The session will kick off with a 10-minute storytelling session describing Chris and Isobel’s investigation of Silicon Valley’s capture of journalism, labour, culture, and creativity. We’ll brin...
Isobel Cockerell
Isobel Cockerell is a senior reporter at Coda Story, where she covers technology, climate, migration, and historical reckoning. She joined Coda Story in 2018 after earning a master’s degree from Columbia Journalism School and has since published award-winning investigations into the Uyghur crisis in Xinjiang, digital borders, climate colonialism in Europe, and historical reckoning in Spain, Italy, and the UK.
In addition to her work at Coda, her reporting has appeared in The Guardian, The Economist, and Wired, among others. Her investigations were nominated for the Orwell Prize in 2023 and won the European Press Prize in 2020 and the European Climate Award in 2024. Her recent work includes a six-part series on Silicon Valley’s influence on religion, work, journalism, and culture, set to be published with Audible in April 2025.
Events IJF 2025
Climate in context: covering the climate crisis in a fractured world
The internet, as we currently know it, is in the midst of a crucial pivot. For much of the past decade, online life has been dominated by a handful of powerful social media platforms–walled gardens ...
