Episode 540: Heidi Blake
Heidi Blake is a writer for\xa0The New Yorker\xa0and the author of two books,\xa0From Russia with Blood: The Kremlin's Ruthless Assassination Program and Vladimir Putin's Secret War on the West\xa0and\xa0The Ugly Game: The Corruption of FIFA and the Qatari Plot to Buy the World Cup, with Jonathan Calvert. Her latest article is\xa0\u201cThe Fugitive Princess of Dubai.\u201d\n\u201cI definitely feel as an investigative reporter that I feel very driven by my own capacity for shock and outrage and genuinely feeling like this is unbelievable. And that kind of makes me want to keep digging. And once I stop feeling that on any given topic, I lose interest. And so I\u2019ve always been a generalist, and I just kind of rove from one topic to the next. I\u2019m always finding myself in new territory where I know absolutely nothing about the thing I\u2019m starting to dig into and have to try and play catch up and get my head around something new.\u201d\nShow notes:\n\n@heidiblake\n\n24:00\xa0From Russia with Blood\xa0(Mulholland Books \u2022 2020)\n\n24:00\xa0Once Upon a Time in Londongrad\xa0(Buzzfeed Studios \u2022 2022)\n\n33:00\xa0\u201cDavid Cameron\u2019s communication director in tax fraud investigation\u201d\xa0(The Daily Telegraph \u2022 May 2011)\n\n37:00\xa0The Ugly Game\xa0(Blake and Jonathan Calvert \u2022 Scribner \u2022 2017)\n\n40:00\xa0Blake's\xa0Buzzfeed News\xa0archive\n\n\n42:00\xa0\u201cThis Tory Donor Was Secretly Filmed Dropping Cash-Stuffed Rucksacks At Post Offices\u201d\xa0(Blake, Michael Gillard, Tom Warren, Jane Bradley, and Richard Holmes \u2022 Buzzfeed News \u2022 Oct 2015)\n\n45:00\xa0\u201cFriends of the Court\u201d\xa0(Justin Elliott, Joshua Kaplan, and Alex Mierjeski \u2022 ProPublica \u2022 2023)\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices