George Arbuthnott

George Arbuthnott is a British investigative journalist at The Sunday Times.[1]

Arbuthnott read economics at Durham University (2005–2008) and completed a masters in investigative journalism at City, University of London (2008–2009).[2]

His work helped to shape the Modern Slavery Bill, expose a global doping scandal in athletics, and revealed several controversies (conflict of interests) involving the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson.[3][4][5] For this, Arbuthnott has won young journalist of the year at the 2012 Press Awards, two British Journalism Awards in 2015,and being shortlisted for the Orwell Prize in 2015 for a piece on the modern slave trade.[6][7][8] In 2016, he was shortlisted for the European Press Prize with 'The Fifa Scandal', and in 2019, he was a finalist at the British Journalism Awards for an investigation carried out alongside Sunday Times journalists Jonathan Calvert and Gabrial Pogrund.[9][10][11]

He is a judge of the Amnesty International UK Media Awards.[12]

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