Gabriel Pogrund, currently Whitehall editor, is appointed editor of Insight, The Sunday Times investigations team.
Gabriel, named Political Journalist of the Year and News Journalist of the Year at the latest Press Awards, will lead an expanded team dedicated to fearless and forensic reporting, says The Sunday Times. Its work will appear in written, audio, and video form, reflecting the highest standards of data analysis and digital storytelling.
He will be joined by two investigative correspondents, Emanuele Midolo and Venetia Menzies, with a deputy editor to be appointed in due course. The Sunday Times says the appointments cement its commitment to investigative journalism.
It also marks the latest chapter in the history of a team which it says, since 1963, has campaigned for the voiceless and scrutinised the powerful. Insight fought for the victims of thalidomide, unmasked Kim Philby as a Soviet spy and dismantled the government’s position on Bloody Sunday. It revealed the existence of nuclear weapons at Dimona and lifted the lid on FIFA corruption.
Pogrund is responsible for many of The Sunday Times’s award-winning stories over the last decade, the publisher continued. His reporting on the security services, on government and on the BBC saw him named Journalist of the Year at the British Journalism Awards in December 2023.
He has reported from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Eritrea, and broken stories ranging from the King accepting suitcases of cash from a Qatari sheikh to the prime minister receiving clothes from a donor who received a pass to Downing Street. His reporting helped secure the children’s funeral fund for bereaved parents in poverty. He co-wrote Get In, a Sunday Times bestseller, on Keir Starmer’s path to power.
Midolo is investigations reporter at The Sunday Times. He has a special focus on crime, corruption and money-laundering. He co-wrote Murder in Cairo, a gripping reinvestigation into the murder of The Sunday Times foreign correspondent David Holden in 1977.
Menzies is visual investigations editor at The Times and The Sunday Times. She blends on the ground reporting with open-source intelligence and digital storytelling. She has reported from the Middle East, Somalia and Morocco. She won the rising star prize at the Pagefield Awards (2025).
Ben Taylor, editor of the Sunday Times, said: “The Sunday Times is committed to ambitious investigations, and I’m delighted that Gabriel Pogrund will lead an expanded Insight team. He has produced some of the most revelatory reporting in British journalism, and with Emanuele Midolo and Venetia Menzies alongside him, this is already a formidable team.”
Gabriel Pogrund said: “There are few publications in the world that rival The Sunday Times’ history of investigative journalism - or its ongoing commitment to the principles of public interest reporting. I’m honoured to lead the newly expanded team and will use it, to the best of my abilities, to tell important stories as impactfully and innovatively as possible. If you are a source with a sensitive, complex but significant story, we remain open for business and would like to hear from you.”
The Sunday Times says the new team will start next month.
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