Spotlight

Claire Savage

Claire Savage has been a journalist for ten years. Her first job was in local radio before moving on to television reporting. Claire has been at the BBC since 2003, reporting for Radio Ulster and more recently specialising in investigative reports for BBC Newsline. She won the 2005 CIPR radio journalist of the year, and was the best newcomer in the print journalism section. She has broken a series of major stories for the BBC, including the discovery of an £80m shortfall in the Child Support Agency, an investigation into the awarding of a multi-million pound government contract, and a report on a teenager caught in educational limbo who ended up missing five years of school.

Darragh MacIntyre has been with Spotlight since 2002. He has reported on subjects as diverse as clerical abuse and waste smuggling. A 2007 film 'The Hunt for Captain Nairac' was nominated as Scoop of the Year in the Royal Television Society awards. Other memorable programmes include 'The Philip Johnston Story', an exclusive interview with the estate agent who was accused but then cleared of money laundering, and 'The Omagh Fire Tragedy' which revealed what the police and the social services should have known about Arthur McElhill, the man suspected of starting the fire in which he and six other people died. In 2007, Darragh was named Northern Ireland's Current Affairs Journalist of the Year.

Mandy McAuley began her investigative career with the BBC's 5 Live Report before moving to Spotlight. Her hard-hitting investigations have brought her face to face with paedophiles, loan sharks, drug dealers and paramilitaries. She has won an array of awards for her work including UK Radio News Broadcaster of the Year and an international gold medal at the New York Radio Festivals. Her special investigation into an international dog-fighting ring, for Spotlight and Panorama, earned a Bafta nomination and a prestigious Royal Television Society Award.