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Jess Staufenberg

@jessstaufenberg.bsky.social
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Journalist on corruption, climate, state of democracy @source-material.org. Former @schoolsweek.bsky.social @feweek.bsky.social, cofounder @pepforum.bsky.social. jess@source-material.org for stories or jhstaufenberg@gmail.com

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Jess Staufenberg @jessstaufenberg.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Hello to the education nerds. I'm launching a report I'm excited about, on the experiences of English private schools that converted to academies! Come and join the panel chat and audience Q & A in Westminster, Thursday 26 Feb, 6pm onwards...🧵 www.eventbrite.com/e/state-expe...
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State Expectations: The independent schools which switched sectors
A panel and audience Q&A discuss the history and experiences of English private schools that converted to academies and free schools.
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Rosa Furneaux @rosafurneaux.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
A hard post to start the new year: due to organisational changes at their funder, I've been laid off from my role as senior investigative reporter at @source-material.org. It’s been a privilege to work with such a talented and dedicated team on award-winning exposés across the climate beat
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Jess Staufenberg @jessstaufenberg.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I'm so grateful to belong to a newsroom that gives reporters time to investigate a story as complex and fascinating as this one by @marcusleroux.bsky.social Here's the story of Mr Mazzagatti, set to buy up North Sea gas fields & dogged by fraud accusations. www.source-material.org/mazzagatti-v...
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North Sea Storm – SourceMaterial
Poised to take control of ‘the backbone of the UK’s energy production’, Franceso Mazzagatti is defending allegations bribery, forgery and fraud
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 22/09/2025
Click on this link to see all the winners of this year's Covering Climate Now awards: coveringclimatenow.org/projects/the...
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The 2025 CCNow Journalism Awards — Covering Climate Now
Covering Climate Now is thrilled to announce the winners of the 2025 CCNow Journalism Awards. Our awards program, now in its fifth year, honors excellent reporting on many critical dimensions of the c...
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 22/09/2025
And watch the documentary edited by Le Monde here: www.source-material.org/total-mozamb...
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Total’s Mozambique gas project faces scrutiny over abuse claims
Governments are reviewing support $20 billion gas project after SourceMaterial revealed abuse allegations against troops defending Mozambique site
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 22/09/2025
We're delighted to have won in the 'Conflict & Climate Change' category at this year's Covering Climate Now awards with a project in partnership with our colleagues at Le Monde 🏆
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 29/09/2025
Many other excellent journalists and stories were nominated. You can see the full shortlist here: www.societyofeditors.org/events/media...
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Shortlist 2025 – Society of Editors
Society of Editors. Protecting the freedom of the news media
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 29/09/2025
Our story investigated millions of used UK tyres being shipped to India to make dirty fuel, harming people and the environment in the process. Read more here: www.source-material.org/waste-tyre-p...
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Burning Rubber – SourceMaterial
Millions of used UK tyres are being shipped to India to make dirty fuel harming people and the environment
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 29/09/2025
We're very pleased to have been shortlisted for the Society of Editors Media Freedom Awards 2025 for our story 'Burning Rubber: the poisonous afterlife of waste tyres', in partnership with the BBC.
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Jess Staufenberg @jessstaufenberg.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
After meeting the boss of a waste picker association in a cafe in South Korea, it took 6 months to follow him back to his home city of Accra and unpack what he had been saying to me over coffee at the UN's plastic treaty talks. Story published today with Al Jazeera. Quick 🧵
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Jess Staufenberg @jessstaufenberg.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
It's so not cool to read that financial aid for studying journalism (like the brilliant @nctj.bsky.social) could be removed by Dept of Education. Angry rebuttal from Society of Editors below. I 100% agree. Journalism needs to get less posh, not more... www.societyofeditors.org/soe_news/the...
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Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air @creacleanair.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
🇪🇺 📽️ Last year, the EU spent EUR 22 bn on Russian fossil fuels ⚠️ It is enabling President Putin to continue his war 🎤 The @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social‬ & @vicderbyshire.bsky.social‬ speak with @ec.europa.eu‬ Vice-President @kajakallas.bsky.social‬ www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHjp...
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Jess Staufenberg @jessstaufenberg.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Good to see that our investigation into waste tyres with my top colleague @atikarehman.bsky.social and our co-reporters at BBC File on 4 Investigates was debated in Westminster this week!
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 23/04/2025
Francis survived the attacks, going on to appoint 82 more cardinals before his death—many of whom will take part in the conclave to elect his successor. The voting will determine whether Francis was able to secure his reformist legacy, or if Burke’s conservative allies regain the Holy See.
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 23/04/2025
Bannon courted conservative critics of Francis, like Cardinal Raymond Burke, and planned to build a Catholic institute to act as a ‘gladiator school’ for the populist right. SourceMaterial and others exposed irregularities surrounding the institute’s headquarters, sparking a legal spat.
