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Suswati Basu

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Liverpool, London
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Covers:  iGaming, tech, disability, race, social politics, world news, culture, human rights, intelligence and OSINT, DEI, gender, mental health and books.
@RWW Managing Editor | @Howtobe247 | Ex @NationalWorld @Dataminr @itvnews @channel4news editor. Views my own. Work: #PredictionMarkets #gambling #betting #tech

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Suswati Basu’s Biography

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Suswati Basu is an award-winning multilingual disabled editor with significant experience in digital media at Channel 4 News and ITV News, who most recently worked as Head of Audience and Deputy Editor of NationalWorld. She is currently the news editor for iGaming site, ReadWrite.

She has been shortlisted for the Guardian Mary Stott Prize, and has also been longlisted for the Guardian International Development Journalism Award. Suswati was nominated for the International Women's Podcast Award …

Suswati Basu’s Journalist Portfolio

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Travelling with disabilities: I have to plan for everything, and yet manage to find the spontaneous

Travelling with disabilities: I have to plan for everything, and yet manage to find the spontaneous

During an Argentinian yoga retreat in 2016, Suswati Basu first experienced symptoms of a congenital degenerat…

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The Windrush generation: scandal is a reminder of how little we know about British history

The Windrush generation: scandal is a reminder of how little we know about British history

The Windrush scandal exposed the mistreatment of Caribbean migrants who had the right to live in the UK, high…

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A love letter to the UK's 5 million invisible caregivers - including my partner

A love letter to the UK's 5 million invisible caregivers - including my partner

Unpaid carers play a vital role in families, communities, and society as a whole

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Assisted Dying Bill: we need to talk about the good, the bad and the ugly deaths

Assisted Dying Bill: we need to talk about the good, the bad and the ugly deaths

The subject of death is never an easy conversation, but we're doing ourselves a disservice by not being hones…

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Why Shakespeare’s Macbeth is still as relevant as ever in Westminster

Why Shakespeare’s Macbeth is still as relevant as ever in Westminster

As the government elites dethrone and backstab each other, we see a real-life depiction of the themes explore…

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Tom Hanks book review: novel on magic behind motion pictures fails to ‘reach for the sky’

Tom Hanks book review: novel on magic behind motion pictures fails to ‘reach for the sky’

Tom Hanks' debut novel may have missed an opportunity to truly excel

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Articles

Bally’s finance chief exits as casino giant faces costly expansion pressures

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By Suswati Basu Verified
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Bally’s Corporation is changing finance chiefs as the casino company pours money into major developments, deals with financial pressure and fights over video gambling terminals in Chicago. Mira Mircheva told Bally’s she plans to leave her jobs as executive vice president and chief financial officer for personal reasons, according to the company’s Thursday announcement.
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Congress presses FanDuel again over VIP program and gambling safeguards concerns

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By Suswati Basu Verified
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Three members of Congress have renewed their pressure on FanDuel, saying the betting operator still has not explained how its VIP program handles customers who may be struggling with gambling problems. Sen. Richard Blumenthal and Reps. Paul D. Tonko and Valerie P. Foushee wrote to FanDuel CEO Christian Genetski on Thursday (September 3), following an August 14 response from the company that they considered insufficient. Sen. Blumenthal and U.S. Reps.
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NFL renews push to remove football contracts from prediction markets exchanges

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The NFL is again asking designated contract markets to pull several types of football-related prediction contracts, making another push as the 2026 season gets underway. A September 3 letter says exchanges are still listing contracts the league flagged in an earlier March 29 request. NFL officials argue those markets could undermine game integrity while exposing players, coaches, officials and exchange participants to additional risks.
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How is social media changing news?

Creating a bandwagoning effect and therefore forcing news organisations to become partial

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Nancy Wheeler and Murray Bauman from Stranger Things

What does it mean to be a journalist?

Giving a platform for the truth with empathy and sincerity, and avoiding polarisation.

Awards

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Guardian Mary Stott Prize

2007

The Mary Stott prize (named after the editor who steered these pages from 1957 to 1972), was the chance to edit the women's pages for a week; entrants had to send in five article ideas, a CV and a description of why they would best suit the job. The other was the chance to attend a party to celebrate our anniversary - in return for 300 words describing what the pages meant to them.

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Guardian International Development Journalism Award

2011

Many crucial issues facing the developing world are often overlooked or underrepresented by the media. The Guardian International Development Journalism competition aims to highlight some of them. They are searching for enthusiastic writers who want to demonstrate their journalistic abilities by examining these issues.

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Journalism Diversity Fund

2014

Four aspiring journalists have been awarded Journalism Diversity Fund bursaries to complete NCTJ-accredited training courses. Bursaries are awarded four times a year to students planning to study an NCTJ-accredited course. They are awarded to students from socially or ethnically diverse backgrounds and can help them cover the cost of course fees and living expenses.

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