Miles Goslett is a journalist. He has worked for the Evening Standard, the Sunday Telegraph and the Mail on Sunday.[1] He was the U.K. editor for Heat Street.[2]
Career
editGoslett has won the 'Scoop of the Year' award four times: once at the 2009 British Press Awards, and three times at the London Press Club awards in 2009, 2013 and 2016.[3][4]
The 2009 awards were for exposing the 'Sachsgate'[5] scandal. The 2013 award was for exposing the Jimmy Savile sexual abuse scandal,[6][7] and is shared with journalists Meirion Jones, Liz MacKean and Mark Williams-Thomas. The 2016 award was for exposing the Kids Company scandal.
In a Press Gazette interview, Goslett said he offered the Savile story to seven national newspapers in 2011 but every one declined to publish it. Richard Ingrams of The Oldie was the only editor who was willing to run the story, making the magazine the first publication to reveal Savile's abuse of underage girls on BBC premises.[8] In 2013, Goslett challenged ex-BBC chief Mark Thompson in a New York street about his knowledge of the Savile affair for Channel 4 News.[9] In 2014, he revealed that Nick Pollard, the chairman of a BBC Inquiry into the Savile scandal, rang him and admitted he made a "mistake" in his report by failing to note Thompson's involvement in the controversy.[10]
In February 2016 Goslett was named UK editor of the Dow Jones news and opinion website Heat Street.[11]
In April 2018 Goslett published a book on the death of Dr David Kelly titled An Inconvenient Death: How the Establishment Covered Up the David Kelly Affair (ISBN 9781788543095). It was a Daily Telegraph Book of the Year,[12] the Book of the Day in the Guardian.[13]
In April 2024, Goslett was cited in The Guardian as being chief researcher to Lord Michael Ashcroft of Belize, in an article discussing the smears made against Angela Rayner.
References
edit- ^ "Miles Goslett - The Centre for Investigative Journalism". CIJ. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
- ^ "Heat Street's Louise Mensch tells us how she persuaded News Corp to back a news site with 'no safe spaces'". Business Insider. Retrieved 4 February 2017.
- ^ "The Spectator's Kids Company exposé named Scoop of the Year | Coffee House". Coffee House. 5 April 2016. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
- ^ "Daily Mail and The Times win top spots at Press Club awards". londonpressclub.co.uk. 6 April 2016. Archived from the original on 7 May 2016. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
- ^ "Puerile prank that left BBC stars and executives on the ropes". The Guardian. 30 October 2008. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
- ^ Deans, Jason (22 May 2013). "BBC Newsnight journalists win award for spiked Jimmy Savile investigation". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
- ^ Ponsford, Dominic (22 May 2013). "Spiked Newsnight Savile story is joint winner of London Press Club scoop prize". Press Gazette. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
- ^ Turvill, William (23 January 2013). "Miles Goslett: Extraordinary that no newspapers would touch my BBC Savile story". Press Gazette. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
- ^ "Thompson on Savile: 'I've nothing to hide'". Channel 4 News. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
- ^ "Jimmy Savile: a multiple cover-up". The Oldie. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
- ^ "Savile scoop journalist Miles Goslett named UK editor of News Corp libertarian website Heat Street | Press Gazette". www.pressgazette.co.uk. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
- ^ Reporters, Telegraph (20 November 2018). "The 50 best books of 2018". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
- ^ Tempany, Adrian (28 May 2018). "An Inconvenient Death by Miles Goslett – review". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 3 December 2019.