Isobel Cockerell

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.

Disinformation
How California’s wildfires are fuel for propaganda
Oligarchy
The super-rich and their secret worlds
Authoritarian Technology
Does Trump need Taiwan to make America great again?
Surveillance and Control
I’m a neurology ICU nurse. The creep of AI in our hospitals terrifies me
Authoritarian Technology
Legendary Kenyan lawyer takes on Meta and Chat GPT
Climate Crisis
Azerbaijan throws climate journalists in jail ahead of Cop29
Oligarchy
Silicon Valley’s sci-fi dreams of colonizing Mars
Disinformation
I’m protesting Georgia’s ‘Russian law.’ The police beat me up mercilessly
Newsletters
Georgia’s new iron curtain
Newsletters
Calamity Kate and the failed Photoshop