FORA.tv Speaker - Tessa Mayes

Tessa Mayes is an award-winning investigative journalist and author, her research specialties being in civil liberties, media, public policy, justice and privacy. She contributes regularly to The Spectator magazine and is a commentator for spiked, Novo magazine (Germany) and end-of-journalism.org. Her reporting credits include: The Sunday Times, Cosmopolitan magazine, BBC Panorama, ITV The Cook Report, Carlton TV's The Investigators, Channel 4 investigative series, Sky News investigations department, and Die Welt newspaper. She also appears on CNN to comment on politics and the media. In addition to these appearances, she has also organized and given talks on media and privacy issues at the Adam Smith Institute, City University's Department of Journalism, and the London School of Economics.