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Heidi Blake

Heidi Laura Blake is an English journalist and author. She is the former assistant editor of The Sunday Times. Since 2022, she has been working as an investigative reporter for The New Yorker, based in the United Kingdom.

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Heidi Blake
Born
Heidi Laura Blake1

1986 (age 39–40)
Chatham, Kent, England2
Alma materUniversity of York

Heidi Laura Blake (born April 1986) is an English journalist and author. She is the former assistant editor of The Sunday Times. Since 2022, she has been working as an investigative reporter for The New Yorker, based in the United Kingdom.

Education

In 2008, Blake earned a degree in English and Politics with honors at the University of York.3

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.4

In 2022, she joined The New Yorker as a contributing writer.5

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.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

Books

  • With Jonathan Calvert The Ugly Game: The Corruption of FIFA and the Qatari Plot to Buy the World Cup9
  • From Russia with Blood: The Kremlin’s Ruthless Assassination Program and Vladimir Putin’s Secret War on the West101112
References

References

  1. "University of York degree results - Part 2". York Press. 11 July 2008. Retrieved 22 April 2024.
  2. "Heidi Laura Blake". England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008. Retrieved 22 April 2024.
  3. "BuzzFeed News Hires Heidi Blake As UK Investigations Editor". BuzzFeed. January 13, 2015.
  4. Sweney, Mark (13 January 2015). "BuzzFeed hires Heidi Blake to head UK investigative journalism team | BuzzFeed | The Guardian". amp.theguardian.com.
  5. "Heidi Blake". The New Yorker.
  6. "Student 'thrilled' by national award win". News Shopper. December 4, 2007.
  7. "Andrew Norfolk named journalist of the year as Times and Sunday Times claim seven British Journalism Awards". December 2, 2014.
  8. "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".
  9. "THE UGLY GAME | Kirkus Reviews" – via www.kirkusreviews.com.
  10. Ragozin, Leonid (19 November 2019). "'From Russia with Blood' Doesn't Capture the Messy Nature of Russian Politics". NPR.
  11. "From Russia with Blood: The Kremlin's Ruthless Assassination Program and Vladimir Putin's Secret War on the West by Heidi Blake".
  12. "FROM RUSSIA WITH BLOOD | Kirkus Reviews" – via www.kirkusreviews.com.
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