Former British Journalism Awards journalist of the year Gabriel Pogrund has been named editor of the Sunday Times investigations team Insight.
Pogrund wasgiven the prestigious award in December 2023for work in his role as Whitehall editor.
The Sunday Times has now appointed him to lead an expanded investigations team as Insight editor.
Pogrund will be joined by two investigative correspondents: Emanuele Midolo, currently investigations reporter with a focus on crime, corruption and money laundering, and Venetia Menzies, currently visual investigations editor at The Times and Sunday Times.
A deputy editor will also be appointed to join the team, which will produce written, video and audio output starting in May.
Previous Sunday Times Insight editor Jonathan Calvert isalso a former British Journalism Awards journalist of the year winner, receiving the accolade in 2015.
Calvert, who had been Insight editor since 2005, and his deputy editor George Arbuthnott took voluntary redundancy earlier this year.
Sunday Times editor Ben Taylor said the newsbrand is “committed to ambitious investigations” and described the trio as “already a formidable team”.
He said Pogrund has “produced some of the most revelatory reporting in British journalism”.
His work has prompted the resignationof former chief whip Gavin Williamson over bullying allegations, revealed thepresence of a paid lobbyist as a close aide to short-lived UK premier Liz Truss, toldan untold tragedy at the heart of Britain’s secret intelligence community, and helped topple ex-BBC chairman Richard Sharp afterexposing murky financial details involving Boris Johnson.
Source: Press Gazette
