About Heidi Blake

By Faye Curran

Heidi Blake started her journalism career editing the University of York student newspaper paper, Nouse.

She won three Guardian Student Media Awards for her work at the paper in 2007, including student journalist of the year.

She then graduated and joined the Telegraph graduate program in 2008 after completing her degree in English and Politics and obtaining the highest grade with distinction.

Once she had joined the Telegraph graduate program she was sent to the Yorkshire Post.

There, she wrote stories that gained national attention from several different newspapers.

After completing her training, Heidi worked as a general news reporter and then an investigations correspondent at the Telegraph before being headhunted to join The Sunday Times Insight investigations team in 2011.

In March 2015, Blake moved to her current post as UK Investigations Editor for BuzzFeed in London, where she and her colleague John Templeton revealed widespread evidence of match fixing at the top level of international tennis.

She has won 16 national and international awards and many more nominations for her work.