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FT editor Roula Khalaf has called for a raft of legal changes to combat the ability of the rich to bring so-called “SLAPPs” against journalists.

Lawfare: David Davis MP has claimed a UK news publication avoids mentioning Russian oligarchs for fear of being sued in a Commons debate about SLAPPs.

To mark ten years of the British Journalism Awards, we reveal the best Investigation of the Decade, Scoop of the Decade and Journalist of the Decade.

Authors include Apple veteran Tony Fadell, left-wing podcaster Paris Marx, and acclaimed journalist Johann Hari.

BBC News By Lesley Curwen image sourceGetty Images image captionWashington DC, 2002: Sherron Watkins recounting to Senators how she uncovered the accounting scandal at Enron I was crouching on the marble floor of a US Senate committee room, hunched over a recording machine, as witnesses swore to tell the truth about the breath-taking collapse of Enron, the seventh largest company in the US. Just a few months earlier in 2001, this brash Texan energy giant had been exposed for hiding huge losses, and declared bankruptcy. You could have heard a pin drop as former Enron executive and whistleblo...