{{Short description|British journalist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2016}} {{Use British English|date=September 2016}} '''Angus Stickler''' (born 1964) was the lead reporter for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism until his resignation in December 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thebureauinvestigates.com/who-we-are/ |title=Who we are: The Bureau of Investigative Journalism |publisher=Thebureauinvestigates.com |date= |accessdate=2012-11-15}}</ref> In 2006 he was named News Journalist of the Year at the 24th Sony Radio Academy Awards.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/mar/28/radio |title=Sony Radio Academy Awards 2006: nominations | Media | MediaGuardian |publisher=Guardian |date=2006-03-28 |accessdate=2012-11-15 |location=London}}</ref> In 2011 he won the UACES/Thomson Reuters Reporting Europe prize for the Bureau's investigation into EU structural funds.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://reportingeurope.eu/press/ |url-access= |title= Winner Announced|last= |first= |author= |author-link= |date= 30 November 2010|website= |series= |publisher= |agency= |location= |page= |pages= |at= |language= |script-title= |trans-title= |type= |access-date= 5 November 2022|url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120326121947/http://reportingeurope.eu/548/winner-announced/|archive-date= 26 March 2012|via= Time Back Machine|quote= }}</ref> In 2011 he won an Amnesty International Media Award for his work on the Bureau's website.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amnesty.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=10058 |title=AIUK : Media Awards |publisher=Amnesty.org.uk |accessdate=2012-11-15 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130112212735/http://www.amnesty.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=10058 |archivedate=12 January 2013 }}</ref>
==BBC Newsnight== {{BLP sources section|date=November 2012}} Stickler made the headlines in November 2012 when an investigation he led for the BBC programme ''Newsnight'' was found to have falsely implicated a former senior Conservative politician in the North Wales child abuse scandal.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20286848 | work=BBC News | title=Crisis at the BBC: Timeline of events | date=2012-12-19}}</ref>
The person who was the focus of the Newsnight broadcast was widely identified on the internet as the former Conservative Party Treasurer Lord McAlpine.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/nov/10/bbc-newsnight-crisis-live | location=London | work=The Guardian | first1=David | last1=Batty | first2=Alexis | last2=Mitchell | title=George Entwistle resigns as director general of the BBC | date=2012-11-10}}</ref> Lord McAlpine issued a statement strongly denying the accusations.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9666439/Lord-McAlpine-responds-statement-in-full.html | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph | title=Lord McAlpine responds: statement in full | date=2012-11-09}}</ref> This allegation was subsequently admitted by the BBC to be false.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/nov/10/bbc-newsnight-crisis-live | location=London | work=The Guardian | first1=David | last1=Batty | first2=Alexis | last2=Mitchell | title=George Entwistle resigns as director general of the BBC | date=2012-11-10}}</ref>
The broadcasting of the false claim led to the resignation of George Entwistle as Director-General of the BBC on 10 November 2012.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/9669681/George-Entwistle-quits-as-director-general-over-Newsnight-fiasco.html | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph | first1=Robert | last1=Mendick | first2=Patrick | last2=Hennessy | title=George Entwistle quits as director-general over Newsnight fiasco | date=2012-11-10}}</ref> Lord Patten, Chairman of the BBC Trust, described the report as "unacceptable shoddy journalism".<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/9669681/George-Entwistle-quits-as-director-general-over-Newsnight-fiasco.html | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph | first1=Robert | last1=Mendick | first2=Patrick | last2=Hennessy | title=George Entwistle quits as director-general over Newsnight fiasco | date=2012-11-10}}</ref>
Stickler resigned from the Bureau in light of the Newsnight report.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/angus-stickler-resigns-bureau-investigative-journalism-over-newsnight-documentary|title=Angus Stickler resigns from Bureau of Investigative Journalism over Newsnight documentary|date=11 December 2012 }}</ref>
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