Elizabeth Pears
@BizPears
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Longform editor @FT. Previously: news editor at BuzzFeed News. I'm not really on here anymore so email me.
Near the cake trolley
Joined June 2009
So...we made a show. Four Interviews. Episode One is out now on BET International and 5. Now You Know with Julie Adenuga. https://t.co/Iddh07qIFI
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If you're in Lagos for business or pleasure, you're almost certainly looking for the best places to eat in the city. In a daring act of journalism, I ate my way across the city to bring you my list of five must-visit restaurants when you're in Lagos. https://t.co/MO0TDXRJri
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The restaurants that really mean business in west Africa’s finance hub
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After 9 months of mumming I'm officially back @theleaduk today I'll be writing/editing/commissioning for the national publication & I want your pitches I'm after brilliantly researched features on environment/education/culture/inequality, always with a focus on the human story
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Despicable. As families grieve, Trump should be leading, not lying. We put safety first, drove down close calls, grew Air Traffic Control, and had zero commercial airline crash fatalities out of millions of flights on our watch. President Trump now oversees the military and the
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I’m always looking to commission freelancers on stories with strong human interest, real life stories, celeb interviews that work for The Mirror. (Def have a read of the paper and site to get an idea). Pitch me your bits at Faima.bakar@reachplc.com
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BREAKING: Bangladeshi anti-corruption officials have demanded the bank account details of Tulip Siddiq, the City minister, and six of her family members. Officials have told the Guardian they have asked all Bangladeshi banks to share account information and transactions.
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Some ✨news✨ I’m now a tech reporter for @pocintech, writing about people or colour in tech. Excited to join the team and work on interesting and important stories
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Personal news time! After 4 fab years building & leading CNN’s gender team, As Equals, delighted to join @FullerProject as Editor-In-Chief Fuller will be 10 in 2025, in a far more uncertain world. Looking forward to telling stories that connect with audiences & catalyse change
We are excited to announce that award-winning international journalism leader @ElizaTalks has been named Editor-in-Chief of @FullerProject. Living in The Netherlands, Eliza is the Fuller Project’s first internationally-based Editor-in-Chief.
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This was my jam. It started to feel like a mirage at one point because you never hear this version anywhere
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We’re going to hear lots of stories about which people, policies and rhetoric are to blame for the Democrats’ defeat. Some of those stories may even be true! But an underrated factor is that 2024 was an absolutely horrendous year for incumbents around the world 👇
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New: The swing to Trump in maps and charts 🇺🇸📈 The Republican candidate picked up more votes than in 2020 in every state apart from Utah and Washington. W/ @ollie @sam_learner @evawxiao @clara__murray @Vin_Viz_ 👉 https://t.co/QhmgrLAVsy
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Whenever Shell (and the other international oil companies) leave Nigeria’s onshore industry, there will be a trail of environmental damage behind them. In today’s @FT Big Read, @thomas_m_wilson and I ask who will clean up the mess.
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[FREE TO READ] Who will clean up the environmental mess when Shell and others pull out of the Niger Delta?
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Icon. What a gift to music and the culture.
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“There will never be another like him” Producer. Composer. Entertainment powerhouse. Rest well, Quincy Jones. Thank you for your timeless work 🤍🕊️
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"His spirit will live on" ❤️ The civil rights campaigner Paul Stephenson - who led the Bristol Bus Boycott in 1963 - has died. Read about his incredible life here ➡️ https://t.co/GdVectwizz
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New - Furious chat on Labour MPs WhatsApp about black representation in government sparked by election of Badenoch. One called it “serious embarrassment and a blind spot in No 10” that there were no senior black staff - when the Conservatives have elected a black woman leader.
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I’m not a puppet Elon.. I’m a daughter of two immigrant parents that had to work their ass off to provide for me! I’m a product of welfare, I’m a product of section 8, I’m a product of poverty and I’m a product of what happens when the system is set up against you….But you don’t
Another puppet who can’t even talk without being fed the words. The Kamala campaign has no authenticity or true empathy.
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The thing about "the UK’s tax burden is now at a record high", is that this is also true for almost all countries 📈
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It’s nice to post some good news for a change. The Long Wave is launched. Thank you to the thousands (!) who have signed up already 🙏🏾
The @guardian has today launched The Long Wave: a new newsletter delivering a weekly dose of Black life and culture around the world, written by @NesrineMalik and edited and co-written by @jaseokundaye
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