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Discover award-winning journalism from a different type of newsroom. We don't focus on breaking news, but what's driving it. We're committed to open, inclusive journalism that gives everyone a seat at the table, and takes the time to go deeper on the stories that matter most.

Here's three reasons to try the Tortoise app:
- it's free via a 30-day trial, and was awarded Apple’s ‘app of the day’ three times in 2020
- access live editorial events, called ThinkIns
- access all of our journalism, including audio investigations, long reads and our daily email

Live editorial events – ThinkIns:
Get unlimited access to live, interactive events with extraordinary experts. Have your say alongside our editors and invited guests on a range of topics. Guests this year have included Lemn Sissay, Tony Blair, Nicola Adams, Greg James, Elizabeth Day, James O'Brien George the Poet, and many more.

Long reads and investigations:
Slow down and wise up with investigative journalism from Tortoise journalists and contributing writers. Tortoise brings focus to the Big Five forces shaping our lives: the 100-year life, wealth, belonging, new things, our planet.

Award-winning audio stories and podcasts:
Get our weekly podcast, the Slow Newscast, every week in the members' app. There's also the Editor's Voicemail – our co-founder James Harding's take on the week just gone. We're working on more podcasts for the coming months so watch this space.

Sensemaker email:
Our daily newsletter is delivered straight to your inbox or in the members' app. Clear, calm analysis on the stories that matter most right now. Get opinion and an inside take from contributing writers (we recently had Bill Gates write on vaccine distribution).

About us:
At Tortoise we take the time to investigate what’s really going on; to make sense of news, politics and the forces shaping our future. We don’t just report on slow stories – we care about what happens next. With your help, we want to understand the issues and spend time examining the ideas that will make for a better 21st century. Tortoise is built with and for our members and is driven by a collective desire to dive beneath the surface of the daily news.
Our mission is to create journalism that lasts. That means building a business model that’s responsible and sustainable. It means not being owned by a proprietor with an axe to grind. It means being independent of any political party or commercial agenda.
In short, it’s about belonging to something rather than just paying for it. We don’t take ads, and we’ll never sell your data.
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