Fiona Walker
@FinScotland
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Former BBC. TBIJ Global Health Editor. Doorstep Murder Podcast. Investigative documentaries incl Panorama.
Glasgow
Joined March 2010
Today let's take a look at our Editor of the Year MJA Awards 2025 shortlist. We have @jameshalliwell from C+D, @journojennifer from The BMJ and @FinScotland from TBIJ - Congrats all! See the full details of their work below
mjauk.org
Finalists for the 2025 Medical Journalists' Association Awards revealed. Winners announced Sept 17. Thanks to principal sponsor AstraZeneca
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Thanks @gijn. I know we say this all the time but… it was a whole team effort and what a great global health team they are @TBIJ The key to our reporting is making a real impact. There’s more to come soon…
💫 NEW! Two reporters from @TBIJ’s global health team explain how they uncovered the shady world of phony snakebite anti-venom. 📝 Paul Eccles & @FinScotland.
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Global leaders have agreed to reduce the number of people dying from superbugs by 2030 The United Nations declaration aims for a 10% fall in deaths caused by antimicrobial resistance https://t.co/NqGY7PmlDF
thebureauinvestigates.com
Signatories have agreed to secure clean water in medical facilities and cut antibiotic pollution in the environment
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“It will be the number one cause of death by 2050” says @miaamormotley chair of @glgamr to hit home how serious it is that our antibiotics and other antimicrobials don’t always work when we are sick. #amr On that note, @UN antimicrobial resistance High Level meeting kicks off.
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The good news is… antibiotic resistance is top of the agenda in New York this week. We are here for the United Nations High Level Meeting on antimicrobial resistance. It’s buzzing with people passionate about preventing situations like we are highlighting here 👇
Typhoid is an infection that’s often caused by contaminated food or water – in the past it was almost eliminated But drug-resistant variants of the illness have now made the infection more deadly👇 https://t.co/D7Un8DNKjl
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Really important work. Please read.
EXCLUSIVE: A former employee of tobacco giant Philip Morris has blown the whistle to @TBIJ, revealing a web of payments funding tobacco research Shiro Konuma told us: “We have to tell the people about this” (🧵) 1/8 https://t.co/7rKwQP5aXm
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Really hope this translates into justice and, even better, a culture change. Including for victims of extortion.
New offence comes into force in Scotland making it a crime to encourage or assist another person to self-harm. The law was first passed by the UK Govt & extended to the Scottish Parliament through a legislative consent motion. We'll speak to @MareeToddMSP
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🚨The UK government is planning to ban disposable vapes to clamp down on underage vaping https://t.co/m5lTziQLhf
🆕 We’re banning disposable vapes in the UK to protect children’s health. This is part of new measures to clamp down on underage vaping and create a #SmokefreeGeneration by making it illegal to sell tobacco products to anyone born on or after 1 January 2009. Details 🔻
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We're always open. Retweet this and help us reach someone who might need to know that we're here all Christmas 💚
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We need independent in-depth investigative journalism right now. Here’s how you can support it at its best. Please see the @TBIJ thread #investigativejournalism #investigativereporting and feel involved.
Today we’re launching Bureau Insiders – a membership community for those who believe in the power of investigative journalism to change the world 🌍 1/5 https://t.co/TFa4T4TZD9
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Earlier this week the transport secretary Mark Harper brought up ‘15-minute cities’ during the Conservative Party Conference His description wasn’t far off the mark, but then he went on to say that the concept was being “misused” 🤔 https://t.co/8cUPwOr84b
thebureauinvestigates.com
False conspiracy theories around 15-minute cities see a secret plot behind the proposals to place draconian restrictions on the movement of citizens
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Huge congratulations to the global health team @TBIJ who won this award tonight at #mjaawards for their incredible work. Great recognition @christinagiles @rosafurneaux @lauramarg and Paul Eccles for your dedication to making a difference.
The #MJAAwards Feature of the Year (General Audience) goes to @christinagiles @rosafurneaux @lauramarg and Paul Eccles for their @TBIJ investigation into poor quality and dangerous childhood cancer drugs. Highly commended to @Ben_Spencer
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This is what it feels like to be alive as we approach the end of the world as we know it. There is time to avoid the worst but it means every single one of us becoming activists. Leave it to other people and we are toast. Listen to David Attenborough who warned us time and again
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Doorstep murder: Possible suspect jailed on drugs charge. Worth knowing about this if you are following this case and hoping for justice. #doorstepmurder #truecrime
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The killing of father-of-two Alistair Wilson in Nairn is one of Scotland's biggest crime mysteries.
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This is on in 20mins and then available on @BBCSounds. It was a pleasure to work with @LaraLewington on this. Can the AI really let us put our feet up and make the documentary for us…?
A Documentary: By ChatGPT, on @BBCRadio4 & @BBCSounds, Monday 6th March at 8pm. The AI and I work together to tell the story of what this latest technology means for us humans.
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