Basia Cummings

Basia Cummings is deputy editor of The Observer. Before this, she was an editor and partner at Tortoise. She was the executive editor of numerous investigative podcast series including Sweet BobbyHoaxed and Hidden Homicides (shortlisted for the 2022 Orwell Prize); and reporter of Pig Iron, which one Best Documentary at 2023 British Podcast Awards, and Left to Die, which won the 2021 Foreign Press Award for best podcast. Before joining Tortoise, Basia worked on the foreign desk at the Guardian and was news editor of HuffPost UK.

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