I am a senior journalist working with the BBC Panorama team. I also work one day a week on developing investigative podcasts with BBC Long Form Audio.
Before this, I was on the BBC World news desk, and I previously worked for Index on Censorship, the Guardian and Reuters.
I also co-created two BBC podcast series, Fake Heiress and Fake Psychic - investigative docudramas.
I am currently based in London, having previously lived in Washington DC, Buenos Aires and other places. I speak Spanish (and rusty French), and have a particular interest in Latin America.
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Vicky Baker investigates the stranger-than-fiction story of Lamar Keene, a renowned psychic who confessed to being part of an underground network he called the "psychic mafia" If you wanted to speak to the dead in 1960's America, there was one man who was ready to help. A showman with big ambitions.
When a young Nicaraguan woman became mentally ill, the pastor in her village decided to carry out an exorcism to expel her "demons".
Televangelist Todd Coontz has a well-worn routine: he dresses in a suit, pulls out a Bible and urges viewers to pledge a very specific amount of money.
A tribute to an American in Paris who was famous for inviting hundreds of thousands of strangers to dinner at his home.
Anna Delvey blazed a trail through New York as a wealthy heiress. But it was all a lie. Six-part docudrama for Radio 4 / BBC Sounds
Vicky Baker meets the Nicaraguan women speaking, and singing, out against sexism.
Having created a trail of false identities around the world, con artist Samantha Azzopardi has a history that runs deep
The inside track on how the streaming giant paid a notorious con woman $320,000 for her story
A collaborative news piece with BBC Newsnight
A BBC Panorama investigation has uncovered property sales worth more than £120m linked to one successful developer and a charity he helped set up. Former employees of the charity, My Space Housing Solutions, which has claimed tens of millions of pounds of public money to house vulnerable people, say it was too focused on expansion and failed to support some tenants.