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| 2025 | Left the New York Times during a round of job cuts in the Opinion section. |
| March 2025 |
Laid off along with the entire FiveThirtyEight staff when the site was shut down.
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| 2025 | Anticipated publication of 'Birds, Sex and Beauty: The Extraordinary Implications of Charles Darwin's Strangest Idea'. |
| February 2025 | Joyce spoke at an event at Balliol College, Oxford, discussing her views on transgender issues, sex, and gender, which resulted in a walkout by pro-trans protesters and a petition signed by over 600 people protesting 'transphobia'. |
| 2024 | Contested the general election as a Liberal Democrat candidate, finishing third with 4,335 votes. |
| 2024 |
Glass Ceiling Index
The most recent Glass Ceiling Index expanded to ten indicators and now covers 29 OECD countries, highlighting gender disparities in areas such as education, workforce participation, management roles, and leadership positions.
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| 2024 | Awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (Peace Prize of the German Book Trade), a prestigious international literary award. |
| 2024 | John Heilemann's marriage to Diana Rhoten ended. |
| October 2024 |
John Micklethwait
Interviewed President-elect Donald Trump at the Economic Club of Chicago as Bloomberg's top editor.
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| September 2024 |
John Micklethwait
John Micklethwait quietly married actress Kristin Scott Thomas following a five-year romantic relationship.
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| May 2024 | Launched H2Org with Rabbi Harvey Belovski, a venture aimed at inspiring and supporting personal growth and success. |
| February 2 2024 | Published a 5,000-word opinion piece titled 'Gender Dysphoric Kids Deserve Better Care', which discussed stories of people who detransitioned after receiving gender-affirming care in their youth. |
| 2023 | Published 'Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World' through Yale University Press, exploring the historical significance of Vienna. |
| 2023 | Joyce's book 'Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality' was shortlisted for the John Maddox Prize. |
| 2023 | Published "Calming the storms: the Carry Trade, the Banking School and British Financial Crises since 1825", analyzing British financial crises and arguing that the Bank of England's monetary policy changes have significant implications for economic stability. |
| 2023 | Appointed as Junior Proctor of the University of Cambridge for the 2023/24 academic year. |
| 2023 | Her husband Radosław Sikorski returned to serve as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland. |
| May 2023 | Hired by ABC News to lead FiveThirtyEight as editorial director of data analytics after Nate Silver's departure. |
| February 2023 | Joined Politico as Executive Editor - Head of Audio. |
| February 2023 | Gained national media attention through a Twitter thread discussing economic policy warnings related to the UK government's mini-budget, which was referenced in The Guardian. |
| 2022 | Published his third book 'The Age of the Strongman', which was named a Best Book of the Year by multiple prestigious publications including The Economist, Foreign Affairs, and The Times (UK). |
| 2022 | Oxford University awarded Cliff the degree of Doctor of Letters in recognition of his body of work of international importance, highlighting his significant contributions to scholarship. |
| 2022 | Became a member of the Commission for Universal Health convened by Chatham House, co-chaired by Helen Clark and Jakaya Kikwete. |
| 2022 | Paul stepped down from her role as editor of The New York Times Book Review after nearly a decade of leadership. |
| 2022 |
Dutch disease
World Bank ranked Nauru at 117th place, a significant drop from its previous status as the world's richest country by GDP per capita.
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| 2022 | Runners Up in the Merck Foundation Mask Up Award for Eastern Africa Countries, further recognizing her multimedia journalism skills. |
| 2022 | Won the Annual Journalism Excellence Award for Environmental Reporting in the Digital Category, demonstrating her expertise in digital and environmental journalism. |
| 2022 | Took a one-year unpaid sabbatical from The Economist to join Sex Matters as a director, which she later made a permanent role. |
| 2022 | Published "The Great Famine in Ireland and Britain's Financial Crisis", challenging existing narratives about the Irish famine's causes by arguing that British government's austerity measures following the February 1847 budget were primary contributors to the death toll. |
| 2022 | Described himself as 'a fairly centrist social democrat' and expressed qualified support for Sir Keir Starmer's leadership of the Labour Party. |
| 2022 | Upgraded to the Order of Princess Olga, second class. |
| November 2022 | Sanctioned by Russia as one of 200 US citizens for 'promotion of the Russophobic campaign and support for the regime in Kiev'. |
| October 2022 | Joyce participated in an interview at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, titled 'Criticising gender-identity ideology: what happens when speech is silenced', which was protested by demonstrators. |
| October 24 2022 | Steve Wembi disappeared after a meeting at the Léon hotel in Kinshasa, with suspicions of abduction by the government's National Intelligence Agency. The government spokesperson Patrick Muyaya denied knowledge of his whereabouts, causing his family to fear he may have been killed. |
| September 22 2022 | Read's letter comparing historical and current economic situations is independently published prior to the government's budget announcement. |
| September 8 2022 | Charles Read sends an unsolicited letter to Kwasi Kwarteng drawing parallels between historical economic challenges in 1847 and current UK economic conditions. |
| June 2022 | In a PinkNews report, Joyce was quoted speaking against transgender transitions, stating that 'every one of those people is a person who's been damaged'. |
| March 2022 | Moved from the Books section to the Opinion section at the New York Times, beginning to write weekly columns. |
| March 2022 | Joyce was disinvited from a panel discussion for trainee child psychiatrists organized by Great Ormond Street Hospital and Health Education England due to allegations against her. |
| March 7 2022 | Marr aired his first show on LBC, marking the start of his new role at Global media and beginning his 'fast-paced political journalism' in his own voice. |
| January 2022 | Justin Smith stepped down as CEO of Bloomberg Media Group to found Semafor, a new media company, with former New York Times journalist Ben Smith. |
| January 2022 | Invited to testify before the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on 'Bolstering Democracy in the Age of Rising Authoritarianism'. |
| 2021 |
Bruce Clark
Published 'Athens: City of Wisdom', a cultural history of the Greek capital, further establishing his expertise in historical and cultural writing.
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| 2021 |
Glass Ceiling Index
Statista provided data for the Glass Ceiling Index, highlighting workplace gender disparities.
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| 2021 | Concluded his fellowship at Harris Manchester College, Oxford, after a five-year tenure. |
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