WiJ are delighted to present our latest event on investigative journalism, chaired by Prof Jane Martinson, journalist, academic and author of You May Never See Us Again about the Barclay family.
Sponsored by Pepsico and TSB the event will include network opportunities with fellow journalists, and businesses – with wine, drinks and refreshments served.
Featuring a brilliant guest panel:
Madison Marriage - FT special investigations editor. Madison leads a team of reporters investigating misconduct and abuse of power across business, politics, housing, education and beyond. Since joining the FT 12 years ago she has held a number of correspondent positions covering asset management, tax and accounting. She joined the investigations desk in 2019 after delivering two award-winning investigations into sexual harassment at the elite Presidents Club charity dinner and the defenestration of advertising mogul Sir Martin Sorrell.
Imogen Barrer is a multi-award winning journalist and the Head of Investigations & Special Projects at ITV News.
Her investigations into Partygate, Britain's social housing scandal, and the UK's hidden homelessness crisis won 6 Royal Television Society TV Journalism Awards across 2022, 2023, and 2024. Her work has also won a Broadcast Award, an AIB award for Best UK Documentary, and she is a 2024 Orwell Prize, BAFTA, and British Journalism Awards nominee for stories including 'Amazon's Waste Scandal.' Originally from New Zealand, Imogen started her journalism career in radio and worked in regional and national newsrooms before joining ITN. As a producer, she travelled across the UK and internationally, working on some of the biggest news stories of the last decade. At ITV News, Imogen leads teams working on a wide range of investigations.
Hannah Cogan who has worked for Panorama, Dispatches and Unreported World. She is a producer and journalist working across current affairs and specialist factual programming, particularly covering American politics and history, and has made programs for Channel 4, BBC 1, National Geographic, Netflix, YouTube and Channel 5. Hannah has set up filming in the White House, Trump Campaign, Congress and Westminster, as well as in hospitals, police units, and abortion clinics. She has developed films for production around the world, and worked extensively across the United States.
Alison Phillips. Commentator, Editor, Journalist and Vice President of the Society of Editors. Senior advisor, MHP Group and columnist , New Statesman. As former Editor in Chief at The Mirror, Alison showed unparalleled brilliance at translating complex political corporate and business stories of importance for a fast moving tabloid audience.