Roger Cook, the trailblazing investigative journalist best known for fronting U.K. network ITV‘s current affairs show “The Cook Report” in the 1980s and 90s, has died. He was 83.
Cook’s family confirmed the news in a statement.
“Alongside a distinguished and award winning career in journalism, Roger was first and foremost a beloved husband and father,” it read.
ITV led the tributes, saying that Cook “worked tirelessly to expose criminal wrongdoing and injustice, helping to drive important and lasting changes in the law” and that “his fearless contribution to journalism will long be remembered.”
Born in New Zealand, Cook moved to the U.K. in the 1960s after starting his career as a broadcast journalist in Australia. Following a lengthy stint on BBC Radio 4’s “The World at One,” in the early 1970s he created and presented the radio show “Checkpoint,” which saw him look to expose criminals, con-men and official incompetence.
