Rachel Oldroyd has been named deputy investigations editor of The Guardian under Paul Lewis.
Oldroyd left The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) where she was most recently managing editor since 2014, having joined in 2010 as deputy editor.
Before joining TBIJ she spent 13 years at the Mail on Sunday where she headed up the reportage section in Live magazine.
Oldroyd’s appointment is part of a bolstering of the Guardian investigations team, which has also hired ex-Insider political reporter Henry Dyer to focus on politics investigations, and ex-FT investigations correspondent Tom Burgis who will join in the spring after writing a book.
Update 2/9/22: TBIJ investigative journalist Maeve McClenaghan is also leaving for The Guardian’s investigations team, describing it as a “real dream-come-true role”.
In other investigative journalist moves, Geraldine McKelvie is leaving the Sunday Mirror and Sunday People after seven years to join the new investigative unit at Channel 4’s Dispatches.
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