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Oct 18, 2024 · For a slower, wiser news. Get the news not when it happens, but when it's ready. We're building a different type of newsroom: slower, wiser news without all the noise
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Slow down, wise up. What’s different about Tortoise is slow news. Not breaking news, but what’s driving it. Calm, clear reporting from our award-winning team on the stories that matter most.
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Oct 7, 2024 · Tortoise’s podcasts are focused on untold stories. In the face of information overload, incremental news-gathering and perishable scoops, we take time to investigate human stories that we think offer a deeper, longer-lasting understanding of what’s happening in the world.
The Slow Newscast - Tortoise
Oct 14, 2024 · The Slow Newscast takes news slowly. We investigate, we report, and every week we try to focus on the stories that really matter in the UK and around the world. Your host is Basia Cummings, once of the Guardian and Huffington Post, who takes stock with the help of colleagues from Tortoise and invited guests.
Tortoise Media in talks to buy The Observer - Tortoise
Sep 17, 2024 · Tortoise, the slow newsroom launched in 2019, approached GMG with an offer to buy The Observer and a commitment to invest over £25 million over the next five years in the editorial and commercial renewal of the title.
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“Tortoise is doing something new with the way they tell the news by opening listeners up to incredible stories from people worldwide that they otherwise might not have heard about.” More
The News Meeting - Tortoise
Giles Whittell and guests debate what should lead the news ahead of the US election. They discuss Republicans’ plans to challenge a Harris win, the significance of Pennsylvania and the importance of the Arab American vote in Michigan.
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Tortoise is a product of our time – and a response to it. Our co-founder James Harding makes the case for slow news, explains how we’re different and why all this matters.
About us - Tortoise
What is Tortoise? What we stand for.
Watch - Tortoise
Michael Palin is one of Britain’s most beloved storytellers, comedians, actors and explorers. He joined us in the Tortoise newsroom to share stories from his latest book, There and Back. Watch the whole evening.