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 23/04/2025
Pope Francis was a pontiff in a new mould: an advocate for migrant rights and global action on climate change. Those positions won him powerful enemies. In 2019 our investigation The Heretic in the Vatican revealed the extent of the plot against him. www.source-material.org/the-heretic-...
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How Pope Francis became a hate figure for the far right
On a mountain outside Rome, Steve Bannon’s anti-immigrant populism joins forces with Catholic extremists who say a “gay plague” has infected the Vatican.
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Jess Staufenberg @jessstaufenberg.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Women over 50 were 'markedly underrepresented' in journalism. Overall 50% of journalist respondents were women but this fell to 36% among the over-50s. Let's change that...☀️
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
We've won! Faster than I would have imagined possible. In response to the threat of court proceedings issued by @fightingdirty.bsky.social, the Environment Agency has promised to review its policy on waste tyres shipped to India. With big thanks to our supporters. fightingdirty.org/major-victor...
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News | Fighting Dirty
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 04/04/2025
The Carbon Offset Trap: BBC File on 4 has taken an in-depth look at the current state of carbon markets. Our reporter @lukewbarratt.bsky.social spoke to them about some of their findings. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - File on 4 Investigates, The Carbon Offset Trap
Max de Haldevang investigates problems with carbon offset projects.
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 27/03/2025
"The Environment Agency is undertaking an internal review of its approach to waste tyre shipments to India." Two days after our report with @bbcradio4.bsky.social on UK tyres being dangerously 'boiled' in India, the UK announces a review of the trade. www.source-material.org/waste-tyre-p...
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Burning Rubber – SourceMaterial
Millions of used UK tyres are being shipped to India to make dirty fuel harming people and the environment
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Jess Staufenberg @jessstaufenberg.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Ever heard of a 'pyrolysis' plant? It's almost certainly where your car tyres will end up, sent by UK exporters to be 'boiled' into a toxic oil. The same plants are killing people. I've seen footage of kids, who lived on site, covered in burns. Read on: www.source-material.org/waste-tyre-p...
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Burning Rubber – SourceMaterial
Millions of used UK tyres are being shipped to India to make dirty fuel harming people and the environment
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Jess Staufenberg @jessstaufenberg.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
It feels when you watch a @mrjamesgraham.bsky.social script like the deepest love song to Britain, an old marriage that can hurt, and which could do with collective therapy--forgiveness and bravery towards one another amidst deep anger of the kind James' mum shows Jacob.
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Private Education Policy Forum @pepforum.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
“Taxpayers will rightly want to know why the SEND budget is lining the pockets of private equity firms” Private equity-owned special schools which charge councils fees of up to £131k p.a. have failed Ofsted checks @rosafurneaux.bsky.social @schoolsweek.bsky.social schoolsweek.co.uk/private-spec...
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£100k fees, but special private schools fail standards check
The Labour government plans new powers to intervene more quickly when private schools fail. Schools Week investigates
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Jess Staufenberg @jessstaufenberg.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Politicians are calling on other EU countries to stop exporting toxic gasoline to West Africa, following our story. The joint investigation showed Belgian and Dutch export bans risk being ineffective without a wider ban. (support @journalismfund.bsky.social) nos.nl/artikel/2556...
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Benelux: stop met de export van vuile benzine naar West-Afrika
Goedkope brandstof die te slecht is voor Europeanen, wordt gedumpt in West-Afrika.
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Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
❗ Exclusive: Private equity-owned independent special schools which charge councils fees of up to £131,000 a year are among hundreds that have failed Ofsted standards checks Full story ⬇️ buff.ly/41g3uEq
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£100k fees, but special private schools fail standards check
The Labour government plans new powers to intervene more quickly when private schools fail. Schools Week investigates
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 13/02/2025
🧵Twice a day, sirens sound in the shadow of Touk Meas Mountain in Kampot province, Cambodia. "We're often coughing," said Pheara, who lives nearby. Here, a cement kiln producing hazardous emissions is supposedly at the heart of the global fight against plastic pollution.
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Luke Barratt @lukewbarratt.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Great to see @luciemheath.bsky.social nominated for environment journalist of the year at the Press Awards! Congratulations, well-deserved www.thepressawards.com/finalists/lu...
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Lucie Heath
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Jess Staufenberg @jessstaufenberg.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
We've published another top story on plastic credits @lukewbarratt.bsky.social + @afpnews.bsky.social Plastic burned as fuel gives companies 'plastic neutral' status but pumps out toxins and dust. Graph shows the firms selling credits,% of plastic burned: source-material.org/plastic-cred...
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SourceMaterial @source-material.org · 12/02/2025
NEW: A cement kiln in Cambodia, burning plastic, is supposedly at the heart of the global fight against plastic pollution. Locals say they've been getting sick ever since it was built, as have their children. www.source-material.org/plastic-cred...
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Burning plastic and emitting toxic gases central to ‘plastic offsetting’
Plastic offsetting sector’s preferred solution puts the climate and people’s health at risk, without curbing production.
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