STAFF
Iain Overton, Managing Editor
Iain Overton is the Managing Editor of the Bureau. Prior to this, he was a commissioning executive at ITN and a senior producer at the BBC. His work to date includes investigations into the international trade in counterfeit pharmaceuticals, corporate killings in Iraq, human rights abuses by the Brazilian police and Glasgow gang-land murders linked to security contracts. Iain has worked in over 85 countries around the world. His work has been recognized with a Peabody Award, an Amnesty International Award, a OneWorld Award, a Prix Circom, a BAFTA Scotland and 3 RTS nominations, amongst others. To contact Iain Overton please go here.
Rachel Oldroyd, Deputy Editor
Rachel Oldroyd is the Deputy Editor of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. Before joining the Bureau, Rachel spent 13 years at the Mail on Sunday, where she worked closely with many of today’s best investigative journalists and launched the award-winning Reportage section in Live magazine. This magazine focused heavily on human rights violations and, under her editorship, won more than a dozen top media awards.
Angus Stickler, Lead Reporter: angusstickler@tbij.com
Angus is the Bureau’s lead reporter. He joined the Bureau after 16 years as a staff reporter at the BBC. He worked primarily for the Today Programme on Radio 4, but has reported across many BBC outlets. While he is best known for his award winning investigations into child abuse within the Catholic Church and children’s homes, his repertoire ranges from exposes of catastrophic failings within the MoD, the Muslim insurgency in southern Thailand, extra-judicial killings in Brazil and the abuse and murder of “child witches” in West Africa and Britain. Angus has won numerous awards. In 2006 he was named News Journalist of the Year at the Sony Radio Academy Awards. In 2011 he won the Thomson Reuters reporting Europe award for the Bureau’s investigation into EU structural funds.
Melanie Newman, Print Reporter: melanienewman@tbij.com
melanienewman@tbij.com Melanie Newman joined the Bureau in April 2010. Prior to that, she worked as chief reporter and deputy news editor at Times Higher Education. In 2009 she was commended in Private Eye’s Paul Foot Awards for an expose on London Metropolitan University. While at Hospital Doctor magazine (part of Elsevier Health Sciences) she was twice short-listed for a Norwich Union medical journalism award.
FREELANCERS
The Bureau has an expanding and contracting group of freelance journalists it calls upon to conduct key investigations. At its busiest time it has had over 30 people working at the Bureau. The more senior members of this freelance pool include:
Nick Mathiason, Business Correspondent: nickmathiason@tbij.com
Nick Mathiason has been a journalist for over 20 years working across Fleet Street mostly at the Guardian and Observer where he was Business Correspondent investigating private equity, access to medicine, tax abuse and corruption stories. Twice shortlisted for major international newspaper awards, Nick has presented packages for BBC Radio 4’s World Tonight and regularly appears on television and radio.
Chris Woods, Senior Reporter
Chris Woods is an award-winning London-based investigative journalist and documentary film maker. He specialises in world affairs, notably the global war on terror. For many years he was based at the BBC, working as a senior producer on flagship programmes Newsnight and Panorama. More recently, he has written and directed major documentaries for Channel 4′s Dispatches and for Al Jazeera. He leads the Bureau’s covert war investigation team, recently shortlisted for a Foreign Press Association award and has worked with the Bureau since spring 2010.
