Breaking Horizon: The Post Office Scandal [R]
Over nearly two decades, the UK Post Office prosecuted hundreds of innocent subpostmasters for shortfalls in their accounts caused, in fact, by errors of an IT system called Horizon – one of the biggest and most egregious miscarriages of justice in recent British history. Long before the recent ITV drama popularised it, investigative journalists broke the story. Some of those journalists come to Summer Conference to talk about how they did it.
Rebecca Thomson broke the Post Office scandal while working as a reporter at Computer Weekly in 2009.
Karl Flinders covered the story for Computer Weekly.
Richard Brooks covered the story for Private Eye.
Chaired by Rosamund Urwin – Media Editor, The Sunday Times.
Bill Goodwin
Bill Goodwin is Computer Weekly’s investigations editor. He is an award-winning journalist, who has written for national newspapers, magazines and has worked as a researcher on investigative television documentaries
Karl Flinders
Karl Flinders is chief reporter at Computer Weekly, where he helped to expose the Post Office scandal. He is also editor of several regional ezines for Computer Weekly: CW Nordics, CW Benelux, CW Middle East and CW Europe.
Richard Brooks
Richard Brooks is an investigative journalist for Private Eye magazine. He covers financial and political scandals and has written two books: Beancounters and The Great Tax Robbery.
Rosamund Urwin
Rosamund Urwin is the media editor at The Sunday Times. She previously wrote about Brexit for the paper and has broken stories including the Yellowhammer leak of papers about a no-deal Brexit and the Martin Bashir scandal at the BBC.
- 4 July 2024 17.10–18.00
Location: LG 02
This event will be recorded