Isobel Cockerell

Senior Reporter
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Isobel Cockerell is a senior reporter with Coda. She joined Coda in 2018 after graduating from Columbia Journalism School. She writes about historical reckonings, dystopia, surveillance, conspiracies and climate. She was nominated for the 2023 Orwell prize and was the winner of the 2020 European Press Prize.

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Georgia’s new iron curtain
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