World Press Freedom Day 2018

Job Rabkin is the Investigations Editor at Channel 4 News in London. He works with a team of investigative journalists who have won multiple awards. Most recently, he led the programme’s investigation into Cambridge Analytica which made headlines worldwide.   

 

Job was born in South Africa and grew up in Mozambique and Zambia. He trained as a journalist at City University in London, and worked at the Financial Times and the BBC before joining Channel 4 News in 2003. 

 

Between 2007 and 2011 Job was based in Washington DC covering major stories, including the election of Barack Obama, the financial crisis and the Haiti earthquake. 

 

In 2014 he set up a new investigations unit for the programme, producing major projects including a two year investigation into election spending fraud in the UK, an undercover probe into Britain’s immigration detention centres, and labour conditions at the global sports brand company JD Sports. 

 

Check Job Rabkin's speech during World Press Freedom Day in Accra.