YearInReview: From the geopolitics of outer space to the finer points of cricket, no issue has been too complex for us to explain. Here are some of our most popular explainers for 2019.
How do you explain the finer points of sport?
Sport is challenging when it comes to explainers. Do you write for the diehard fans with encyclopaedic knowledge of their sport or for a broader audience of the sincerely curious? I’m on the “sincerely curious” side of the equation with sport, but I’m lucky enough to work with colleagues who are experts in their fields.
Click on the story below, which also includes expert insights and funny anecdotes from former Australian cricketers Geoff Lawson, Mark Taylor and Ian Healy.Our most widely read explainer this year was about the process of dying. That it was so well read was not a complete surprise to me.beautifully written by Sophie Aubrey and illustrated by Dionne Gain, has been read by more than half a million people.
We were inundated with feedback from readers, including this: "One of the best, if not the best, articles I have read in years." And this: "I have never read a piece of journalism where I genuinely felt moved to the point it gave me comfort regarding a traumatic event."On a more economic note, this was a year that saw the rise of unconventional monetary policies – with names such as quantitative easing. The word kept cropping up in reports.
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