Isobel Cockerell

Isobel Cockerell

Senior Reporter
@isocockerell
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Isobel Cockerell is a senior reporter with Coda, based in Rome. 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.

Newsletters
Jacinda Ardern’s post-pandemic burnout and fighting Covid in China with canned peaches
Technology
For Italy’s right wing, cash is still king
Science & Health
The year in conspiracy theories
Disinformation
Antisemitism has never been new
Newsletters
15-billion-dollar train endangers Maya treasures, the wild theories of Meghan ‘truthers,’ US activists want ban on abortion meds
Disinformation
Meghan never stood a chance against the internet
Newsletters
Grab bag of conspiracies behind German coup plot, China’s Covid climb down, and methane cloud over Iran
Newsletters
Musk reopens door for Covid disinfo, Chinese trolls blame US for unrest and NZ couple reject blood from vaccinated donors
Science & Health
Britain’s ‘eco-warrior’ cyclists face digital death threats as debates rage over who owns the roads
Newsletters
ADHD prescriptions via TikTok, pro-life groups in Tennessee target IVF and Twitter’s blue check trolls