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The British Journalism Awards reward great public interest journalism regardless of the medium it appears in.
Launched partly as a response to the hacking scandal and the Leveson Inquiry, these awards are now in their sixth year and are seen as the UK's equivalent to the Pulitzer Prize in the US.
The 2018 British Journalism Awards are held in London December.
Application events and deadlines
Open to Entries at the Early Bird Rate
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Judging days
7pm Drinks Reception 8pm Dinner Served 9:15pm Awards Ceremony to commence 10:30pm Post Awards Drinks
Open to Entries at the Early Bird Rate
Entries close
Entries close for judging
Judging days
7pm Drinks Reception 8pm Dinner Served 9:15pm Awards Ceremony to commence 10:30pm Post Awards Drinks
For the journalist working in the field of the arts and entertainment who has done the most to bring newsworthy information to light and make a difference. The emphasis here is on reportage and investigation rather than criticism or comment. This category covers all aspects of the entertainment industry, showbiz and the creative arts. Collaborative entries are accepted.
Nominees
Miranda Sawyer – The Observer
Chrissy Iley – The Sunday Times Magazine
Mark Edmonds – Financial Times
Matthew Garrahan – Financial Times
Vanessa Thorpe – The Observer
Liz Hoggard – Daily Mail
For the journalist who has done the most to probe and investigate the world of business. Collaborative entries are accepted.
Nominees
Tom Warren and Alex Campbell – Buzzfeed
Symeon Brown – The Guardian
Jeff Prestridge – Mail on Sunday
Madison Marriage and Matt Garrahan – Financial Times
Tom Burgis – Financial Times
David Lewis, Philippe Engels – Reuters:
Jamie Nimmo – Mail on Sunday
Arash Massoudi – Financial Times
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For the series of articles, broadcasts or digital project which has done the most to make a difference in society and serve the public interest. You cannot enter the same work in Campaign and Investigation categories.
Judges will be looking for evidence of a campaign’s impact, originality, bravery, skill of execution and at how journalism has been used to further the campaign’s objectives.
Nominees
Boot Out Bailiffs – The Bristol Cable
Stub Out the Touts – Daily Record
Betrayal of the Brave – Daily Mail
Windrush – The Guardian
Jonathan Unqoed-Thomas – The Sunday Times
Dying Homeless – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
End Child Burial Fees – The Sunday Mirror
Energy Drinks Ban – The Mirror
This new category is for the best comment journalist of the year.
The judges are looking for the most incisive comment which has brought new ideas and thinking to bear when discussing a matter of public interest.
Nominees
James O’Brien – LBC
Dominic Lawson – The Sunday Times
Aditya Chakrabortty – The Guardian
Janice Turner – The Times
Peter Hitchens – Mail on Sunday
Ian Birrell – Mail on Sunday and i
John Harris – The Guardian
Susie Boniface – Mirror Online
This category is for the best journalism innovation of the year.
The judges are looking for a project which brings new information to light on a matter of public interest either directly, or indirectly by creating a new stream of revenue.
Innovative digital storytelling can be submitted in this category but it is also open to print and broadcast work.
Suitable entries could include:
A new editorial product or method of storytelling which has found a new audience
An innovative way of investigating a story
A paywall or other commercial strategy which helps to pay for journalism.
Nominees
TicToc (24/7 news livestream on Twitter)– Bloomberg (Mindy Massucci and Andrew J. Barden)
No Refuge – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (Maeve McClenaghan, Cash Carraway and Bureau Local network)
Relationship strategy – The Guardian
Uber Game – Financial Times
NHS Tracker – BBC (Nick Triggle and visual journalism unit)
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This is for the best features journalist of the year. It rewards excellent journalism on a matter of public interest which could be descriptive, of a human interest nature or based on an interview. This category is not intended for investigations or comment. Open to broadcasters, written pieces and digital projects. Collaborative entries are accepted.
Nominees
Alex Hannaford – British GQ Magazine
Duncan Leatherdale – BBC News
Ciaran Jenkins – Channel 4 News
Ros Wynne-Jones – Daily Mirror
Christina Lamb – The Sunday Times Magazine
John Domokos – The Guardian
Jon Manel – BBC Radio 4’s The World at One
Oobah Butler – Vice UK
For the journalist working for a UK audience, whose reports from overseas have done the most to serve the public interest. For print/online entries, provide up to three supporting articles. For broadcasters, up to three video or audio news clips, or one news programme (half hour or longer) can be submitted. Collaborative (team) entries are accepted. Supporting statement of up to 500 words.
