"A Slave in Scotland", Investigative Reporter, The Guardian/Observer
Reporter, "Meta's new parental tools will not protect vulnerable children online", The Guardian
"The Trap" Reporter/Producer/Director, The Guardian, Guardian Documentaries
Give me shelter: protecting trafficked children in the US - documentary
"How US Traffickers Recruit Jailed Women for Prostitution", Investigative Reporter, The Guardian
Investigative Reporter, "How Facebook and Instagram Become Marketplaces for Child Sex Trafficking", The Guardian Long Read
Investigative Reporter, "The lawyer whose sex trafficking case against Instagram could spell trouble for Big Tech", The Guardian
"Trump Tries a New Campaign Tack: Small Scale," Reporter, The New York Times
"How Facebook and Instagram became marketplaces for child trafficking", Investigative Reporter, The Guardian
Investigative Reporter, "America's Outcasts: The Women Trapped in a Cruel Cycle of Exploitation," The Guardian
‘Emotionally, I’m shattered’: How an Irish professor lost his €1m retirement nest egg to scammers
"3,000 children enslaved in Britain after being trafficked from Vietnam", Reporter/Filmmaer, The Observer on Sunday (Guardian)
"Madagascar, State of Denial", Reporter/Producer, People & Power, Al Jazeera English
Documentary, Director/Producer, The Great Olympic Greenwash, Al Jazeera English
Reporter, "US states move to stop prisons charging inmates for reading and video calls", The Guardian
Investment scammers slip through cracks in EU Big Tech law
"World’s garment workers face ruin as fashion brands refuse to pay $16bn", Reporter, The Guardian
‘I’ll have to tell my husband I’ve lost all our money’: Calls reveal trauma of Irish scam victims 
Mei-Ling McNamara

About 

Investigative Journalist
Documentary Filmmaker
EDITORIAL DIRECTOR 
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My work as an investigative reporter, producer and director has been broadcast with international media outlets including the Guardian, Al Jazeera English, Al Jazeera America, Earthrise, CNN International, Channel 4 and the BBC. My print and multimedia pieces have featured in the New York Times, The Irish Times, the Guardian Long Read, Guardian Weekend, Observer Magazine and the Observer on Sunday, among others.

Working across print and broadcast media for nearly two decades, my journalism has focused on interrogating the systems that perpetuate human rights violations, modern-day slavery and human trafficking, labor exploitation, corporate negligence, environmental crimes and miscarriages of justice. My reporting has included long-form narrative journalism, print and radio features, live news production, foreign/current affairs productions, multimedia investigative projects and long-form documentaries.