
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Brexit crunch week part 2

What just happened

Monday 30 November 2020
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Eyes off the prize

What just happened

Friday 27 November 2020
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Tiers before Christmas

What just happened

Tuesday 24 November 2020

Who was failed the most?

Thursday 19 November 2020
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Conflict in Tigray

What just happened

Wednesday 18 November 2020
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Devolution disaster

What just happened

Monday 16 November 2020

The lost month: what happened in February?

Monday 9 November 2020
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Biden’s time

What just happened

Friday 6 November 2020
10 minute read

Sensemaker: Neck and neck

What just happened

Friday 30 October 2020
10 minute read

Sensemaker, 30 October 2020

What just happened

Monday 26 October 2020
10 minute read

Sensemaker, 26 October 2020

What just happened

Monday 12 October 2020
10 minute read

Sensemaker, 12 October 2020

What just happened

Friday 9 October 2020
10 minute read

Sensemaker, 9 October 2020

What just happened

Thursday 8 October 2020
10 minute read

Test and trace

A shot in the dark

The prime minister is reaching for the stars, but the test and trace scheme is still in the gutter

Thursday 1 October 2020

Big Egg

Hatching the egg

Meet the new generation of pioneers in fertility science, technology and ethics

Wednesday 17 June 2020

The government is unwell

Infection HQ

Britain’s leading politicians are spread across a few buildings and streets in central London. Here’s how – and when – the virus swept through them

Friday 29 May 2020

Universities in crisis

Safe space?

Making campuses covid-secure is a complex problem and good information is hard to find

Wednesday 20 May 2020

Social care

A new deal

Could Covid-19 do for social care what World War II did for the NHS?

Tuesday 18 February 2020

Campus justice

A college with secrets

Sexual assault allegations from three different women against the same man. A grave allegation of sexual assault by a senior academic on a male student. And an historic allegation of sexual assault against another academic.

These three cases all crashed into a Cambridge college within a few months of one another, early in 2018, each more complex than the last.

This investigation asks: does the reputation of an institution and its close-knit group of tutors count for more than the welfare of students in their care?

Wednesday 5 May 2021

The oracle of Omaha

The richest 90-year-old man on earth, Warren Buffett, has announced his succession plan for the company he runs. But he’s not retiring just yet.

Monday 3 May 2021

Trump’s keeper of the keys

Tuesday 27 April 2021

India’s Covid crisis

How much responsibility does India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, bear for the country’s catastrophic coronavirus outbreak?

Monday 19 April 2021

Russia vs Ukraine, take 2

Seven years after Russia annexed Crimea, Russian forces are assembling on the border with Ukraine once again. So what does President Vladimir Putin want this time?

Tuesday 13 April 2021

The ambassador who got locked out

Kyaw Zwar Minn is the Myanmar ambassador to the UK. But, as a military takeover seizes power at home, he has been locked out of his own embassy in London. Why?

Thursday 8 April 2021

A royal squabble

A high-profile prince has fallen out with the king of Jordan. Does it spell trouble in a usually calm Middle Eastern country?

Wednesday 7 April 2021

AstraZeneca’s PR woes

What had been a huge success for the vaccine maker is now looking more like a comms disaster… how did it go so wrong?

Thursday 1 April 2021

Ghislaine Maxwell’s future

Ghislaine Maxwell’s charge sheet just got longer: Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend is now accused of sex trafficking, too.

Tuesday 23 March 2021

A dangerous love story

The story of Jang Yeong-jin’s escape from North Korea, a country where citizens are told that homosexuality doesn’t exist

Friday 19 March 2021

Europe’s vaccine battles

She seemed like the perfect candidate to oversee the EU’s vaccine rollout…what went wrong for Ursula von der Leyen?

Tuesday 16 March 2021

John Hollis’s exciting antibodies

An American man caught Covid – and his body responded by making some amazingly powerful antibodies. It could be a breakthrough for medicine.

Friday 12 March 2021

Who’s in charge in Hong Kong?

Hong Kong is meant to have some independence from China. But those days are nearly over.

Wednesday 10 March 2021

Is Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe coming home?

After five years locked up in Iran, the British-Iranian mother’s sentence has come to an end. But returning to her family might still be a way off.

Monday 8 March 2021

A reckoning for New York’s governor

Two serious scandals are unfolding around Andrew Cuomo. For now, he’s staying in office. But how long will he last?

Tuesday 2 March 2021

The missing patient

Someone, somewhere in England, has the super-infectious Brazil variant of Covid-19 – and the authorities are racing to track them down.

Monday 1 March 2021

The story of Shamima Begum

She left London to join Isis in Syria when she was 15. Now, she’s been stripped of her British citizenship and denied any chance to return home. But is Shamima Begum a victim, or a threat?

Wednesday 24 February 2021

Harry, Meghan and the Royals: why couldn’t they work it out?

Prince Harry and Meghan’s trial separation from the Royal family has just been made permanent. It’s not the outcome anyone involved wanted. So why has it turned out this way?

Monday 22 February 2021