Stephen Grey to join Reuters

Award-winning journalist and author Stephen Grey has been hired by Reuters as a special correspondent on its global enterprise team.

Based in London, Grey will report to enterprise editor Simon Robinson and will cover the UK, Europe and the Middle East to produce investigative special reports for Reuters.

Grey, a former editor of The Sunday Times’ Insight team, is best known for his world-exclusive revelations about the CIA’s extraordinary-rendition program and corruption in the European Union, and his on-the-spot reporting from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Grey began his career as a freelancer, before joining the Daily Express in 1993. He joined The Sunday Times in 1996 and from 2001 to 2003 was The Sunday Times’ Insight editor, running the paper’s investigation team during the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. Since 2003, he has been a freelancer, continuing to report for The Sunday Times in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as writing for The New York Times, The Guardian and The Times, working as a consultant for ABC News and 60 Minutes, and serving as an on-air correspondent for the BBC, Channel 4’s Dispatches and PBS Frontline.

Grey is also the author of Ghost Plane (2007), an account of the CIA rendition program, and Operation Snakebite (2009), on the war in Helmand, Afghanistan. He has won several awards, including an award from the Overseas Press Club of America and the 2010 Kurt Schork Award for International Reporting.