WINNERS 2026
INDIVIDUAL AWARDS
Young Journalist of the Year
Malak A Tantesh
The Guardian
Aged just 20, Malak A Tantesh began reporting for the Guardian from Gaza in 2024 while she was living in a tent with her family. For the next 18 months, before being evacuated in a UK government-sponsored convoy, Tantesh reported almost daily on the worsening conflict and humanitarian disaster.She worked in some of the hardest conditio...
Daisy Graham-Brown
The Mail on Sunday
Daisy Graham-Brown has broken multiple agenda-setting exclusives for The Mail on Sunday since joining in 2024. Armed with determination and a meticulous eye for detail, she is as comfortable exposing political scandals as reporting human interest stories and pursuing complex investigations. Her dogged reporting is already having real-w...
Health Journalist of the Year
Rebecca Thomas
The Independent
The Independent’s health editor Rebecca Thomas has a track record of highlighting the plights of the most vulnerable, relentlessly pursuing whistleblower concerns about the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and consistently spotlighting safeguarding failures by healthcare services. She has become the go-to journalist for patients wan...
Photographer of the Year
Jack Hill
The Times
Jack Hill has been a photographer with The Times and The Sunday Times since 2002 andregularly covers international stories and global conflict. As chief news photographer in the past year he has travelled from Congo to the Ukrainian frontline, from Italy to see the raising of The Bayesian superyacht to the beaches of Northern France to...
News Reporter of the Year
Rob Pattinson
The Sun
Seventeen years after the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, Rob Pattinson achieved an exceptional breakthrough for The Sun, which formed the basis of a Channel 4 documentary and broke new ground in the ongoing mystery. Pattinson spent a year investigating why Germany’s high-profile case against prime suspect Christian Brueckner appear...
Critic of the Year
Catherine Nixey
The Economist
As culture correspondent for The Economist, Catherine Nixey’s writing is compelling, enjoyable and unfailingly original. Her reviews go further than simply critiquing new work, offering a broader analysis and cultural commentary of trends in the arts. Her piece on poetry takes a look at the common complaint that poetry doesn’t rhyme an...
Science and Technology Journalist of the Year
Tom Whipple
The Times
In science and technology writing, often what matters most is understanding, and distilling, complexity. And in an increasingly polarised world, with little room or patience for nuance, science journalism can play a vital role in providing much-needed light on complex or controversial topics. Tom Whipple, science writer for The Times, ...
Showbiz Reporter of the Year
Clemmie Moodie
The Sun
The Sun’s Clemmie Moodie leads the way in breaking the hottest showbusiness exclusives and setting the showbiz agenda. She secured a world exclusive interview with Kate Cassidy, the girlfriend of One Direction star Liam Payne, who tragically died in 2024, in an emotional chat that quickly went viral. Moodie was the one to break the new...
Foreign Reporter of the Year
Anthony Loyd
The Times
The Times’ special correspondent Anthony Loyd goes where others won’t, delivering exceptional, visceral reporting as a result. In powerfully written and forensic pieces, he reveals the human cost of wars, as well as clearly explaining the origins of conflicts that readers may not be familiar with.He travelled 500 miles across the deser...
Political Journalist of the Year
Winner: Pippa Crerar
The Guardian
Since the Labour party won the 2024 general election, Pippa Crerar has consistently held power to account, breaking agenda-setting stories and adroitly analysing the new political landscape.Crerar was first to reveal the government was planning a U-turn on cutting winter fuel payments, a defining moment in Starmer’s early premiership. ...
Environment Journalist of the Year
Costanza Gambarini
SourceMaterial
Costanza Gambarini has made a name for herself through groundbreaking and impactful environmental investigations. She combines complex data analysis with compelling human stories, and is a skilled videographer and photographer as well as a writer. Her reporting exposed how French oil giant TotalEnergies continued to fund Mozambican tro...
Travel Journalist of the Year
Chris Leadbeater
The Telegraph
A travel journalist of more than 20 years’ experience, and one of the UK’s most well regarded travel writers, Chris Leadbeater has been The Telegraph’s travel correspondent since 2018. His job has taken him to almost every corner of the planet; he has visited an impressive 101 countries to date.His decades’ of experience and compelling...
