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NBC news presenter and investigative reporter for Channel 4’s DispatchesThe investigative reporter and presenter Tazeen Ahmad, who has died of cancer aged 48, tackled controversial and sensitive subjects in her work for the
BBC, ITN, Channel 4 and NBC. Fearlessly confronting wrongdoers, she changed lives with her reports, some of which led to successful criminal proceedings.
In 2011, for Channel 4’s Dispatches, she exposed violence against children in a mosque; a teacher was subsequently jailed. The Hunt for Britain’s Sex Gangs (2013), also for Dispatches, explored the grooming of girls in the Midlands and won Royal Television Society and Asian Media awards, as well as receiving a Bafta nomination.