Nominees
Quentin Sommerville – BBC News
Nawal al Maghafi – BBC Arabic
Alex Crawford – Sky News
Louise Callaghan – The Sunday Times
Larisa Brown – Daily Mail
Emily Feng – Financial Times
Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo– Reuters
Anthony Loyd – The Times
For the most incisive and revelatory public interest investigation of the year (you cannot enter the same work in Campaign and Investigation). Collaborative (team) entries are accepted.
The judges will be looking for work which is compelling and which brings significant new information to light on a matter of public interest.
Nominees
File on 4 – BBC Radio 4
Andy Davies and Kylie Morris – Channel 4 News
Cam Simpson, Gavin Finch and Kit Chellel – Bloomberg Businessweek
Carole Cadwalladr – The Observer
Michael Yong – Bristol Post
Sean O’Neill – The Times
Madison Marriage – Financial Times
Geraldine McKelvie & Nick Sommerlad – Sunday Mirror
For the outstanding British journalist of the year. Journalists entered in other categories will automatically be considered for this prize – but stand-alone entries can also be made for this award.
There is no shortlist for this prize – the winner will be announced on the night.
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This category is for the best journalism at a local and regional level.
It is open to local newspapers, websites and broadcast outlets. Those working for news outlets aimed at a national audience cannot enter this category.
Journalists can enter this category as individuals or teams. They may want to highlight one particular project, investigation, campaign or linked series of news stories.
The judges are looking for work which has done the most to bring new information to light on a matter of public interest and for journalism which has made a difference for the better at a local level.
Nominees
Charles Thomson – Yellow Advertiser Newspaper Series
Jonathan Gibson – BBC Birmingham
Matt Precey, Sarah Ward and Tom Barton – BBC East and Local
Democracy Reporting Service
Tom Bristow and Dominic Gilbert – Eastern Daily Press
Nick Southall – BBC Radio Shropshire
Michael Yong – Bristol Post
David Thompson and Stephen Nolan – BBC Radio Ulster
This award is for a relative newcomer to the industry (who may have worked in other jobs before) and has been a journalist for less than 36 months. Work most show evidence of being revelatory and serving the public interest.
The judges are looking for the new journalist who has done the most to bring new information to light on a matter of public interest.
Nominees
Siân Thomas – ITV Wales
Richard Holmes – Buzzfeed
George Greenwood – BBC
Emily Feng – Financial Times
Luke Barratt – Inside Housing
Aliya Ram – Financial Times
For the news organisation which has done the most to provide journalism which is interesting to the public and in the public interest. Open to newspapers, magazines, websites and broadcast outlets. This new category is for the news provider which has excelled in terms of serving the public interest and bringing new information to light. It is open to individual newspaper and magazine titles, websites and broadcast news programmes. News channels can enter this award as can news agencies. The judges are looking for a news provider which stands out because of the quality of its investigative journalism and ability to break news on matters of public interest.
For the photographer whose work has done the most to serve the public interest. Submit up to three photos (Jpeg files). Entrants can also provide PDFs of the photos as they appeared in print or online. Six-file limit per entry. Supporting statement of up to 500 words.
Nominees
Jack Hill – The Times
Anthony Devlin – Freelance (PA/Getty)
Hannah McKay – Reuters
Victoria Jones – Press Association
Charlie Bibby – Financial Times
Paula Bronstein – The Sunday Times
This category is for the best politics journalism published in any format aimed at a mainly UK audience.
The judges are looking for work which brings new information to light and which serves the public interest. Collaborative (team) entries are accepted.
Nominees
Antony Barnett, Charles Young, Joanna Burge & Katherine Haywood and Geoff Atkinson – Vera/Sunday Times for Channel 4
Faisal Islam – Sky News
Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnott – Sunday Times Insight Team
Laura Hughes – Financial Times
Tim Shipman – The Sunday Times
David Clegg and Kevin Mansi – Daily Record
This is the prize for the journalist who has done the most to serve the public interest with a piece of journalism which also has mass market appeal. Open to tabloid and mid-market newspapers, broadcast journalism with a mass-market audience and website journalism which has mass appeal. For print/online entries provide up to three supporting articles. For broadcasters up to three video or audio news clips, or one news programme (half hour or longer), can be submitted. Collaborative (team) entries are accepted. Supporting statement of up to 500 words.
