Heidi Blake | |
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Born | Heidi Laura Blake [1] 1986 (age 38–39) Chatham, Kent, England [2] |
Alma mater | University of York |
Heidi Laura Blake (born April 1986) is an English journalist and author. She is the former assistant editor of The Sunday Times .
In 2008, Blake earned a degree in English and Politics with honors at the University of York. [3]
Blake worked for the Daily Telegraph . There she worked on a December 2010 undercover sting on Vince Cable. In 2011, she began working for the Sunday Times. In 2015, she was hired by BuzzFeed to head its UK investigative journalism team. [4]
In 2022, she joined The New Yorker as a contributing writer. [5]
In 2007, Blake, as editor of her university paper Nouse, won Student Journalist of the Year, feature writer of the year, and diversity writer of the year in the national student media awards sponsored by the Guardian newspaper. [6]
In 2014, Blake and Jonathan Calvert won three British Journalism Awards for their work as The Sunday Times’s Insight Team, including two for their FIFA investigation. [7]
In 2022, she won first place in the Katherine Schneider Journalism Award for Excellence in Reporting on Disability in the Large Media Category with Katie J.M. Baker for the story "Beyond Britney: Abuse, Exploitation, and Death Inside America’s Guardianship Industry," for BuzzFeed News. [8]
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