Once described by The Times as “the doyen of broadcasting reporters”, Tom Mangold is one of Britain’s top television reporters and an international best selling author. He has worked with BBC Television News and Current Affairs since 1964 and is now a freelance reporter and writer.
Tom Mangold was born in Hamburg and came to England in 1939. After working on local newspapers he became a reporter in London’s Fleet Street first with the Sunday Mirror then with the Daily Express where he covered the notorious Christine Keeler scandal for two years.
In 1964 he joined BBC TV News where he became a war correspondent covering conflicts in Aden, Vietnam, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, the Middle East and Afghanistan. In 1971 he moved to BBC TV Current Affairs and then in 1976 he moved to Panorama, where he remained for 26 years making over 100 documentaries specialising in investigative stories.
He has won numerous awards for his work; in 1993 his investigation into problems with the sleeping pill `Halcion’ won the Business or Consumer Investigative Reports category in the prestigious 14th Annual Cableace Awards in Hollywood. He won Britain’s most coveted current affairs prize in the Royal Television Society’s Journalism Awards with his investigation into the false arrest and imprisonment for the murder of three men in Cardiff, Wales. The men were subsequently freed.
His investigation into a dental AIDS mystery in the United States won the bronze award in the Best Investigative Report Category at the New York Television Festival in 1996 and in 1999 he was further honoured at the Chicago International Television Competition with a Gold Plaque (the top award) in the Investigative Reporting/News Documentary Category for one of a series of two networked films on biological warfare.
Mangold is currently working as a freelance reporter specialising in intelligence reports, media comment diaries and travel features. His radio and television documentaries continue to receive critical acclaim.