International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

Michael Bilton, Britain, has spent 30 years working as a British investigative journalist, working for the London Sunday Times and Yorkshire Television - which was one of the UK's most prestigious documentary film making companies.

Michael Bilton, Britain

Along the way he has picked up several major awards in both media - being jointly named Reporter of the Year and winning a International Emmy as producer
of “Four Hours in My Lai” - about the infamous massacre in the Vietnam War.  More recently Bilton has spent the last 15 years as an investigative feature writer for the London Sunday Times Magazine,  while also writing for other major British newspapers including the Daily Express and the Daily Mail.  The subject of his investigations include Sandline - a private military company which hired South African mercenaries to put down a rebellion in Papua New Guinea; the lack of psychological care for veterans of the Falklands War; the abuse of children by Roman Catholic priests in Boston; sexism in the British police, and uncovering how the Free French Forces set up a torture centre under the noses of the British Government in the second World War. This last project arose out of the work he did with ICIJ on the award winning Collatoral Damage project in which he wrote about extraordinary renditions from Europe by the CIA and torture of Al Qaeda suspects in secret prisons. Michael Bilton has also taught students of journalism at universities in Britain, America and Denmark.