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Mazher Mahmood (born 22 March 1963) is an undercover reporter for the British tabloid press. He spent 20 years working for the ''News of the World'' (and for ''The Sunday Times'')〔("Leveson Inquiry: Tabloid journalists defend paper" ), BBC News, 12 December 2011〕 during which time he was responsible for numerous investigations,〔 including a reputed 94 that led to convictions. Later, from its foundation in 2012, he worked for the ''The Sun on Sunday'', successor to the ''News of the World''. Mahmood has won various newspaper awards, including British Press Awards "Reporter of the Year" 1999 for his exposé of Newcastle United directors.() At the awards ceremony, a figure dressed as a sheikh collected the award, and then revealed himself to be Kelvin MacKenzie, former editor of The Sun.() He won Reporter of the Year again in 2011, as well as Scoop of the Year, for an investigation of cricket match-fixing. He also picked up the Sports Journalists' Association award in 2011 for the same story. In July 2014, Mahmood was suspended from ''The Sun on Sunday'' after a trial collapsed against former ''X Factor'' judge and singer Tulisa Contostavlos with concerns voiced by a judge that Mahmood may have perjured himself. The Crown Prosecution Service subsequently announced its intention to review more than 30 criminal trials in which he gave evidence. Mahmood became known popularly as "The Fake Sheikh" because he has often posed as a sheikh in the course of his investigations. In addition to numerous highly regarded public interest investigations, he has attracted allegations of breaking the law without any clear public interest justification, including several episodes in which he has been accused of entrapment. In September 2008, he wrote a book entitled ''Confessions of a Fake Sheik ''()'' – The King Of The Sting Reveals All''. Despite his efforts at maintaining secrecy around his appearance, several news organisations have published photos of him, including BBC News, ''the Guardian'', and the Norwegian tabloid ''Dagbladet''. == Background and career == Mazher Mahmood was born in Small Heath, Birmingham, on 22 March 1963, the second of two sons of Sultan and Shamim Mahmood, journalists from Pakistan who came to Britain three years earlier. Mahmood first gained employment as a journalist at the age of 18, exposing family friends who sold pirate videos. This gained him two weeks work at the ''News of the World'', after which he started freelancing at the ''Sunday People''. In 1984, while trying with fellow journalist Roger Insall to expose a vice-ring at the Metropole Hotel at the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, he first used the sheikh disguise when inviting prostitutes to a hotel room.〔 Mahmood then worked for ''The Sunday Times,'' which according to the ''International Herald Tribune'' he joined in 1989. A managing editor at that time, Roy Greenslade, later alleged that he was dismissed for trying to cover up a mistake.〔〔(The real reason that Mazher Mahmood left the Sunday Times under a cloud ), Roy Greenslade, ''The Guardian'', 14 December 2011〕 Mahmood has consistently disputed Greenslade's version of events. Mahmood then briefly worked as a producer on David Frost's TV-am programme,〔 before joining the ''News of the World'' in 1991.〔 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「Mazher Mahmood」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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