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Benjamin Best is an award winning investigative reporter, filmmaker, and author whose reporting focuses on the dark side of sports: illegal betting, match fixing, corruption, organized crime, and the human rights violations that are often a byproduct of major sporting events such as the World Cup and The Olympics.
In 2011 Benjamin Best was awarded CNN’s journalist of the year award, he is multiple time winner of Medium Magazine’s journalist of the year, and in 2016, was awarded Best Director at London’s International Film Festival for his feature length documentary, Dirty Games.
In this conversation, Benjamin and I talk about his untraditional path into journalism, his advice for freelancers and investigative reporters, and he takes us behind the scenes of his recent undercover report from Qatar where he revealed how migrant workers who are building infrastructure for the 2022 World Cup are being exploited. If you’re interested in seeing that video, it is at the top of the show notes.
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