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Dean Kirby

Dean Kirby is the award-winning Investigations Correspondent of the i newspaper in London. His recent awards include the Medical Journalists’ Association News Story of the Year for an investigation into Britain’s PPE supply chain chaos during the Covid pandemic. In 2022, he was highly commended for the Hugh Cudlipp Award for Investigative and Campaigning Journalism and shortlisted for Scoop of the Year at the British Journalism Awards for his open-source work on the war in Ukraine, as well as being a finalist at the London Press Club Awards. His recent projects include an exposé of the UK’s prepayment energy meter scandal, for which he was longlisted for the Paul Foot Award and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain’s Social Evils. He is an author, has a PhD in urban history and is a volunteer mentor to socially disadvantaged journalism students.

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Open-Source: Finding Russia’s Filtration Camps

After the mayor of Mariupol warned that tens of thousands of people from the city were being interrogated in Russian filtration camps and forced across the border, the i newspaper’s award-winning investigations correspondent Dean Kirby set out to try to find them.
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The Prepayment Meter Scandal

In different ways, the i newspaper's Dean Kirby and Paul Morgan-Bentley from The Times forced the pre-payment meter scandal into the open, their investigations leading to substantial industry change. Both come to Summer Conference to talk about their methods, which in the case of The Times involved undercover video, and the impact of their work.
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Investigations Correspondent at the i newspaper
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