Liz MacKean obituary

Television journalist who worked for Newsnight for 14 years, leaving the BBC over its decision to drop her investigation into the Jimmy Savile sex scandalLiz MacKean, who has died aged 52 after a stroke, was that rarest of creatures in the world of broadcast news. In an industry full of egos and elbows, Liz was a campaigning journalist without even the smallest measure of sanctimony or self-regard. It was the victims who were always given the limelight in her work. It was their cause, not her ca