Stories about COVID-19 and the United States attracted the most eyes in 2020 — a year of substantial growth in News Decoder’s worldwide traffic. A man walks past a boarded-up store with coronavirus-inspired graffiti, New York, 7 May 2020. (AP Photo/Mary...
This quiz is now closed. Stay tuned for our next Decoder quiz later this Spring! We’re back with our periodic News-Decoder quiz. The 10 questions in this quiz are all based on “decoders” that we’ve published since last September. The questions...
This is the final installment of a six-part ghost story by Paul Spencer Sochaczewski, excerpted exclusively from the author’s new book, Dead but Still Kicking. *** Rustammy brings Dewi out of the trance, and this time it seems like Farida has genuinely left....
This is the fifth installment of a six-part ghost story by Paul Spencer Sochaczewski, excerpted exclusively from the author’s new book, Dead but Still Kicking. In the first installment, the Geneva-based author took us to Indonesia to meet the sultan of a city...
This is the fourth installment of a six-part story by Paul Spencer Sochaczewski, excerpted exclusively from the author’s new book, Dead but Still Kicking. In the first installment, the Geneva-based author took us to Indonesia to meet the sultan of a city built...
By Ben Barber In the last decade, one in four journalism jobs in the United States has disappeared. Hundreds of U.S. newspapers have closed. Meanwhile, around the world from Turkey to Poland, to Thailand, to Russia, to China, to Pakistan, billions of people can’t buy...
We know that vampires and ghosts don’t exist. Or maybe they do? Better to know what to expect from a pontianak spirit — before they eat your organs. This is the third installment of a six-part story by Paul Spencer Sochaczewski, excerpted exclusively from...
This is the second installment of a six-part story by Paul Spencer Sochaczewski. In the first installment, the Geneva-based author took us to Indonesia to meet the sultan of a city built on a ghost story. In this installment, excerpted exclusively from...
Paul Spencer Sochaczewski taps his fertile imagination and vast knowledge of Southeast Asia in this short story, his fourth published by News-Decoder. Previously, the Geneva-based writer entertained readers with alluring yarns about the South China Sea, Borneo and...
Are you worthy of being a foreign minister? Ambassador? Policy maker? Or more simply — have you been paying attention? Test your knowledge with our latest quiz — the Decoder Challenge — and find out. We’ve based our eight questions on News-Decoder articles from...