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Roger Beam became a professional journalist in 1973 on the Lancashire Evening Post. He covered the Middle East war of that year for the LEP and United Newspapers Group and won the IPC National Press award for Young Journalist of the Year. He joined the Daily Mirror in London, 1976, covering home and foreign news, and investigations and won a joint IPC National Press award for Reporter of the Year.
In 1986, he became deputy news editor of the London Daily News, and when that folded in 1987, decided to go into television as a self employed producer. Since then he has worked for:-
- TVAM
- Investigative reporter for Thames Televison’s “Thames Reports”.
- Presented and reported Carlton’s London regional investigative Series , “Beam and Da Silva.”
- Investigative producer on BBC’s “Here and Now” current affairs series.
- Investigative producer for Twenty Twenty Television and Channel 4’s “Despatches”.
- ITV’s “The Big Story”. Several investigations including “Fat Cats” about expenses fraud by European Members of Parliament.
In 1998, he started his own small TV production company and :-
- Originated and produced two series of “UK RAW” for Channel Five.
- One series of “Celeb TV” for Channel 4.
- News Features for Channel 4 News, including “Paedophile Teachers”, “Ritual Animal Slaughter”, and “People Smuggling”.
He closed the company in 2002 and since then has freelanced as a producer/ director and print journalist. He has made investigative films for London Weeken Television on “Drugs in Lambeth”, and “Gun Crime in London.”
In 2003 and 2004 he published original investigations in the Times, Observer and London Evening Standard into the American Management of Transport for London; A Rogue Expedition to the Wreck of theTitanic, The 1986 Killing of British journalist Alec Collett in Lebanon by the Abu Nidal Organisation.
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