Nominees
Jonathan Gibson – BBC Birmingham:
Jeremy Armstrong – The Mirror:
Alan Selby – Sunday Mirror:
Ian Birrell – Mail on Sunday:
Sean Poulter – Daily Mail:
Tom Pettifor – The Mirror:
Aimed at journalists who cover science, health and the environment, with a focus on those involved in investigative features and news (rather than comment). Collaborative (team) entries are accepted.
Note: Technology now has its own category.
Nominees
Warren Manger – The Mirror
Ross Lydall – London Evening Standard
Julian Sturdy – BBC East
Gareth Iacobucci – The BMJ
Catherine Jones – 5 News
Helen McArdle – The Herald
Sarah Neville – Financial Times
Deborah Cohen – BMJ
This is the prize for the best story of the year (you can only enter one story for this award).
The judges are looking for work which had an impact, brought new information to light and which served the public interest.
Nominees
Alberto Nardelli – Buzzfeed
Nick Hopkins – The Guardian
Sean O’Neill – The Times
Richard Pendlebury & Bill Akass – Daily Mail
Madison Marriage & Matthew Garrahan– Financial Times
Geraldine McKelvie – Sunday Mirror
Tom Pettifor and Louie Smith – The Mirror
A prize recognising the best public interest journalism on specialist/B2B newspapers, magazines, websites and broadcast outlets. This is for journalism aimed at a specialist business, trade or other interest areas.
Specialist journalists on general interest publications (such as national newspapers) can enter for this award if their specialism is not covered by other categories. Collaborative (team) entries are accepted.
Specialist titles can – if they wish – enter the same work in this category and another.
Nominees
Patrick Strudwick – Buzzfeed
Mark Urban – BBC Newsnight
Deborah Cohen – The BMJ
Luke Barratt – Inside Housing
Beverley Cuddy – Dogs Today
Tom Harper – The Sunday Times
Shaun Lintern – HSJ/Buzzfeed
Aimed at the sports journalist who has done the most to investigate the world of sport and serve the public interest. Collaborative (team) entries are accepted.
Preference will be given to articles which are revelatory and which hold those involved in sport to account.
Nominees
Nick Harris and Rob Draper – Mail on Sunday
Matt Precey, Julian Sturdy and Tom Barton – BBC East
Sean Ingle and Martha Kelner – The Guardian
Kit Chellel – Bloomberg Businessweek
Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnott – The Sunday Times
Simon Kuper – Financial Times
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For the journalist who has done the most over the course of the year to investigate the world of technology and serve the public interest. Collaborative (team) entries are accepted.
Nominees
File on Four – BBC Radio 4
Carole Cadwalladr – The Observer
Hal Hodson – The Economist
Jane Bird – Financial Times
John Thornhill – Financial Times
Babbage – The Economist Radio
This category was launched in memory of the late Sunday Times foreign correspondent Marie Colvin – who was killed reporting on the plight of people in the besieged Syrian city of Homs in 2012. It is free to enter and anyone can make a nomination. The judges are looking for a journalist who has raised the reputation of journalism and journalists through their efforts to bear witness to events in the way that Colvin did. The judges are particularly keen to recognise and encourage younger journalists who could be a “new Marie in the making” as one put it.
This is a new category to showcase outstanding investigative journalism by news orgnisations outside the UK. This is only for work aimed at an international audience.
Africa Eye and BBC Pidgin
European Investigative Collaborations
Wa Lone and Kyawa Soe Oo – Reuters
Clare Baldwin, Andrew R.C. Marshall and Manuel Mogato – Reuters
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Winner announced on the night
Winner announced on the night
Meet the judges
Giles is a former Editor-In-Chief of Property Week who started in journalism at its predecessor Estates Times in 1988. He has also worked as News Editor at the architects’ paper Building Design and as Deputy Editor at Building magazine
Former editor of the Daily Mirror
Giles Barrie is a Senior Managing Director at global PR firm FTI Consulting, based in London.
