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December 6, 2019updated 30 Sep 2022 8:41am

Charity closes long-form science website written for by Lyra McKee with two jobs lost

By Charlotte Tobitt

An online science and health magazine will close next week after its charity proprietor decided it was unable to justify the extra resources needed to help it “thrive in a crowded digital landscape”.

The Wellcome Trust launched long-form magazine Mosaic in March 2014, publishing one article of 3,000-plus words each week. It turned fortnightly in 2017 and is now set to close next Tuesday.

Two journalists are being made redundant as a result: Mosaic’s editor Chrissie Giles and commissioning editor Rob Reddick.

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