The Sunday Telegraph

The Sunday Telegraph has demonstrated its strong voice and clear identity in the past year, alongside stellar coverage of the big events, a continued integration of the best of digital publishing into its pages, and being the place where the powerful want their opinions to be heard.

The entered examples are a small sample of the paper’s agenda-setting stories, strength at tackling difficult issues, and dynamic design and presentation that a broadsheet allows.

Never was this better demonstrated than on July 13 when at past 11pm, with the second edition deadline just minutes away, reports emerged of an assassination attempt on Donald Trump. Having led with an eye-catching poster front on England’s Euro final preparations for the first edition this was ripped up for second, combining with stunning effect the breaking news from America while maintaining the emotion of the day’s upcoming football event.

The Sunday Telegraph is willing to buck the trend with its publishing, defying convention on June 16 by splashing on a colour piece by Allison Pearson on the Princess of Wales’ return to public life after her treatment for cancer. This feelgood moment was beautifully presented across five pages backed up with powerful writing from the team.

Throughout the UK election campaign the Sunday Telegraph set the news agenda and none more so than on the final weekend ahead of polling when the then Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, chose to make one of his final appeals to voters in its pages in an exclusive interview with Camilla Turner. Packed with news lines the interview reflected the unrivalled status that the Sunday Telegraph has among centre-right publications and politicians.

It is on some of the divisive cultural and societal issues facing the country that the Sunday Telegraph’s journalism is at its most powerful, and it has led the way in reporting the alarming rise of extremism in the wake of the Oct 7 attacks and conflicts in Israel and Gaza. This included scooping the Asserson report, an alarming dossier of allegations of anti-semitic bias at the BBC which found the broadcaster breached its own guidelines 1,500 times during the conflict. This was widely followed up across national media.

As with the Daily Telegraph the Sunday has incorporated the best of the publisher’s online publishing to increase its quality and variety. A successful crossover format has been the Sunday Essay. Its strong weekly performance reflects the care and attention that goes into its digital commissioning, writing, and curation, which then translates into a strong full spread each Sunday, again making the most of the broadsheet format. The submitted entry was the best performing of the year.

Once more this year the Sunday Telegraph has exemplified creativity, personality, design excellence, and all-round unbeatable coverage.