“In 2021, we have a chance to learn from a crisis we were largely unprepared to cover.”
The biggest story of 2020 probably the biggest story of our lifetimes was a global one, and covering it effectively required global collaboration among journalists and news organizations.
Media in the United States needed to have eyes and ears in China, Italy, Iran, and other hot spots in order to know what was coming. They needed reporting from all over from Taiwan and Senegal to Brazil and the U.K. to know which strategies were succeeding and which ones were failing. And as the race for a vaccine heated up, they needed to tell their audiences what was happening in Asia and Europe, and how progress there would impact the health of Americans.
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Isabel dos Santos has built her empire across sectors: from an investment in a beach bar to stakes in oil, banking, finances and telecommunications, proved businesswoman. Her career as an entrepreneur would have been inspiring if it wasn’t for the fact that her father, José Eduardo dos Santos, was a dictator in Angola for 38 years. Dos Santos had access to high-powered networks and riches fuelled by public funds amassed by her father during his tenure. While she created her own multibillion-dollar empire, the Luanda Leaks – documents mined by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists – show how Dos Santos used tax consultants, lawyers and accountants to siphon millions out of Angola. Today, her empire is finally crumbling as she faces allegations of corruption, money laundering, and fraud. – Bernice Maune
New incorporation numbers hit a 20-year low in 2019, and they are on track to fall further this year. The total number of active companies also hit at least a 13-year low last year. Above is the Registry of Corporate Affairs in Pasea. (Photo: CLAIRE SHEFCHIK)
Shortly before the Covid- 19 pandemic began to wreak havoc on the global economy, the Virgin Islands quietly reached its own troubling economic milestone: New company incorporations, long viewed as the bread and butter of the financial services industry, hit a 20-year low of 26,150 in 2019, falling to about a third of their 2007 peak.
This year, they are on track to drop even further, with just 10,000 companies incorporated through the end of June, down 3,579 from the same period in 2019.
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