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I have been a journalist for more than 30 years. During that time, I have written for, or contributed to, The Independent (as Chief Reporter and co-founder of its investigations unit), Times, Guardian, Mail, London Evening Standard, Sunday Times Magazine, Observer Magazine, Independent and Guardian Saturday magazines, National Geographic and YOU Magazine.

During my years writing news, I covered the war in Iraq, the war in Kosovo (from Albania and Macedonia), 9/11 in New York, the Concorde Crash in Paris, the death of Princess Diana, the mass shooting of schoolchildren in Dunblane and a host of other major stories.

I warned about big data mining a decade before it became a crisis, proved Britain's 'impregnable' ID cards and passports could be hacked and faked, and listened while Myra Hindley told me about the secret code she used to write letters to Ian Brady in prison.

While writing features, I took ayahuasca in the Amazon for The Times, followed a £10 note round the UK for The Guardian, was threatened by Nicholas van Hoogstraten for uncovering the riches he hid after his murder trial, and watched as South African patients in a persistent vegetative state woke up after being given a sleeping pill. I helped to free an innocent IRA 'bomber', proved the Conservatives were taking foreign donations from heroin traffickers and had airline safety law changed after the Lockerbie bombing.

I've written two books, Follow the Money (2012) and Gold Fever (2015), that were each chosen as Book of the Week by BBC Radio 4. Follow the Money was also a Time Out Book of the Week.

I was once included in Time Out’s “Culture 100” list of the most creative and influential people in the UK media industry.

I co-directed the movie Follow the Money, which was shortlisted for Best Documentary at the SoHo International Film Festival in New York. It was released on Amazon Prime in November 2019.

I have also taught journalism at Goldsmiths and City, Universities of London.

Features and long form commissions welcomed gratefully at steveboggan@hotmail.com

Some examples of my work are offered below, in no particular order.

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