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I am the founder and managing director of Dartmouth Films (www.dartmouthfilms.com), which has pioneered new ways of funding, producing and distributing impact documentaries in the UK. A former investment analyst in the City, I then worked as a journalist on the Economist, Daily Mail, New Statesman and Sunday Times, where I was the editor of Insight, until sacked by Rupert Murdoch’s appointed editor, Andrew Neil. I then became a TV reporter for Channel 4 and the BBC and co-founded one of the UK’s first independent production companies – Fulcrum TV – where I was one of the producers of Marc and Nick Francis' film Black Gold. This film had a impact which we did not anticipate and showed me the potential for documentaries to change the world. I started Dartmouth in 2008 and our first big documentary was Rupert Murray’s The End of the Line, of which I was one of the producers and its impact producer – at a time when that term had not been invented. Since then we have constantly learnt more and more abut impact producing and have both produced our own films and also distributed films for other producers. I am also a former managing editor of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in the UK and the author of Investigative Journalism Works: The Mechanism of Impact, which includes several important case studies.