Biography
Murray Jones is an investigative journalist based in London. His 2024 narrative podcast series Heaven’s Helpline (NZ Herald/iHeartRadio) exposed the alleged cover-up of sexual abuse by the Mormon church in New Zealand and beyond. It won double gold at the NY Festivals Radio Awards 2025 in the investigative and narrative/documentary categories, as well as several awards in New Zealand. Previously, while with AOAV he worked with BBC Panorama on the SAS Death Squads Exposed: A British War Crime? documentary, which prompted a judge-led inquiry into the deaths. He also led his own investigation into civilian casualty payments by the British military in Afghanistan, which was published by The Guardian and BBC News and garnered international coverage. For this and investigations into the arms trade published by Al Jazeera and Byline Times he was a finalist for Amnesty International’s Best New Journalist award in 2022.