The former BBC producer who worked on Newsnight’s spiked Jimmy Savile investigation, Meirion Jones, has joined the Bureau of Investigative Journalism as investigations editor.

Jones won the Daniel Pearl award for his investigation into the dumping of Trafigura’s toxic waste in Africa and the London Press Awards scoop of the year for his part in the Jimmy Savile revelations.

He left the BBC in 2014 after 26 years and told Press Gazette in 2015 that he felt he had been squeezed out of the corporation. Along with Liz MacKean he worked on an investigation which was set to reveal sex abuse allegations against Jimmy Savile but which was spiked by BBC bosses in November 2011.