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World travelling Cameraman, former Social Worker, Dementia carer, Country Director of Feed the Children Tanzania, Dad to two boys, Northern born London based.
London, England Joined April 2012
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Liz MacKean was born in Romsey, Hampshire, in 1964. She joined BBC Newsnight in 2000, reporting from Northern Ireland and exposing the Trafigura toxic waste scandal.
In 2011, after Jimmy Savile’s death, she and producer Meirion Jones began investigating his abuse of children. Their report was never broadcast. That Christmas, the BBC aired tributes to Savile instead.
Liz did not stay quiet. She said her editor had tried to “kill” the story. In December 2012, the Pollard Inquiry found the Newsnight team had been right and the decision to drop the story was clearly flawed.
The cost to her was enormous. Liz left the BBC through voluntary redundancy. In her own words: “I went because I knew I was never going to appear on screen again.”
She kept going as a freelance journalist, reporting on Cyril Smith for Channel 4 and winning a Grierson Award for Hunted. Stonewall named her Journalist of the Decade in 2015.
Liz MacKean died in 2017, aged 52 .She chose the truth over her career. Britain should never forget her .
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