LUKE BLAIR, VICE PRESIDENT OF COMMUNICATIONS AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Freelance journalist and media consultant
Emeritus professor of journalism at Sheffield University
Michael Crozier is Editorial Director of Crozier Associates
Brian Flynn is a former investigations editor of The Sun.
Former editor of Which?, the Toronto Sun and four UK regional daily newspapers
Roderick Gilchrist is a former Deputy Editor at the Mail on Sunday and New York correspondent for the Daily Mail
Leon Hawthorne is a journalist, broadcaster, erstwhile TV executive and consultant on digital content strategy for newspaper and magazine groups.
Lindsey Hilsum is the International Editor of Channel 4 News, and the author of a forthcoming book
Former editor of The Sunday Times Insight Team and of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism
Stephen Jukes is Professor of Journalism at Bournemouth University's School of Journalism, English & Communication.
Alice Kay is a science press officer, she previously worked at the Science Media Centre and recently moved to Nature Research.
Anthony Longden has been a journalist for nearly 35 years, 22 of them spent as an editor and senior editorial executive in various regional companies in the UK
Director, Urbik
Gren Manuel is formerly executive editor for Europe for the Wall Street Journal and editor of Financial News.
Rob McGibbon is an author and freelance journalist who as written for numerous national newspapers and magazines since 1986. He is also a producer at Scoop Films
Unicorn Digital Media
Former Sunday Mirror political editor with 25 years experience in senior editorial positions on national and regional titles, including Mail on Sunday & Bristol Post.
Ian Murray is an award-winning journalist with almost 40-years’ experience in newsrooms and working with the British media.
A native of Belfast, Northern Ireland, Sam Ogle began his journalistic career on the Belfast Telegraph evening newspaper at the height of the IRA bombing campaign in the 1970s. At that time, and in those circumstances, there was no shortage of hard news to be covered. Later, he plied his trade for four years as an expatriate in the Ivory Coast followed by two years in Senegal and two in New York. Now resident in London, he edited Think Law magazine before specialising for the last thirteen years in the automotive logistics and supply chain industry. He has been editor of several automotive publications and, for the last six-and-a-half years, Automotive Purchasing & Supply Chain. He has moderated, and taken part in, panel discussions at automotive conferences in the UK, the USA, Russia, Turkey, Finland, Belgium, Germany, Austria and Mexico.
Iain Overton is an author and campaigner.
Dominic Young is CEO of Agate
Director of Business and Communications, ECA
Sean Ryan is the media director of Save the Children.
Fergus Shanahan is a former deputy editor and executive editor of The Sun.
Moira Sleight is Editor and Publisher of the Methodist Recorder weekly national newspaper and a Board member of both the Society of Editors and the London Press Club.
Dr Paul Lashmar is Deputy Head of Journalism at City, University of London
Jeremy Thompson retired from Sky News in 2016 after joining thee channel in 1993. He had a 50-year career in journalism and his memoirs, JT Breaking News an Autobiography are due to be published in October
Tim Walker is a writer, author and broadcaster. Formerly the Daily Telegraph's Mandrake diarist and theatre critic, he has more recently edited the Daily Mirror's Heckler election diary.
Former Director, MA in Investigative Journalism, City University London
Dr Karen Fowler-Watt is a former senior BBC journalist
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What do we do – Helping journalists since 1864
The Journalists’ Charity distributes grants and other forms of financial assistance to those in urgent need. In 2018, we will pay out between £400,000 and £500,000 in more than 140 cases with beneficiaries ages ranging from those in their 20s to those in their 90s.
No two cases are the same, no reasons are the same, no needs are the same. What they all have in common is that there is no-one else they can turn to for support.
We also work with other charities such as NUJ Extra, the Printing Charity, SSAFA, and Stepchange to ensure the best help and advice are available.
Although the Journalists’ Charity is steeped in history, its work is more vital today than it was when it was founded by Charles Dickens and others in 1864.
It is still run for journalists by journalists, who are all too aware of the pressures facing those working in the media in the 21st century. It supports professional journalists and their dependants from newspapers and magazines, television, radio and on-line.
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Aviva helps people save for the future and manage the risks of everyday life; the company paid out £34.6 billion in benefits and claims in 2017. Aviva paid out 98% of all claims received in 2017.
