Leana Hosea is an investigative journalist and the co-founder of Watershed Investigations, a non-that profit journalism unit publishes and broadcasts water-focused investigations in the mainstream media.
Watershed has created content for the Guardian, the BBC (radio and TV), ITV, the Times and Daily Mail, among others. Their open-source ‘Pollution Map’ was nominated for the British Journalism Awards. Watershad also won the Association of British Science Writers ‘Best Audio’ award for their BBC investigative documentary, ‘Britain’s Dark Waters’.
Before setting up Watershed in 2023, Leana worked at the BBC for 18 years, covering global news and London investigations as a TV, radio and online reporter and producer. She is also a filmmaker and makes documentaries for radio. In 2016, she was a Knight Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan, where she studied water contamination and environmental justice. This culminated in her feature-length documentary film, ‘Thirst for Justice’.
