The Guardian has appointed Newsnight’s Nick Hopkins as head of investigations.
Hopkins will head up an investigative team tasked with continuing the Guardian’s track record of breaking agenda-setting stories including the phone hacking scandal, Wikileaks and tax avoidance at HSBC.
Hopkins joined BBC2’s flagship current affairs as investigations correspondent in May 2014 following a 16-year career at the Guardian, during which he held senior posts including investigations editor, national news editor and deputy foreign editor.
He was also part of the team that worked on the newspaper’s Pulitzer prize-winning coverage of Edward Snowden’s revelations about mass surveillance by the NSA and GCHQ.
He will report directly to Guardian editor-in-chief Katharine Viner, who praised Hopkins’ “formidable track record”.
She added: “I am delighted to welcome him back to the Guardian and look forward to seeing him lead our excellent investigations team as we continue to break stories and set the global news agenda.”
Hopkins said: “I’m delighted to be returning to the Guardian in such an important role at an exciting time. I hope I can contribute to the Guardian’s amazing track record, working with journalists I know to be among the best in the business.”
