Gabriel Pogrund

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Gabriel Pogrund (born 1993 or 1994{{cite press release |author1=Baron, Martin| author2= Barr, Cameron|title=Gabriel Pogrund named 2018 Stern Fellow at The Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/wp/2018/03/26/gabriel-pogrund-named-2018-stern-fellow-at-the-post/ |website=The Washington Post |date = 6 March 2018|access-date=17 January 2025}}) is a journalist who is currently Whitehall editor at The Sunday Times.{{cite web |title=UK Media Moves including The Sunday Times, Reach, Wales Online and more |url=https://www.cision.com/2021/10/uk-media-moves-sunday-times-reach-wales-online/ |website=Cision |access-date=15 September 2022}}

He graduated with a BA in Geography from University College London in 2016.

He won 2017 Young Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards and in 2018 was a Stern Fellow at The Washington Post.{{cite web |title=Gabriel Pogrund |url=https://www.thetimes.com/profile/gabriel-pogrund?page=1 |website=The Times |access-date=15 September 2022}} In 2020, Pogrund and Patrick Maguire published Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn.

In 2021, Pogrund and John Collingridge won a British Journalism Award for anti-corruption journalism for their reporting on the Greensill scandal.{{cite web |title=British Journalism Awards 2021 – winners announced |url=https://www.inpublishing.co.uk/articles/british-journalism-awards-2021-winners-announced-20224 |website=InPublishing |date= 10 December 2021|access-date=14 October 2022}} In 2022 he made the shortlist for the Paul Foot Award, for reporting on how Prince Charles's household had allegedly promised honours in exchange for donations to the Prince's charities.{{Cite web|url=https://www.private-eye.co.uk//paul-foot-award/2022|title=The Paul Foot Award | Private Eye Online|website=www.private-eye.co.uk}}

Pogrund also broke the story of BBC chairman Richard Sharp failing to declare perceived conflicts of interest, which ultimately resulted in Sharp's resignation in April 2023.{{cite news |title=BBC chairman Richard Sharp resigns after Boris Johnson loan row |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-65338490 |date = 28 April 2023|access-date=28 April 2023 |work=BBC News }}

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