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Sensemaker Live is our chance to get under the skin of a ‘live’ news story. Our Sensemaker team choose a topic a few days beforehand.
Editor: Giles Whittell, Editor and Partner, Tortoise
This ThinkIn is in partnership with Santander.
How does a digital ThinkIn work?
A digital ThinkIn is like a video conference, hosted by a Tortoise editor, that takes place at the advertised time of the event. Digital ThinkIns are new to Tortoise. Now that our newsroom has closed due to the coronavirus outbreak, we feel it’s more important than ever that we ‘get together’ to talk about the world and what’s going on.
The link to join the conversation will be emailed to you after you have registered for your ticket to attend. When you click the link, you enter the digital ThinkIn and can join a live conversation from wherever you are in the world.
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What is a Tortoise ThinkIn?
A ThinkIn is not another panel discussion. It is a forum for civilised disagreement. It is a place where everyone has a seat at the (virtual) table. It’s where we get to hear what you think, drawn from your experience, energy and expertise. It is the heart of what we do at Tortoise.
How we work with partners
We want to be open about the business model of our journalism, too. At Tortoise, we don’t take ads. We don’t want to chase eyeballs or sell data. We don’t want to add to the clutter of life with ever more invasive ads. We think that ads force newsrooms to produce more and more stories, more and more quickly. We want to do less, better.
Our journalism is funded by our members and our partners. We are establishing Founding Partnerships with a small group of businesses willing to back a new form of journalism, enable the public debate, share their expertise and communicate their point of view. Those companies, of course, know that we are a journalistic enterprise. Our independence is non-negotiable. If we ever have to choose between the relationship and the story, we’ll always choose the story.
We value the support that those partners give us to deliver original reporting, patient investigations and considered analysis.
We believe in opening up journalism so we can examine issues and develop ideas for the 21st Century. We want to do this with our members and with our partners. We want to give everyone a seat at the table.
Sensemaker Live is in partnership with Santander
For the past four years the message the US has broadcast is that it doesn’t want to lead, doesn’t want free trade, doesn’t trust its allies and doesn’t care who knows it. So what does America still stand for that will define its place in the world for the next four years and beyond?
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EDITOR AND INVITED EXPERTS
Giles Whittell
Sensemaker Editor
Anne Applebaum
Staff writer for The Atlantic and a Pulitzer-prize winning historian
Julian Borger
World Affairs Editor (based in Washington), The Guardian
Greg Swenson
Member of Republicans Overseas. In his professional career he brings 25 years of capital markets experience on Wall Street to Brigg Macadam, and he spent over a decade at Lehman Brothers.
Ian Buruma
Author of The Churchill Complex: The Rise and Fall of the Special Relationship which was released in September this year and is described as a “dazzling tour de force of storytelling and analysis of Britain’s relationship with America” which “examines the disillusion and disenchantment that has crept into the post-war order and asks if anything can be saved from the wreckage of Brexit and Trump.