With just two weeks to go until we send DG#27 off to the printers, the issue is coming together nicely. Covering April to June 2017, the new issue will span the globe, with Slow Journalism perspectives on Kenya, Iraq, Romania, the Philippines and many other places.

Here are some sneak previews: snaps taken over the shoulder of our art director Christian Tate. If you’d like to be one of the first to receive the issue, there’s still time to subscribe. We’ll throw in a free copy of our current issue as well if you use promotion code ‘SOCIAL20’.

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We didn’t go to Gabon to find a massacre. We went to cover a football tournament. But one morning between the group stage and the quarter-finals of the 31st Africa Cup of Nations, as we headed with a dull sense of responsibility to a press conference being held by Jean Ping, the leader of Gabon’s largest opposition party, we stumbled into something far more serious.

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The eyes of the world have been focused on Pyongyang in recent weeks as the war of words between Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un has escalated.

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Our news highlights from 12 months past, for your weekly dose of Slow Journalism perspective…

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“This is where we go to find bodies,” says David Garcia. The desert spreads out, vast and silent, all around us. Jagged mountain ridges rise in the distance. “There are lots of them out there.”

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In January 2017 the world got an unnerving glimpse into its automated future when a San Diego broadcaster uttered these five fateful words into the camera – and, overheard by a number of Amazon Echo devices in viewers’ homes, inadvertently triggered a rush on children’s toy residences.

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Our news highlights from 12 months past, for your weekly dose of Slow Journalism perspective…

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The residents of Eden returned to real life in March 2017. As participants on the Channel 4 show they had been assigned the task of building a community from scratch in the remote Ardnamurchan peninsula of the Scottish Highlands. Cut off from the world, they will have been surprised to learn about the geopolitical turmoil of the past year and – maybe most shockingly – Eden’s cancellation in August 2016, after only four episodes.

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Despite a backdrop of budget cuts and civil unrest, Rio 2016 was an Olympic Games to remember – for all the right reasons. Looking back on an eventful summer of sport in DG #24, we dug into Olympic history to see how it compared with Games gone by.

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Our news highlights from 12 months past, for your weekly dose of Slow Journalism perspective…

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The evacuation of eastern Aleppo 
got underway at noon on Thursday 15th December with the departure 
of 13 ambulances and 20 green buses. The most severely injured went first, along with their families and other civilians. By the end of the day, about 3,000 civilians had been moved out of the devastated Syrian city. As the operation began, Jan Egeland, the UN humanitarian adviser for Syria, estimated the total number of citizens requiring evacuation at 30,000.

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