Hardeep Matharu

Hardeep Matharu is a journalist, writer, and speaker. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Byline Times – the independent investigative news site and monthly print news magazine covering 'what the papers don't say'. Her work focuses on the forces that shape us: identities, politics, culture, the media. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a John Schofield Trust Senior Fellow, sits on the board of the 'Values in the Media' project established by the Common Cause Foundation, and is a judge of the annual Orwell Society/NUJ Young Journalists Award. Hardeep started her career as an award-winning local news reporter and entered journalism after completing a Law degree at Cambridge University.