The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
In September 2009 he was appointed the first managing editor of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. In this role he has overseen a number of investigations, including the Wikileak's Iraq War Logs.
In 2010/2011, under his editorship, the Bureau won an Amnesty Award, a Thomson Reuters Award and was shortlisted for an IRE award for its reporting.
In 2011/2012 the Bureau won a second Amnesty Award and was nominated for four Press Gazette British Journalism Awards. The leading nominees for the awards included The Times and The Sunday Times with six nominations apiece. Then the Bureau and the Independent with four. The BBC and Getty Images received three nominations each.
In November 2012, an Early Day Motion was passed in the British Parliament that supported the stories reported at the Bureau under Iain Overton's editorship. The motion, sponsored by Paul Flynn MP, read: "That this House recalls the great successes of The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) in its quality work on exposing many national and international scandals, including revealing that the CIA falsely claimed that it was causing zero civilian casualties in drone attacks in Pakistan and confirming that the US had deliberately targeted rescuers in follow-up strikes; applauds The Bureau's work on deaths in police custody that was rewarded with a 2012 Amnesty International Media Award and revealed that high-profile deaths in police custody had not been included in official statistics and that police continue to use restraint techniques that have long been known to be dangerous; further notes that The Bureau investigated the under-spend of European structural funds, reported in detail the misuse of House of Lords facilities and failure of peers to declare their interests, exposed the power and influence of the financial lobby and conducted a valuable investigation of the public relations and lobbying industries; regrets the reduction in spending on investigative journalism by the BBC; and congratulates TBIJ for providing a valuable service in issues neglected by the main broadcasters."
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