Declan Hill, PhD from Oxford, is a former Canadian investigative journalist, and academic who specializes in organized crime and international issues.
In the last few years, he has completed documentaries on the killing of the head of the Canadian mafia, blood feuds in Kosovo, and ethnic cleansing in Iraq. Hill has also won awards for documentaries on honour killings in Turkey, the murder of journalists in the Philippines.
He was a Chevening Scholar at Green College, University of Oxford, and received his doctorate for his study of match-fixing in professional soccer.
Declan has worked for CBC Radio ("IDEAS", "Tapestry", "Dispatches", "The Current", "Iraq Unit") CBC Television ("the fifth estate", "Disclosure", "Newsworld" and "Newsworld International"): BBC Radio World Service and BBC Radio 4: as well as various new media outlets. Two of the documentaries that he researched were shown on "PBS Frontline". Declan also works as a consultant with Johann Lambsdorff and the Anti Corruption Training & Consulting group (ACTC).
'The documentary had all the Declan hall-marks; crisp, descriptive writing; persistence, ingenuity and bravery in pursuing interviews in the most difficult locations; a real story, and a vivid message of outrageous social injustice
.'
--Susan Mahoney, CBC Radio producer
Hill is the author of "The Fix" a ground-breaking piece of investigative journalism exposing some of the secrets and realities of match-fixing in professional sport.
http://www.declanhill.com/
Presentations
Match fixers - They are here - Play the Game 2009 (PP Pdf.)
How to do investigative journalism with no money - Play the Game 2009 (PP Pdf.) |
