Tessa Clarke
journalist; author; documentary reporter; board member, Academics for Academic Freedom (AFAF)

Tessa is an award-winning campaigning journalist, author and documentary reporter. She is the the editor of an investigative film journalism project THE CHAGOS FILES. Tessa is the author of the free speech campaign report ‘Disclosure: media freedom and the privacy debate after Diana’ and the spiked report ‘Restraint or Revelation? Free speech and privacy in a confessional age’.
Her investigative documentaries and reports have been broadcast on BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Sky News and LBC and published in The Sunday Times, the Guardian, the Spectator, the British Journalism Review and spiked. Tessa is a guest speaker on national tv and has organised, chaired and spoken at numerous public debates. Currently she is on the board of Academics for Academic Freedom (AFAF).
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