Liz MacKean

Liz MacKean is a British television reporter and presenter, announced in November 2015 as Journalist of the Decade by Stonewall. She worked on the BBC's Newsnight programme and was the reporter on an expose of Sir Jimmy Savile as a paedophile which was controversially cancelled by the BBC in December, 2011. The decision to axe the Newsnight investigation became the subject of the Pollard Inquiry. She and colleague Meirion Jones later won a London Press Club Scoop of the Year award for their work on the story. She also won the 2010 Daniel Pearl Award for her investigation of the Trafigura toxic dumping scandal.

After leaving the BBC, MacKean went freelance, and reported on the Cyril Smith case for Channel 4's Dispatches series in September 2013.

In 2014, she reported on Russian vigilante gangs who entrap and attack gay men.. "Hunted", made with Blakeway Productions, won multiple awards and led to a follow-up "Hunted: Gay and Afraid" in which MacKean challenged American evangelical groups who support anti-gay legislation around the world.

MacKean was named Journalist of the Year by Stonewall in 2014. In November 2015, she was announced as Journalist of the Decade.

MacKean was educated at Gordonstoun School, a boarding independent school near the village of Duffus, north west of the former cathedral city of Elgin in Moray in the north east of Scotland, where she played opposite Prince Edward in a production of Black Comedy, followed by the University of Manchester.

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