Breaking news at the end of the earth

Until the end of April, Lauren Lipuma was the editor of The Antarctic Sun, the biggest and longest-running paper on the globe’s least-populated continent. When we first speak, over Zoom in January, she is seated in a conference room that looks like every other conference room. Except this one’s nestled in a peninsula jutting from an island at the edge of Antarctica, on McMurdo, which comprises 146 buildings and around a thousand summer residents — and is by far the largest settlement on the continent.

Though she occasionally works with a freelance network of scientists and others living on the ice, Lipuma writes the bulk of the stories herself.

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