Andrew Jennings, a leading British investigative journalist who exposed multimillion-dollar vice and bribery in the upper echelons of two of the world’s biggest sporting organizations — the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), died Jan. 8 at a hospital in Carlisle, near his home in northwest England. He was 78.
Memorably unkempt, with a scruffy dress sense that made the rumpled TV detective Columbo look suave, Mr. Jennings was nonetheless considered one of the finest investigative reporters of his generation. The Washington Post once described Mr. Jennings, whose reporting also targeted London’s police force and the Italian mafia, as a combination of Watergate journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein rolled together, with “a touch of a Scottish burr and plenty of flannel.