Editing World in Action (section)

===Journalists===
''World in Action'' employed many leading journalists, among them [[John Pilger]]; [[Michael Parkinson]]; [[Gordon Burns (television)|Gordon Burns]]; [[Nick Davies]], [[Ed Vulliamy]] and [[David Leigh (journalist)|David Leigh]] of the ''Guardian''; Alasdair Palmer of the ''[[Sunday Telegraph]]''; John Ware, BBC ''Panorama'''s leading investigative reporter; [[Tony Wilson]], whose second career as a music impresario was immortalised in the feature film ''[[24 Hour Party People]]''; Michael Gillard, creator of the ''Slicker'' business pages in the satirical magazine ''[[Private Eye]]''; [[Donal MacIntyre]]; the writer Mark Hollingsworth; Quentin McDermott, since 1999 a leading investigative reporter for the [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]; Tony Watson, editor of the ''[[Yorkshire Post]]'' for 13 years and editor-in-chief of the [[Press Association]] from December 2006; and [[Andrew Jennings]], author of ''Lords of the Rings'' and ''The Dirty Game'', who has campaigned vigorously for more than a decade against corruption in international sport.

Two former ''World in Action'' journalists uncovered one of the biggest broadcasting scandals of the 1990s. Laurie Flynn, a central figure in the British Steel papers case, and Michael Sean Gillard revealed that large parts of a 1996 [[Carlton Television]] documentary, ''The Connection'', about drug trafficking from [[Colombia]], had been fabricated.<ref>{{cite news|title=Inquiry ordered into faked TV programme|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=6 May 1998}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/88866.stm|title=Guardian renews claims of 'faked' documentary|publisher=[[BBC News]]|date=7 May 1998|access-date=30 March 2013}}</ref>
Flynn and Gillard's exposé in ''the Guardian'' in May 1998 led to an inquiry and a record £2 million fine for Carlton from the then-regulator, the Independent Television Commission,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/237715.stm|title=Carlton fined £2m for 'faked' documentary|publisher=[[BBC News]]|date=18 December 1998|access-date=30 March 2013}}</ref> as well as provoking a passionate debate about truthfulness in broadcast journalism.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/firstrelease/fr1199/bwfr8b.htm|title=The primrose path: faking UK television documentary, "docuglitz" and docusoap|first=Brian|last=Winston|work=Screening the Past|date=12 November 1999|access-date=30 March 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120206204451/http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/firstrelease/fr1199/bwfr8b.htm|archive-date=6 February 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/may/23/johnarlidge.theobserver|title=TV accuracy and ethics 'at all-time low'|work=[[The Observer]]|first1=John|last1=Arlidge|first2=Michael|last2=Collins|date=23 May 1999|access-date=30 March 2013}}</ref>