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I don't write very often so am not really deserving of a journalism end-of-year thread, but here are a few things I was proud of this year anyway!
our team at @ipaperviews won best commentary site of the year at the 2020 Drum Online Media awards for the 'broad diversity of voices' we featured, and the site as a whole won News Website of the Year
Our writers had a great year too - too many achievements to list here, but the late, great Deborah Orr was named broadsheet columnist of the year; and @ianbirrell won the 2020 Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain's Social Evils
We covered the pandemic through the voices of experts, journalists, and ordinary people - everyone from vaccine trial participants to celebrities, epidemiologists and someone living with Alzheimer's
chatting to readers was a theme throughout - it was tricky at times (one asked my advice on whether she could hold her husband's hand in the morgue after he died of Covid-19) but was a reminder of how much of a community a publication can create
Like everyone else in the world I binged Normal People in about four seconds flat https://inews.co.uk/culture/normal-people-bbc3-review-sally-rooney-improves-422340
I edited some editions of the paper, often from my bedroom - including the one marking the paper's 10th anniversary, and today's
I reported on the anti-vaxxer 'movement', and how perceptions of it are often wrong and unhelpful https://inews.co.uk/news/analysis/covid-vaccines-explained-vaccine-refusers-understanding-persuasion-mmr-jab-770712
For @prospect_uk, I wrote about the explosion of the sleep industry, and how it's keeping us awake at night https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/cant-sleep-lockdown-quarantine-problems-why-coronavirus-nightmares-help
and finally, dwarfing any other achievements in my life thus far, I baked approximately one billion Christmas biscuits and completely lost the plot in the process https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/food-and-drink/christmas-cookie-boxes-biscuits-presents-797667
happy new year, and thank you to my colleagues and everyone who's written for us this year - can't wait for the slow news days that await us sometime soon (pls god)
