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Sirin Kale

Sirin Kale is a staff feature writer for The Guardian, where she specialises in long-form investigative features. In 2021 she won the British Journalism Award for Arts and Entertainment Journalism for an investigation she co-authored into sexual misconduct allegations made by 20 women against the actor Noel Clarke. In 2024 she won her second British Journalism Award in the features category.

In 2021 she was a finalist in the Orwell Prize For Exposing Britain’s Social Evils for her work on the Covid pandemic. She hosted the number one podcast Can I Tell You A Secret? for the Guardian, about the serial stalker Matthew Hardy, and co-hosted the number one podcast Unreal: A Critical History of Reality TV for the BBC. Can I Tell You A Secret? was subsequently adapted into a Netflix documentary in which Sirin appeared.

Summer Conference Event
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Rianna Croxford: Fast Fashion and Sex Trafficking

In her BBC Podcast The Abercrombie Guys, Rianna Croxford unearthed a powerful story; that the men in charge of teen retailer Abercrombie & Fitch had been at the centre of a global operation scouting young men for sex; her investigation led to the arrest of its former CEO Mike Jeffries who was charged with running an international sex trafficking and prostitution ring.
Staff Feature Writer and Podcast Host at The Guardian