The former Express Newspapers’ digital chief, Ted Jeory, has joined the Bureau of Investigative Journalism as its deputy editor. He will work to the managing editor, Rachel Oldroyd.
The enterprising Jeory took voluntary redundancy after six years with Richard Desmond’s group, working for most of that time at the Sunday Express.
He was previously deputy editor at the East London Advertiser, having begun his journalistic career three years before that at the East Anglian Daily Times. He started out as an accountant.
He is evidently hoping to maintain his intense interest in the activities of east London’s Tower Hamlets council through his Trial by Jeory blog, which was shortlisted for the Paul Foot Award in 2013.
He says: “I had some great times at the Sunday Express and I’m very grateful to its editor Martin Townsend who allowed me to work on a wide variety of rewarding stories.
“I’m particularly proud of having led the paper’s ground-breaking mental health campaign, the first by a tabloid newspaper. It won a Mind award and showed the likes of the Mirror and the Sun that exploring mental health issues is a sensitive way of connecting with readers”.
He says of his new role: “British journalism needs the bureau: it’s a fantastic and positive organisation and I’m extremely proud and excited to join a team which believes in fact-based journalism”.
Oldroyd, who became the BiJ’s managing editor in October 2014, joined the bureau as deputy editor shortly after its launch in 2010. She has since been responsible for overseeing many of its key projects. She previously spent 13 years at the Mail on Sunday.
