About me
Sirin Kale is an investigations correspondent for the Guardian newspaper, based in London. Previously she was a feature writer for the newspaper. She has won two British Journalism awards for best feature writer (2024) and arts and entertainment journalism (2021) and was an Orwell Prize finalist in 2021 for her reporting on the Covid pandemic. She hosted the number one investigative podcast Can I Tell You A Secret? for the Guardian, which was later turned into a number one Netflix documentary, and co-hosted the number one podcast Unreal: A Critical History of Reality TV for the BBC. In 2026 she was a co-recipient of the Woman of the Year award from Women in Journalism in recognition of her involvement in the Guardian’s successful defence of its reporting following a libel suit brought by the actor Noel Clarke, following an investigation she co-authored with Lucy Osborne in 2021 into Clarke's alleged sexual misconduct. In 2025, with Lucy Osborne, she co-hosted The Birth Keepers, a Guardian investigative podcast about the Free Birth Society, which went to number one in the US and UK podcast series charts.
