The Importance of Longform Investigative Journalism

A panel event as part of Fleet Street Quarter's Festival of Words

Nick Wallis is an award-winning freelance journalist and broadcaster. He has worked with the BBC, Private Eye and ITN. He was one of the first to break the Post Office Horizon scandal, when he learnt about Alan Bates' campaign back in 2010, and has been working on it ever since.

In the 1970s and 1980s almost 5,000 haemophiliacs were infected with HIV or hepatitis C after being given contaminated NHS blood products. So far more than 2,800 people are known to have died in what has been described as the 'worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS’. Sunday Times political editor Caroline Wheeler has been reporting on the scandal for two decades and has been pivotal to the campaign for justice for the victims. They discuss their stories and the vital importance this sort of long-form investigative journalism plays.

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This event is sponsored by the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Main Hall, Stationers' Hall, Ave Maria Lane, London, United Kingdom