Spotlight has an established tradition of ground breaking investigative journalism.
In 1994, Spotlight uncovered a network of cockfighting rings across Northern Ireland. After months of undercover investigative work, secret filming and gathering of evidence, Jeremy Adams, the reporter on the programme, confronted the guilty men. In 1997, Spotlight turned its attention to clockers . Stephen Walker investigated car dealers operating across Northern Ireland who were selling second hand cars with false mileage displays. Again, the programme involved the Spotlight team going undercover, and secretly filming the dealers as they tried to sell the clocked cars.