Samantha Poling

Samantha Poling is a Scottish investigative journalist, currently working for BBC Scotland and BBC Panorama.

Raised in Helensburgh, after graduation Poling joined the Northumberland Gazette in Alnwick as a trainee reporter. She returned to Scotland in 1995, working on the Helensburgh Advertiser.

In 1996, she moved to the national press, covering stories such as the Dunblane massacre and reporting from Paris on the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.

In 1998 she joined BBC Scotland, and later became the channel's Health Correspondent. She still works for the channel on BBC Scotland Investigates.

In 2002 she moved into investigative journalism, making the film The Untouchable about a senior police officer who had raped and stalked a female crime women who he had met through his work. He was later jailed for 12 years for the attacks. She then joined Frontline, making investigative films, including the award winning Critical Error which investigated overdoses in radiotherapy treatment for cancer patients in hospitals around the UK, which prompted changes in the way radiotherapy dosages are delivered. She later spent time in Iraq filming a documentary about the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, and travelled to India to examine the call centre industry for a programme about banking.

In 2004, Poling made the multi-award winning film Security Wars, in which she went undercover to expose a cartel of gunmen and convicted murderers involved in lucrative national security contracts. The film forced the legislative tightening-up of security legislation, and won Poling the first of her three BAFTAs.

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