the war in Burma, Elephant Moon (2016), and a co-authored investigation into the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia, Murder On The Malta Express (2019). His latest thriller is The Useful Idiot, about fake news in Stalin's Moscow in 1933, published in 2020. Awards Sweeney has won several awards including: 1998: What the Papers Say Journalist of the Year prize for reports on human rights abuses in Algeria. 2000: an Emmy Award and a Royal Television Society prize for programmes about the Massacre at Krusha e Madhe, Kosovo. 2001: the Amnesty International prize for "Victims of the Torture Train," about human rights abuses in Chechnya. 2003: a Sony Gold award (2003) for Best Radio News programme. 2004: a Royal Television Society prize (2004) for "Angela's Hope," a BBC One documentary about a woman wrongly convicted of murdering her three babies. 2005: The Paul Foot Award. Books Non-Fiction Fiction References External links Profile on the Panorama website Profile on the Panorama website, 9 January 2007 BBC Editors Blog: Investigating Scientology Filmography at the British Film Institute BBC employee criticised after PRs hand deliver Mormon documentary complaint 27 March 2012 regarding Sweeney and his documentary The Mormon Candidate'' on Mormonism, the LDS Church, and Mitt Romney 1958 births Living people BBC newsreaders and journalists British investigative journalists British reporters and correspondents Panorama (British TV programme) Place of birth missing (living people) Critics of Scientology The Observer photojournalists British war correspondents People educated at Barton Peveril Grammar School