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Bill Tyson is a multi-award winning Irish writer and producer. == Financial journalism == Tyson won three ESB national media awards for business journalism. Two of these (in 2000 and 2002) were for campaigning investigative journalism into the Irish Nationwide Building Society. In 2004, he won another ESB media award for stories on borrowers who were lured into unaffordable debts and subjected to aggressive repossession tactics. In 2006, Tyson become personal finance correspondent for the Sunday Tribune. Highlights included an exposé of an orgiastic lend-to-invest spree at ACC Bank, which was followed by the resignation of ACC's CEO three weeks later. For this story, Tyson received an "honourable mention" in the inaugural UCD Michael Smurfit Business Journalism Awards. In 2008 Tyson resigned from the Tribune over the immediate sacking of business editor Richard Delevan following a complaint from a leading advertiser about one of his articles (see -(columnist resigns )). From 2011 to 2013, Tyson was a financial reporter on the RTÉ TV series The Consumer Show. In the 2012 series Bill highlighted a Payment Protection Insurance mis-selling controversy, following which widespread repayments were made by banks to thousands of consumers. He also exposed high mortgage rates charged at the time by Permanent tsb. These rates were reduced shortly after the issue was aired on the show. Other stories dealt with the "Phoenix company" phenomenon, where consumers lost out when businesses went into liquidation. Tyson has also worked as a freelance journalist for the Sunday Times, Sunday Independent and The Business Show on RTÉ Radio 1. In the Sunday Times in 2012, Tyson showed exactly how much brokers mis-sell investment policies by "churning" the existing business of unsuspecting clients. Following this article, the Irish Insurance Federation called for an investigation and shortly after, the Central Bank instigated one. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bill Tyson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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