“The forest had gone” // The Guardian Long Reads, August 2025
Longreads Editor’s Pick August 2025
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Der Sturm // Das Magazin, June 2025
Cover story and sole feature in 21 June edition of Das Magazin, Switzerland’s leading weekly. Published online in three parts.
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A National Evil // London Review of Books, November 2023
One of the LRB‘s 10 most-read articles of 2023; featured on the front page of Hacker News.
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Wie drei heldenhafte Ärzte die Schweiz vom Kropf erlösten // Das Magazin – Tages-Anzeiger, September 2022
Cover story for Switzerland’s leading weekly, and among the most-read articles in the country in 2022.
- winner Journalistenpreis 2023 | EbM-Netzwerk (link)
- winner Basil Hetzel Award | Iodine Global Network
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Works That Work (2013-2017) was a groundbreaking design magazine that ran for ten issues. In addition to writing, I was a member of its editorial board from 2014.
“Design magazine of the decade“
– Stack Magazines
My 2014 article on the siege of Sarajevo explored how ingenuity and improvisation drove a new kind of economy inside the city, and gave people the means – practical and psychological – to survive.
In 2016, I travelled to Bhutan for the magazine and wrote five long pieces about the country, on subjects ranging from hydropower, to national identity, to Bhutan’s first cinema, carried on the back of its first filmmaker to remote mountain villages.
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COLORS Editor 2010-2012, issues 78, 80, 81, 83, 84, 85
Contributing Editor 2012-2014, issues 86, 87, 88, 89, 90
“…a must-read for an intelligent, visually literate, and globally-minded reader. COLORS is one of a few magazines with the authority to change beliefs and behaviour… it’s journalism of the highest calibre.”
– 2013 Magpile Magazine Awards
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