Carole Cadwalladr

Carole Cadwalladr is an internationally renowned journalist who, alongside reporters from The New York Times, was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for her work on the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal. Other awards she has won include the 2018 Orwell Prize, the 2018 Polk Award, the 2018 Stieg Larsson Award, and the 2019 Gerald Loeb Award for Investigative Reporting. Her TED Talk (link here) in June 2019 has been watched by over 8 million people and she appeared in the award winning documentary The Great Hack.

Cadwalladr’s debut novel, The Family Tree, was published by Penguin in 2005 and earned consideration for several literary prizes. It was adapted into a five-part miniseries on the BBC’s Radio 4.
Cadwalladr is currently a features writer at The Observer.