BuzzFeed hires Heidi Blake to head UK investigative journalism team
Sunday Times assistant editor won awards for Qatar World Cup bid scoop and was also involved in Telegraph’s Vince Cable ‘I’ve declared war on Murdoch’ sting
BuzzFeed has hired Heidi Blake, whose reporting credits include the award-winning story into alleged bribery by Qatar to win the 2022 World Cup, to set up and lead a UK investigative journalism unit.
The social sharing news and entertainment site has hired Blake, a Sunday Times assistant editor attached to the paper’s Insight investigative team, to lead a soon-to-be recruited team of initially three reporters.
Blake’s appointment is the first expansion of BuzzFeed News’s investigations unit beyond the US.
This article highlights the fact that the difference between the so called 'professional journalism' written for broadsheets and online journalism is becoming blurred as online news service Buzzfeed have now hired a professionally acclaimed journalist to write and investigate stories, highlighting the growing power and influence of online news.
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