Data Journalist of the Year
Pamela Duncan
The Guardian
As data projects editor at The Guardian, Pamela Duncan has led a number of impactful data investigations into topics that really matter. This includes a landmark investigation into a Facebook network with connections to real-life violence, which received international media attention. Duncan developed a rigorous methodology to analyse ...
Max Harlow
Bloomberg
The Hugh Mcilvanney Award for Sports Journalist of the Year
David Walsh
The Sunday Times
As The Sunday Times’ chief sports writer, David Walsh’s work is always top quality and highly original. His is a unique voice in British sports journalism: evocative writing, unparalleled knowledge and never shying away from uncomfortable truths. His pieces always manage to deliver something unexpected to the reader across a wide varie...
Columnist of the Year - Broadsheet
Duncan Robinson
The Economist
As The Economist’s political editor, Duncan Robinson (via his Bagehot column) offers commentary and analysis on British politics, policies and societal trends. His work is thought-provoking, informed and unfailingly original.In ‘The idolatry of victimhood’, a piece which went viral, he explored how an obsession with victims leads to ba...
Columnist of the Year - Tabloid
Colin Robertson
The Sun
Colin Robertson is a fresh new voice in tabloid journalism. His work can move from laugh-out-loud funny to poignant and thought-provoking in a matter of sentences. Robertson’s work takes no prisoners, whether he’s skewering celebrity pomposity or taking on politicians. In a column tearing down Russell Brand’s reinvention as a born-agai...
Specialist Journalist of the Year
Charles Hymas
The Telegraph
After 20 years as a senior newspaper executive, The Telegraph’s Home Affairs Editor Charles Hymas returned to frontline journalism and his first love: getting scoops. His investigations have forced the government and party leaders to rethink their approaches to immigration, crime and free speech. In an eight-month investigation, he exp...
Sports Photographer of the Year
Mike Egerton
Press Association
PA Media photographer Mike Egerton has captured some of the defining sporting images from the sporting world in 2025. He was on hand to capture Brazilian footballer Marquinhos as he made his way through the wall of ticker tape before lifting he Champions League trophy in Munich for PSG. He has perfectly captured the power and skill of ...
Cartoonist of the Year
Matt Pritchett
The Telegraph
The Sunday Times consistently delivers journalism of the highest quality across all its platforms. Sunday is the best day of engagement across The Times app, print sales hold firm and subscriber numbers keep growing. Impactful investigations include the one into Agnes Wanjiru, a Kenyan mother whose body was dumped in a septic tank in 2...
Business and Finance Journalist of the Year
Ed Conway
Sky News
The last 12 months have seen intense economic turbulence, but Sky viewers have been fortunate to have economics and data editor Ed Conway guiding them through it. His work has helped viewers understand complex trade policy decisions and debate, translating abstract concepts into real-world stories.Conway’s investigation into the De Min...
Feature Writer of the Year - Broadsheet
Simon Hattenstone
The Guardian
Simon Hattenstone’s features display a deep empathy for their subjects and a deep interest in the surrounding issues, all delivered with a lightness of touch. His feature interviews demonstrate a unique ability to gain the trust and confidence of interviewees, ensuring readers hear their voice rather than his own. His story about Joe B...
Feature Writer of the Year - Tabloid
Jane Fryer
Daily Mail
Jane Fryer understands that some of the best, most moving stories are about normal people who have been thrust in the news cycle for the first – and possibly only – time. Her natural warmth sets people at ease and encourages them to open up. At the same time, her keen eye for detail means she does not shirk from asking uncomfortable qu...
Interviewer of the Year - Broadsheet
Charlotte Edwardes
The Guardian
Charlotte Edwardes is an interviewer at the top of her game. She is equally at home interviewing actors, politicians and writers; whoever the subject, she is able to win their trust and confidence. Guardian readers invariably come away from her interviews entertained, informed and with a much better understanding of their subject.Her i...
Interviewer of the Year - Tabloid
Clemmie Moodie
The Sun
Over her 20-year Fleet Street career, The Sun’s Clemmie Moodie has earned a reputation for fairness and decency, helping her elicit the best (refreshingly unguarded) moments out of her subjects.She secured the world exclusive first interview with US influencer Kate Cassidy, the girlfriend of One Direction star Liam Payne who tragically...
