Former BBC. TBIJ Global Health Editor. Doorstep Murder Podcast. Investigative documentaries incl Panorama.
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Today let's take a look at our Editor of the Year MJA Awards 2025 shortlist. We have @jameshalliwell from C+D, @journojennifer from The BMJ and @FinScotland from TBIJ - Congrats all! See the full details of their work below mjauk.org/2025/08/15/finalis…
Thanks @gijn. I know we say this all the time but… it was a whole team effort and what a great global health team they are @TBIJ The key to our reporting is making a real impact. There’s more to come soon…
💫 NEW! Two reporters from @TBIJ’s global health team explain how they uncovered the shady world of phony snakebite anti-venom.
📝 Paul Eccles & @FinScotland. twp.ai/4imZbY
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Global leaders have agreed to reduce the number of people dying from superbugs by 2030
The United Nations declaration aims for a 10% fall in deaths caused by antimicrobial resistance
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The good news is… antibiotic resistance is top of the agenda in New York this week. We are here for the United Nations High Level Meeting on antimicrobial resistance. It’s buzzing with people passionate about preventing situations like we are highlighting here 👇
Typhoid is an infection that’s often caused by contaminated food or water – in the past it was almost eliminated
But drug-resistant variants of the illness have now made the infection more deadly👇
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Another cracker from @brian_bilston to lift your day.
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Really important work. Please read.
EXCLUSIVE: A former employee of tobacco giant Philip Morris has blown the whistle to @TBIJ, revealing a web of payments funding tobacco research
Shiro Konuma told us: “We have to tell the people about this” (🧵) 1/8
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Really hope this translates into justice and, even better, a culture change. Including for victims of extortion.
New offence comes into force in Scotland making it a crime to encourage or assist another person to self-harm. The law was first passed by the UK Govt & extended to the Scottish Parliament through a legislative consent motion.
We'll speak to @MareeToddMSP
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🚨The UK government is planning to ban disposable vapes to clamp down on underage vaping
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🆕 We’re banning disposable vapes in the UK to protect children’s health.
This is part of new measures to clamp down on underage vaping and create a #SmokefreeGeneration by making it illegal to sell tobacco products to anyone born on or after 1 January 2009.
Details 🔻
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We need independent in-depth investigative journalism right now. Here’s how you can support it at its best. Please see the @TBIJ thread #investigativejournalism #investigativereporting and feel involved.
Today we’re launching Bureau Insiders – a membership community for those who believe in the power of investigative journalism to change the world 🌍 1/5
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Earlier this week the transport secretary Mark Harper brought up ‘15-minute cities’ during the Conservative Party Conference
His description wasn’t far off the mark, but then he went on to say that the concept was being “misused” 🤔
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Huge congratulations to the global health team @TBIJ who won this award tonight at #mjaawards for their incredible work. Great recognition @christinagiles @rosafurneaux @lauramarg and Paul Eccles for your dedication to making a difference.
The #MJAAwards Feature of the Year (General Audience) goes to @christinagiles @rosafurneaux @lauramarg and Paul Eccles for their @TBIJ investigation into poor quality and dangerous childhood cancer drugs. Highly commended to @Ben_Spencer thebureauinvestigates.com/st…
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This is what it feels like to be alive as we approach the end of the world as we know it. There is time to avoid the worst but it means every single one of us becoming activists. Leave it to other people and we are toast. Listen to David Attenborough who warned us time and again
Doorstep murder: Possible suspect jailed on drugs charge.
Worth knowing about this if you are following this case and hoping for justice. #doorstepmurder #truecrime bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-h…
This is on in 20mins and then available on @BBCSounds. It was a pleasure to work with @LaraLewington on this. Can the AI really let us put our feet up and make the documentary for us…?
A Documentary: By ChatGPT, on @BBCRadio4 & @BBCSounds, Monday 6th March at 8pm. The AI and I work together to tell the story of what this latest technology means for us humans.
