Articles & Op-eds

Sample op-eds and articles. Lots more can be found here

Investigative reporting

The following story on bird trafficking, in its Serbian version, won the 2023 Dejan Anastasijević Annual Award for Investigative Journalism. It also was awarded an honourable mention at the 2024 True Story Award.

How the European Union’s €1.114 billion investment to save the Danube Delta passed into the hands of a network of Romanian politicians, NGOs and businessmen. Shortlisted for the 2021 Fetisov Journalism Awards and winner of the 2022 Superscrieri press prize.

info-sud-est, 5 March 2021. Also in Süddeutsche Zeitung and NRC Handelsblad.

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Opinion: the fallacy of war

Business Day, 19 March 2025
Business Day, 3 April 2025
Business Day, 10 August 2022

Financial Mail, July 2020
Sunday Times, 11 April 2021

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Environmental reporting

Overfishing of krill

Süddeutsche Zeitung, 25 January 2025

The plans for giant seaweed farms in European waters

Süddeutsche Zeitung, 23 Sept 2022
BBC, 12 August 2022
BBC 8 August 2022

Opinion: in defence of democracy

Business Day, 20 January 2025
Business Day, 8 January 2024
Business Day, 31 May 2024
Sunday Times, 27 Dec 2020
Mail & Guardian, 3 July 2020
Business Day, 17 May 2017

Business reporting

Sunday Times, 16 August 2020
16 June 2019

2019 National Geographic Society project

“Smokestacks dominate. The Matimba and Medupi power stations lord over shacks, farms, houses, schools, busy churches, emptying shops, and gun stores arming a vast hunting industry. There’s a McDonald’s. And, underneath the carbon dioxide plume, the coal town of Lephalale roils in anger, racism, corruption and fading hope.”

Mail & Guardian, 29 April 2020

A few last words

Business Day, 9 September 2024
Business Day, 29 August 2024
Business Day, 31 July 2022
Sunday TImes, 27 Oct 2019
Sunday Times, 22 Dec 2019
Sunday Times, 13 Oct 2019