James Pearson
@pearswick.press
Multi award-losing journalist and European Cybersecurity Correspondent at @Reuters.com, via Hanoi, Seoul and Pyongyang. Now in London.
“A bum who wrote an ignominious jumble of stories”
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Scoop here, by @ajvicens.bsky.social www.reuters.com/business/med...
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October 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Scoop here, by @ajvicens.bsky.social www.reuters.com/business/med...
My colleagues in Beirut have also just put out a fascinating follow-up piece, one year later, in which they interviewed some of the people still living with injuries sustained in the attack: www.reuters.com/world/middle...
A year on, Lebanese maimed in Israel's pager attacks on long road to recovery
Zainab Mustarah once spent her days running an events planning firm in Beirut. But for the last year, she has been in and out of surgery to save the remnants of her right hand and both eyes.
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October 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
My colleagues in Beirut have also just put out a fascinating follow-up piece, one year later, in which they interviewed some of the people still living with injuries sustained in the attack: www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Listen to part one here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...
For paid members of the podcast's Declassified Club, there'll be an interview with me about some of the investigative techniques we used to break the story, which comes out tomorrow.
For paid members of the podcast's Declassified Club, there'll be an interview with me about some of the investigative techniques we used to break the story, which comes out tomorrow.
Mossad Pager Attack: The Long War with Hezbollah (Ep 1)
Podcast Episode · The Rest Is Classified · 28/09/2025 · 49m
podcasts.apple.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Listen to part one here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...
For paid members of the podcast's Declassified Club, there'll be an interview with me about some of the investigative techniques we used to break the story, which comes out tomorrow.
For paid members of the podcast's Declassified Club, there'll be an interview with me about some of the investigative techniques we used to break the story, which comes out tomorrow.
The series is grounded in the @reuters.com investigation by myself, @david-gv.bsky.social and Maya Gebeily, in which we revealed the hidden mechanisms behind the design of the pager-bombs: www.reuters.com/graphics/ISR...
How Israel’s bulky pager fooled Hezbollah
An invisible detonator and wafer-thin plastic explosives turned batteries into bombs
www.reuters.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
The series is grounded in the @reuters.com investigation by myself, @david-gv.bsky.social and Maya Gebeily, in which we revealed the hidden mechanisms behind the design of the pager-bombs: www.reuters.com/graphics/ISR...
In his new clothes store in the heart of Ukraine’s frontline city of Kramatorsk, Maksym Lysenko suddenly stops talking and listens. “There,” he says, leaning towards the window looking onto the street. “It's going to dive. it’s going to drop.” www.reuters.com/world/ukrain...
Ukraine’s frontline cities filled with dread and defiance
Reuters travelled to the frontline cities of Kramatorsk and Sloviansk where Russian kamikaze drones hover in the skies looking for targets, forcing tens of thousands of people still living there to choose: Do I stay or do I go?
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October 1, 2025 at 8:22 AM
In his new clothes store in the heart of Ukraine’s frontline city of Kramatorsk, Maksym Lysenko suddenly stops talking and listens. “There,” he says, leaning towards the window looking onto the street. “It's going to dive. it’s going to drop.” www.reuters.com/world/ukrain...