"World in Action" employed many leading journalists, among them John Pilger; Michael Parkinson; Gordon Burns; Rob Rohrer; Nick Davies, Ed Vulliamy and David Leigh of the "Guardian"; Alasdair Palmer of the "Sunday Telegraph"; John Ware, BBC "Panorama"'s leading investigative reporter; Tony Wilson, whose second career as a music impresario was immortalised in the feature film "24 Hour Party People"; Michael Gillard, creator of the "Slicker" business pages in the satirical magazine "Private Eye"; Donal MacIntyre; the writer Mark Hollingsworth; Quentin McDermott, since 1999 a leading investigative reporter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation; Tony Watson, editor of the "Yorkshire Post" for 13 years and editor-in-chief of the Press Association from December 2006; and Andrew Jennings, author of "Lords of the Rings" and "The Dirty Game", who has campaigned vigorously for more than a decade against corruption in international sport.