Jonathan Calvert
Jonathan Calvert is the longest serving editor of the Insight team in its 54 year history, having held the job for a decade. His first scoop for the team was exposing the cash for questions scandal as an undercover Insight reporter in 1994, and he was head-hunted soon afterwards to become investigations editor at The Observer where he oversaw a string of major exclusives. Since returning to his real home at The Sunday Times Jonathan has taken the helm of the Insight team and steered it through long line of famous exclusives – most recently the Fifa files investigation which made waves around the world. He has been won a multitude of journalism awards, including scoop of the year on three occasions. Awarded Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards in 2015.
Jonathan Calvert was selected for the 2016 European Press Prize shortlist with ‘the FIFA scandal’
Heidi Blake
Heidi Blake is BuzzFeed’s UK Investigations Editor. Her multi-award winning team of reporters has uncovered explosive evidence of 14 Russian assassinations on British soil, widespread match-fixing at the top of world tennis, the identities of two masked ISIS executioners responsible for dozens of beheadings, suspected money laundering by the Conservative Party’s biggest financial backer, rampant corruption in Britain’s prisons, deliberate customer abuse by the UK’s biggest bank, and the use of hundreds of illegal raids by Britain’s leading crime agency. Heidi was previously Assistant Editor of The Sunday Times, attached to the Insight investigations team, where her work on corruption at FIFA helped bring down Sepp Blatter. She is the co-author of The Ugly Game (Simon & Schuster, 2015), a devastating account of the Qatari plot to buy the rights to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup, and has won 18 national and international media awards.
Heidi Blake was selected for the 2016 European Press Prize shortlist with ‘The FIFA scandal’
