About Me
Rianna Croxford is a multi-award-winning investigations correspondent for BBC News. She specialises in uncovering abuses of power, corruption, and social injustices.
Her stories include revealing allegations of ministerial bullying in the British government, the misuse of non-disclosure agreements to silence complaints of sexual misconduct, and a series about inadequate content moderation of the explicit social media site OnlyFans.
She hosts and produces investigative podcasts and documentaries. Her recent multi-part podcast series “World of Secrets: The Abercrombie Guys,” and BBC Panorama documentary, “The Abercrombie Guys: The Dark Side of Cool," led to the arrests of the former CEO of fashion giant Abercrombie & Fitch, his British partner, Matthew Smith, and their middleman. The trio have been charged with running an international sex trafficking operation over nearly a decade.
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Rianna is a two-time British Journalism Award winner, Forbes 30 under 30 media honouree, and a Royal Television Award and Orwell Prize finalist.
She previously worked as the BBC’s community affairs correspondent, leading coverage of the UK's diverse population, and as a correspondent in Washington DC reporting on breaking news across America.
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Alongside her work, Rianna is an ambassador for the Journalists’ Charity, which provides advice, crisis support and financial assistance to those in the industry, as well as the Journalism Diversity Fund, which awards training bursaries to people from diverse and lower socio-economic backgrounds.
