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Ben Stockton

Ben is an award-winning investigative reporter based in the US for The Bureau of Investigative Journalism. He has twice won the Association of British Science Writers award for the Best Investigative Journalism in Science in 2019 and 2021. He has worked on several Bureau projects covering the tobacco industry, global health, financial crime and corruption.

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