Heidi Blake
{{Short description|British journalist and author}}
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Heidi Laura Blake (born April 1986) is an English journalist and author. She is the former assistant editor of The Sunday Times.
Education
In 2008, Blake earned a degree in English and Politics with honors at the University of York.{{Cite web|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeedpress/buzzfeed-news-hires-heidi-blake-as-uk-investigations-editor|title=BuzzFeed News Hires Heidi Blake As UK Investigations Editor|date=January 13, 2015|website=BuzzFeed}}
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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jan/13/buzzfeed-hires-heidi-blake-to-head-uk-investigative-journalism-team|title=BuzzFeed hires Heidi Blake to head UK investigative journalism team | BuzzFeed | The Guardian|website=amp.theguardian.com}}
In 2022, she joined The New Yorker as a contributing writer.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/heidi-blake|title=Heidi Blake|magazine=The New Yorker}}
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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/1879075.student-thrilled-by-national-award-win/|title=Student 'thrilled' by national award win|date=December 4, 2007|website=News Shopper}}
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.{{Cite web|url=https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/nationals/andrew-norfolk-named-journalist-year-times-and-sunday-times-claim-seven-british-journalism-awards/|title=Andrew Norfolk named journalist of the year as Times and Sunday Times claim seven British Journalism Awards|date=December 2, 2014}}
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.{{Cite web|url=https://cronkite.asu.edu/events/2022/national-center-on-disability-and-journalism-award-ceremony/|title=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}}
Books
- With Jonathan Calvert The Ugly Game: The Corruption of FIFA and the Qatari Plot to Buy the World Cup{{Cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/heidi-blake/the-ugly-game/|title=THE UGLY GAME | Kirkus Reviews|via=www.kirkusreviews.com}}
- From Russia with Blood: The Kremlin’s Ruthless Assassination Program and Vladimir Putin’s Secret War on the West https://www.npr.org/2019/11/19/780467010/from-russia-with-blood-doesnt-capture-the-messy-nature-of-russian-politics{{cite web | url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780316417235 | title=From Russia with Blood: The Kremlin's Ruthless Assassination Program and Vladimir Putin's Secret War on the West by Heidi Blake }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/heidi-blake/from-russia-with-blood/|title=FROM RUSSIA WITH BLOOD | Kirkus Reviews|via=www.kirkusreviews.com}}
References
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External links
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Category:Alumni of the University of York
Category:English women journalists
Category:Journalists from Kent
Category:People from Chatham, Kent
Category:The Times journalists
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