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Carole Cadwalladr Profile picture
@carolecadwalla
Jul 19, 2020 • 4 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
Investigative journalism is difficult, expensive, exposing, legally risky.

And zero point in doing it if nothing *actually* changes

A short thread to explain what @allthecitizens is trying to do.

1) Use James Bond to make people pay attention

2) Provide a platform & resource for solid evidence-based journalism.

This was honestly an amazing panel on a hugely important subject at a critical moment: @CatherineBelton @anneapplebaum @Billbrowder @ProfessorShaw @lukeharding1968

pscp.tv/w/ceNntTFXZ0tn…
3) Find more creative ways of getting the story out. Not everyone reads @guardian. And v few people really understand how implicated Boris Johnson is in the #RussianReport

Huge kudos to @lisemayer & @rorybremner for this.

Take action. Watch this space. @allthecitizens

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Nov 1
Many people have asked me what is going on at @guardian & @observer. The answer is a lot. To be clear, this isn’t an ‘internal dispute’ between 700+ journalists & their management it’s a struggle for the soul & future of UK journalism.

telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/…
An archived version here. (Also pls support @waybackmachine which is another vital journalistic institution under mortal threat)

archive.is/2024.11.01-082…
And this just in: an overwhelming display of support from UK's authors, writers, poets & illustrators who understand the threat to UK journalism.

thebookseller.com/news/authors-i…
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Oct 27
Democracy *will* die in darkness. If a journalist isn’t telling you what’s happening...who will?

Crisis has hit @washingtonpost. Its journalists are in revolt. But here's what you don't know: it directly links to another journo crisis...at @guardian
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 theguardian.com/us-news/2024/o…
The @washingtonpost has refused to endorse a presidential candidate. Legendary ex-editor @PostBaron calls it an act of profound 'cowardice'. The paper, owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos & led by ex-Murdoch man, Will Lewis, is now, in effect, a Trump collaborator.
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WaPo journalists are appalled. It’s a moment of profound shock. Meanwhile @guardian journalists in same WTF shock after discovering management is seeking to sell off a chunk of org…..to Will Lewis’s old friend & Murdoch stablemate, James Harding

3/theguardian.com/media/2024/sep…
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Oct 6
Journalists are meant to speak truth to power. That's our job. But what do you do when that power is your own news org?

This thread (professional suicide note?) is about @guardian & @ObserverUK's future. Because it turns out you can’t believe everything you read on a poster..
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Since 1993, @ObserverUK has been owned by @guardian. Which is owned in turn by the Scott Trust set up in 1936 to preserve the financial & editorial independence of @guardian "in perpetuity"

But perpetuity ain't what it used to be. And 2 weeks ago, a bombshell lands: Tortoise Media is in talks to buy @ObserverUK.
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If you don't know, @tortoise is a plucky media start-up founded in 2019 by James Harding, an ex-ed of @thetimes & a big beast of UK news.

But the thing is...it's like @guardian says, 'Thanks to reader funding, we're not for sale'.

So…what gives?!?
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Sep 7
So here’s a tale…

I noticed Charlotte Owen, the junior aide Boris Johnson controversially ennobled, has a new gig with - shock! - Boris Johnson. But that’s only the start. There’s also uranium, Iran, Steve Bannon..& a LOT of qs

My piece for @ObserverUK
theguardian.com/politics/artic…
Boris Johnson has gone into business with this chap - Amir Adnani. He’s a uranium entrepreneur. And the photo he’s shared is the VP of his company meeting Johnson in parliament when he was still prime minister. 🧐 Image
At some point - 4 days before he left office to put a number on it - Boris Johnson got *very* bullish on nuclear energy & committed £700m to the endlessly controversial Sizewell C reactor

You’ll remember from your science lessons that nuclear reactors run on…uranium Image
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Sep 2
Yesterday I wrote a piece about Elon Musk for @ObserverUK, a free speech warrior so committed to the cause he serially sues his critics for libel. Today he responds to an untrue tweet about my own libel case.
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This is the article.

What I said in this ‘hateful’ piece is that Elon Musk believes in free speech in the same way he believes in free Teslas. Free for him & very expensive for everyone else.

It’s not a cause. It’s a grift.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Musk’s latest defamation suit is against a non profit org @mmfa who’d had the temerity to speak freely about advertising on X.

His last libel claim was thrown out by a judge who said it was a SLAPP suit intended to intimidate & silence

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May 23, 2023
NEW: I'm seeking permission to appeal in the Supreme Court. There's no meaningful free expression in this country if after proving your speech is lawful, you're hit with £££ costs: a devastating ruling that will chill public interest journalism
by @_EmmaGH
theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/m…
This was filed today in the Court of Appeal. If the Supreme Court rejects it, we believe there’s a strong case to take it to the European Court of Human Rights. ImageImageImageImage
Article 10 of the European Convention of Human Rights puts an obligation on states to ensure freedom of expression. According to the ruling in this case, it's very far from free: even if you can prove your speech is lawful, it'll still cost you hundreds of thousands of pounds...
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