‘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 global interest 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 globally tracked 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’
GLOBAL REACTION TO ‘BATTLEGROUND ANTARCTICA’:
PBS: America’s largest public media enterprise republished, in full, my latest Daily Maverick investigation on Russian dual-use geological activities in Antarctica. This work reveals, for the first time, that Kremlin actors have not stopped scouring the climate-threatened Southern Ocean for fossil fuels on a staggering scale since Antarctica’s 1998 mining ban kicked in.
COVERING CLIMATE NOW: This global 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
Standard Bank/Sikuvile South African investigative journalist of the year – Shortlisted, 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
I am often invited by independent broadcast, digital and print media to speak about my breaking-news investigations. Here are interview highlights 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