TEAM AWARDS
Investigation of the Year
Epstein’s Enduring Ties to the British Establishment
Bloomberg
Bloomberg’s investigation painstakingly pieced together the relationships between child sex offender Jeffery Epstein and members of the British establishment. Reporters Harry Wilson, Jason Leopold, Jeff Kao, Ava Benny-Morrison, Surya Mattu, Max Abelson and Dhruv Mehrotra obtained more than 18,000 previously unseen emails from one of Ep...
Scoop of the Year
Secret Afghan Airlift
Daily Mail
The Secret Afghan Airlift set the news agenda for days as MPs and the public discovered they had been kept in the dark for two years about a government scandal thanks to an unprecedented super-injunction. The court order had been obtained after the Mail’s David Williams discovered the government’s Afghan data leak in August 2023.Mail j...
News Website of the Year
The Times and The Sunday Times
The majority of subscribers to The Times and The Sunday Times read the publications online, with digital readers overwhelmingly opting to use the The Times Live app. In April 2025, The Times relaunched its most important digital asset.This was a culmination of a two-year project, involving 1,000 subscribers, to reimagine what makes a g...
News Podcast of the Year
Missing in the Amazon
The Guardian
Missing in the Amazon is a six-part podcast series investigating the murders of British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous defender Bruno Pereira in a remote corner of the Amazon rainforest. Produced over three years, it uncovers how the killings happened and investigates the complex networks of organised crime and politi...
Best Audience Engagement Initiative of the Year
Tactics Exposed
The Sun
What started as a woodwork project in The Sun head of sport Dean Scoggins’ kitchen has become the flagship pillar of the Sun Originals video network. Tactics Exposed began as a self-built football table, designed to offer a deep-dive analysis into football tactics, before being green-lit as part of the The Sun’s new video commissioning...
Daily Newspaper of the Year
Front Page of the Year - Broadsheet
The Guardian
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When Donald Trump was re-elected in November 2024, it was the unthinkable for Guardian readers, crushing hopes that had been raised after Kamala Harris took over Joe Biden’s faltering campaign for the Democrats.After working through the night on the election result, it was quickly and painfully clear that the next day’s paper needed to...
Front Page of the Year - Tabloid
The Sun on Sunday
The Sun on Sunday’s front page splash on 24 August did what only the best tabloid front pages can: distill a major revelation into an eye-catching and memorable format. The scoop, revealing then-Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner’s purchase of a third home, is accompanied by the iconic and witty headline ‘3 Pads Rayner’. It is wording...
Supplement of the Year
1843 Summer Issue
The Economist
In a world where so much content is optimised as online clickbait, The Economist’s 1843 supplement stands out. Covering under-reported parts of the world, from Kenya to Taiwan, it provides readers with original, ambitious and insightful in-depth feature stories. Its 48-page summer issue, part of The Economist’s summer special edition, ...
Campaign of the Year
Transparency in the Family Courts
Hannah Summers and Louise Tickle
The case of 10-year-old Sara Sharif, murdered by her father and stepmother in 2023, sent shockwaves around the UK, raising questions over why the authorities had failed to protect her. It also led freelance journalists Hannah Summers and Louise Sickle on a dogged campaign to ensure accountability. In September 2023, they self-funded th...
Excellence in Diversity Award
Winner: ‘Island of Strangers’ video, online and print series
The Mirror
The Mirror’s ‘Island of Strangers’ series works across print, video and online to ask how communities in Britain cross difficult divides. The project was devised as the Prime Minister gave a speech asking whether the UK was becoming ‘an island of strangers’ (a phrase he later said he regretted using). Travelling from Teesside to Mersey...
ORGANISATIONS AWARD
Daily Newspaper of the Year
WINNER: The Times
The Times can claim to be the complete multimedia, multi-platform package. The Times (and the Sunday Times) now has 640,000 subscribers for digital alone; combined with print it has more than 700,000 subscribers. In audio, its podcast portfolio continues to grow and Times Radio has enjoyed record growth year-on-year, reaching 622,000 l...
Sunday Newspaper of the Year
The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times consistently delivers journalism of the highest quality across all its platforms. Sunday is the best day of engagement across The Times app, print sales hold firm and subscriber numbers keep growing. Impactful investigations include the one into Agnes Wanjiru, a Kenyan mother whose body was dumped in a septic tank in 2...