We are very sad to announce the dead of our friend, the American/British journalist Gavin MacFadyen, 76. He died of lung cancer on Saturday October 22nd 2016. Gavin was member of the ECPMF Supervisory Board and known to many as Director of the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) at Goldsmiths, University of London. At the CIJ, he had the aim to foster in-depth reporting and support investigative journalists who got into threatening situations because of their work.
Gavin MacFadyen (photo: ECPMF/Lamm)
Before he founded the CIJ in 2003, he built a career as director and producer of…