Heidi Blake

Heidi Blake joined The New Yorker as a contributing writer in 2022, after fourteen years at BuzzFeed News, the London Sunday Times, and the Daily Telegraph. She is the author of “From Russia with Blood: The Kremlin’s Ruthless Assassination Program and Vladimir Putin’s Secret War on the West,” building on an investigation at BuzzFeed News that was a Pulitzer finalist and won I.R.E.’s Tom Renner Award in 2018. She is also the co-author of “The Ugly Game: The Corruption of FIFA and the Qatari Plot to Buy the World Cup,” drawing on the revelations of hundreds of millions of documents leaked from inside FIFA. Both books have been adapted for TV.

Blake began her career as a trainee reporter at the Daily Telegraph in 2008, before joining the storied Sunday Times insight team in 2011, where she won ten awards for her work exposing corruption in world football. She moved to BuzzFeed News in 2015, where she led multiple award-winning investigations revealing match-fixing at the top of world tennis, customer abuses by Britain’s biggest publicly-owned bank, and Russian assassinations on British soil. Her series exposing exploitation and death inside America’s guardianship industry was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Public Interest in 2021 and is anthologized in “The Best American Magazine Writing 2022.”