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Heidi Blake is a British journalist and author. She is the former assistant editor of the Sunday Times.

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Education

Blake earned a degree in English and Politics with honors at the University of York. [1]

Career

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. [2]

In 2022, she joined The New Yorker as a contributing writer. [3]

Awards and honors

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. [4]

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. [5]

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. [6]

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References

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  2. "BuzzFeed hires Heidi Blake to head UK investigative journalism team | BuzzFeed | The Guardian". amp.theguardian.com.
  3. "Heidi Blake". The New Yorker.
  4. "Student 'thrilled' by national award win". News Shopper. December 4, 2007.
  5. "Andrew Norfolk named journalist of the year as Times and Sunday Times claim seven British Journalism Awards". December 2, 2014.
  6. "2022 Katherine Schneider Journalism Award for Excellence in Reporting on Disability and the Gary Corcoran Student Prize for Excellence in Reporting on Disability Award Ceremony".
  7. "THE UGLY GAME | Kirkus Reviews" via www.kirkusreviews.com.
  8. https://www.npr.org/2019/11/19/780467010/from-russia-with-blood-doesnt-capture-the-messy-nature-of-russian-politics
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