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News Decoder correspondent Sarah Edmonds explores a tough question that societies are facing as they grapple with #Covid_19: How much economic sacrifice is necessary to save the elderly? bit.ly/34rEYRU

News Decoder correspondent Sarah Edmonds looks at the race to develop a #vaccine against #COVID19 and why a vaccine is key to returning the world to pre-pandemic footing. ow.ly/451250zzEgh

Quick request on behalf of dissertation-immersed daughter: she is seeking current UK undergraduates who took Psychology at A-level and who would be willing to fill out a quick and painless email questionnaire in the next couple of days. Please DM if thoughts.

My latest for News Decoder. Didn't make it into the story, but I learned today that similarly false conspiracy theories about who started the Great Fire of London in 1666 raged through the streets even as the city's buildings burned. #TakeCareBeforeYouShare

Haunting photos of the devastation wrought by wildfires in California: reuters.com/news/picture/c…

Nightmare landscape. #ThisIsClimateChange theguardian.com/world/gallery/…

My latest for News Decoder.

Amazon biome hurtles toward death spiral as deforestation jumps in 2020 reut.rs/36k10YJ

My take on what a prolonged bout of inflation may mean for a generation that has never experienced widespread price rises.

Russian journalism going through “a dark valley” Nobel Peace laureate Muratov says on receiving award ⁦Gwladys Fouché⁩ ⁦Nerijus Adomaitis⁩ reuters.com/world/nobel-pe…

This snowman in Oslo wasn’t happy after reading my book “The Great Melt” about climate change ⁦⁦Flint Books⁩ ⁦Christiana Figueres⁩ ⁦Jo de Vries⁩

So this was kind of cool to wake up to: My first piece of published fiction. My enormous thanks to the lovely @LeahEichler and Esoterica Magazine.

“The picture for… journalism [safety] is pretty grim,” says incoming Committee to Protect Journalists president Jodie Ginsberg. “Journalists are canaries in the coalmine,” she adds -- and at a time when we're contending with a “firehose of falsehood,” says Jay Rosen.

In "Pancake Day," the latest short story on Esoterica Magazine, Sarah Edmonds paints a painful portrait of the life of a boy whose young mother was refused an abortion. His life unravels tragically for all. Inspired by the overturned Roe V. Wade. Read on: esotericamag.com/pancake-day/

My second piece of short fiction for the lovely Leah Eichler and Esoterica Magazine.

🩸 Oxblood – Tom Benn Winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award Set in 1980s South Manchester, Benn's blazing novel of female solidarity and the legacy of male violence centres on three generations of women at the heart of an underworld family.

At least 24 journalists have been killed in the Israel-Gaza conflict in less than three weeks. That's unprecedented. A total of 68 journalists and media workers were killed worldwide last year. More than a third of that number have died in just 19 days. cpj.org/2023/10/journa…

Tech firms let Russia probe software widely used by U.S. government reut.rs/2DAhAn3

"The fight for free expression in Myanmar remains incomplete and urgent. We are proud to honor these intrepid reporters." Our jailed Reuters colleagues Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo win the 2018 PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award. So proud. #FreeWaLoneKyawSoeOo pen.org/press-release/…

Well-deserved recognition for two brave Reuters journalists jailed in Burma for exposing a massacre in Burma. Thank you Jason Rezaian wapo.st/2nVconO?tid=ss…