Sirin Kale

Sirin Kale is an investigations correspondent 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 2026 she was a finalist in The American Society of Magazine Editors National Magazine Awards. 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. In 2025 she co-hosted The Birth Keepers, a six-part investigative podcast into the Free Birth Society for the Guardian which topped the series charts in the USA and the UK.