Jonathan Calvert is a multiple award-winning journalist. As the head of the Sunday Times’ Insight Team, in which he has been working for over 12 years, Jonathan is the longest-running editor in the company. He received a series of awards, including the Paul Foot award for the best campaign and research journalism, the Investigative Journalism of the Year Award, and the award for the sports journalist of the year. He was repeatedly declared the most influential British journalist. He recently achieved incredible success with his piece on corruption in FIFA, which eventually led to the fall of senior FIFA officials. Together with his colleague Heidi Blake he described the sensational investigative process in The Ugly Game book.
When Jonathan Calvert and his team at Sunday Times received hundreds of millions of documents from whistleblowers, they spent months investigating one of the biggest scandals in football history. The so-called “FIFA documents” revealed the truth behind the surprising fact that the World Cup 2022 organization was given to Qatar, a country without any football tradition, with unfavorable climate and no proper infrastructure. Furthermore, their research indirectly led to the fall of FIFA as it was.
At the Weekend Media Festival, Johnathan will show why research journalism is more important today than ever.
