Heather Knight held "the powerful to account"?

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“It is always surprising when someone ascends to the heights that Heather did,” the Chronicle's director of news, Demian Bulwa, announced the move in an internal message to newsroom staff. “She used individual stories to hold the powerful to account. And she made a difference.”

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