The BA (Hons.) Sports Journalism programme at the University of Gloucestershire has forged a reputation as one of the leading places to study sports media since its launch in 2014.
Graduates work for a range of organisations, including the Racing Post, the Independent, Reach plc and the Football Association, and students have secured jobs straight out of university in the media departments of Premier League and Championship clubs.
The Cheltenham-based course is accredited by the Broadcast Journalism Training Council, which has highlighted the breadth of innovative technology that the course incorporates into teaching.
Students benefit from the course’s excellent links with industry and an exciting list of visiting speakers, which includes Pat Murphy, Jill Douglas, Cornelius Lysaght and Tom Rostance. The programme has enjoyed successful partnerships with BT Sport and Reach, and has strong links with the Football Writers’ Association, the Rugby Writers’ Club and the Sports Journalists’ Association. In the FWA’s 2018-19 handbook alone the course has 31 associate members who are currently studying on the course.
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It all started out when Jasper Cuppaidge began brewing beer in the basement of his pub, The Horseshoe in Hampstead, for him to serve on the bar upstairs. He then moved under 6 railway arches in Camden where we brewed our very first beer that same year - Camden Hells Lager.
In 2017, we outgrew our space under the arches, and opened the doors to our second Home of Hells up in Enfield, North London with a party amongst the tanks.
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Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Through products and platforms like Search, Maps, Gmail, Android, Google Play, Chrome and YouTube, Google plays a meaningful role in the daily lives of billions of people and has become one of the most widely-known companies in the world. Google is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc
Transparency International UK (TI-UK) is the UK chapter of Transparency International, the global movement against corruption. TI-UK fights corruption by promoting changes in values attitudes and behaviour at home and abroad, through programmes that draw on the UK’s unique position as a global political and financial centre. TI-UK successfully campaigned for the introduction of the UK Bribery Act and more recently the Criminal Finances Act that will make it tougher for corrupt individuals to use the UK to launder stolen money.
Bournemouth University (BU) has a strong professional orientation with a focus on academic excellence and graduate employability. We have over 17,000 students, of which 1,500 are international students from around 130 countries.
We are proud to be ranked in the top 150 young universities in the world (THE Young University Rankings) and rose 18 places in The Guardian University Guide 2017. Our graduate employment rates are consistently high at over 90%.
Our Faculty of Media & Communication has over 4,000 students, and over 50 undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Our School of Journalism, English and Communication has a great reputation for innovative, collaborative, industry-leading courses where students gain relevant industry experience and the ability to put what you have learned into practice. We have courses in Multimedia Journalism, English, Communication & Media Creative Writing & Publishing and Literary Media at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Our close industry links with media industries such as BBC, Thomson Reuters and Newsquest ensure our courses remain relevant and ensure students are well prepared once they graduate.
We’re proud to be supporting the British Journalism Awards – good luck to everyone shortlisted!
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Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Through products and platforms like Search, Maps, Gmail, Android, Google Play, Chrome and YouTube, Google plays a meaningful role in the daily lives of billions of people and has become one of the most widely-known companies in the world. Google is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc
It was much more fun than rival awards ceremonies and much better to meet fellow journalists and award winners.
Congratulations to Press Gazette on a timely, welcome initiative. Press Gazette is one of the institutions that underpins our industry - much in vogue these days - and what you have done is very important for us all.
It was a very inspiring night.
A reminder of all that is best about British journalism in a very good venue with a very good audience. Congratulations on a great awards ceremony. I thought it was a really good atmosphere – and helped remind us of the importance of the brilliant journalism that we can all be proud of. We were pleased to be part of the evening.
I’ve won one or two broadcasting awards before but this is a wider award covering the whole of the British media and that’s what makes it extra special.
It gets bigger and better every year and celebrating journalism still somehow feels like an act of defiance... I remain delighted that science reporting takes it’s place alongside politics and business and this year... lots of awards I attend feel indulgent and irrelevant. This one feels important.
It was a huge honour to be nominated alongside so many great names from the industry.
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Entires submitted must have been published between 1st September 2017 - 31st August 2018 in order to be counted in this years British Journalism Awards
Early bird rate is available until 7th September
Entry deadline is 28th September
