‘A gifted interviewer and lively, exuberant storyteller’

Carlos Amato: political cartoonist

 

GLOBAL MEDIA

 

 

GLOBAL REACTION TO MY PANGOLIN/COVID-19 INVESTIGATION:

THE NEW YORK TIMES: ‘Pangolins are suspected as a potential coronavirus host’

SPRINGER NATURE & MORE: More than 135 academic journals have cited the data first published in my investigation on the links between pangolins and Covid-19 several days before it was posted to preprint biology server bioRxiv. Featuring interviews with the researchers, this story was co-written with colleague Don Pinnock. The high-impact research output can be viewed here.

THE NEW YORKER: ‘Did pangolin trafficking cause the coronavirus pandemic?’ – A David Quammen analysis

LE MONDE: ‘Coronavirus: le pangolin a-t-il pu servir d’hôte intermédiaire?’

WIRED: ‘Bats, snakes or pangolins? Inside the hunt for the animal behind the coronavirus outbreak’

 

REACTION TO ‘BATTLEGROUND ANTARCTICA’:

PBS: America’s largest public media enterprise published my Daily Maverick investigation on Russian dual-use geological activities in Antarctica. This work reveals that Kremlin actors have not stopped searching the climate-threatened Southern Ocean for fossil fuels since Antarctica’s 1998 mining ban kicked in.

COVERING CLIMATE NOW: This Guardian/The Nation/Columbia Journalism Review/WNYC climate-media partnership profiled my Battleground Antarctica investigative series alongside ‘Postcards from a world on fire’ by the New York Times. 

 

TWITTER RESPONDS:

 

AWARDS

 

 

17th Annual Taco Kuiper Investigative Awards – ‘Battleground Antarctica’, Special Commendation, 2023.

Standard Bank/Sikuvile South African investigative journalist of the year – Nominated for ‘Battleground Antarctica’, 2022.

Environmental Journalist of the Year Award – South African National Parks

Gourmand 2020 World Cookbook Awards: Entertainment – Duinhuis (Human & Rousseau). I was the editor on this project.

Gourmand 2020 World Cookbook Awards: African (3rd) – Food Stories: With Love from the Twins (NB Publishers). I was the editor on this project.

 

INTERVIEWS WITH OTHER MEDIA

Recent news media interviews about my investigations since 2019.

 

AFTERNOON DRIVE WITH PIPPA HUDSON: Battleground Antarctica investigative series

PUBLISHER RESEARCH COUNCIL: Celebrating women journalists

WORLD CLEANUP DAY: Investigative journalism decries the destruction of our planet

THE BRUCE WHITFIELD ‘MONEY’ SHOW: Battleground Antarctica investigative series

AFTERNOON DRIVE WITH JOHN MAYTHAM: Battleground Antarctica investigative series

AFTERNOON DRIVE WITH JOHN MAYTHAM: ‘Table Mountain is now classified as a struggling park,’ says SANParks

AFTERNOON DRIVE WITH JOHN MAYTHAM: Pyrocene Cape – Inside the furnace of Table Mountain’s fire starters

NEWZROOM AFRIKA: China bans sale of wildlife for food

CAPETALK/702: Uncovering the climate causes behind Australia’s wildfires

SMILE 90.4FM: On We Have a Game Changer and the team who kept digging into stories, despite death threats and empty bank accounts

CAPETALK/702: CITES Rhino Files: Death or glory for species on the bandwagon?

CAPETALK/702: Be mindful before you rush out this Black Friday

Interview with John GI Clarke: Tiara and the Trinitarian Tree