INDIVIDUAL AWARDS
Young Journalist of the Year
Aadam Patel
Mail Sport
Aadam Patel, a graduate of The Daily Mail Trainee Scheme, was an irrepressible force of nature for Mail Sport across the last 12 months, writes Marc Padgett, the Head of Sport at The Mail. Whether it’s hard-hitting news stories, sensational exclusive features or interviewing fans from around Europe on the streets of Germany throughout ...
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Daisy Graham-Brown
Mail on Sunday
Brimming with determination and equipped with a meticulous eye for detail, Daisy Graham-Brown has broken multiple agenda-setting exclusives while working at The Mail on Sunday which range from political scandals to human interest stories and complex investigations. Since joining the newspaper in January 2024 after completing the gradua...
Katie Tarrant
The Sunday Times
Having only been promoted from the Sunday Times graduate trainee scheme last year, I’m delighted to have secured accountability for vulnerable people who have been failed by institutions, and to have pursued important stories across Europe and the Middle East. One of my investigations uncovered miscarriages of justices within Scoutin...
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Meike Leonard
Mail on Sunday
At the age of 24 Meike has already made a huge impact as a tenacious young reporter with an eye for the issues of the moment and a natural ability for finding the human interest that forms the beating heart of a story. Her remit straddles newspaper and digital news – both of which she has excelled at – but in particular, it’s Meike’s l...
Sabrina Miller
Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday
Aged just 24, Sabrina Miller has already built up an impressive reputation for exposing wrongdoing, championing victims, and holding both Governments and extremists to account. Her portfolio from the past 12 months includes a heartbreaking sit-down interview with former Israeli hostage Hagar Brodutch, who was kidnapped from her home...
Sarah Aziz
Freelance
Sarah Aziz is a freelance journalist from Kolkata, India. She is currently an MS candidate in Journalism at Columbia University. Her work focuses on investigations and social justice issues revolving around marginalised communities. She has reported for international news outlets like The Guardian, The Telegraph, Christian Science Moni...
Simar Bajaj
Freelance
Simar Bajaj is a 22-year-old freelancer who does a remarkable job centering the human story in his work. He delivers solid science with elan and wide-ranging references to history, making complex medical topics accessible. His award entry includes features on the tortuousness of “phone addiction,” the ways obesity drugs are transformin...
Health Journalist of the Year
Eleanor Hayward
The Times
In a year when Ozempic dominated the news agenda, Eleanor Hayward exposed the dark side of the booming market for weight loss drugs. Her investigation revealed how patients can easily obtain powerful drugs such as Wegovy online from high street pharmacies - even if they are a healthy weight. This story involved going undercover and get...
Ethan Ennals
Mail on Sunday
Ennals showed his ability to set the health news agenda this year with a series of revelatory stories. Over the past 12 months, he has written more than a dozen articles on the controversial use of physician associates (PAs) in the NHS, as part of The Mail on Sunday’s Rein in The Physician Associates campaign. When Ennals launched the ...
Jennifer Rigby
Reuters
While global health officials toiled toward a pandemic treaty to ensure a fair distribution of vaccines and medicines, the worst mpox outbreak on record was unfolding, unimpeded, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Vaccines and treatments had helped tackle cases in the United States and Europe during a global outbreak in 2022, and h...
Laura Donnelly
The Telegraph
Two major classes of medicine have dominated the medical landscape over the last year: the first drugs to slow progression of Alzheimer’s disease, and ‘Ozempic’ style injections which have been found to have a dramatic impact on a host of conditions. Laura Donnelly’s exclusives on both set her far ahead of her peers. In August, she re...
Rebecca Thomas
The Independent
The Independent’s Health Correspondent, Rebecca Thomas has an impressive track record when it comes to effecting change for both the public at large and for vulnerable people. Rebecca’s dogged pursuit of the truth has led to the overhaul of one of Europe’s largest healthcare regulators, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). Sim...
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Sarah Neville
Financial Times
Sarah Neville draws on decades of health reporting to uncover original stories and tell them with authority, depth and panache. The pieces submitted explore some of the biggest themes in global healthcare: gender bias in medicine; the reshaping of the workforce as hard-pressed health systems deploy less qualified staff in place of medi...
Shaun Lintern
The Sunday Times
Shaun Lintern demonstrates his range as The Sunday Times health editor through these three remarkable stories that combine rigorous investigation, human compassion, and social impact. Lintern’s skill as a health journalist is cultivating well-placed sources at the very heart of the NHS to help deliver meticulously researched exposés th...
Photographer of the Year
James Glossop
The Times and The Sunday Times
James Glossop has been a photographer with The Times since 2008, working primarily outside London. Commissions have taken him from Greenland to the Maasai Mara, Hollywood to the Vatican. His style is well known among picture editors for combining gritty reportage realism with cinematic lighting at any location. His current role as the ...
Richard Pohle
The Times and The Sunday Times
Richard Pohle has submitted three photographs highlighting domestic events from a year of photography both at home and abroad. The Times and Sunday Times staff photographer found himself in the middle of what he describes as “one of the worst press scrums I’ve been in”, to get the picture of former BBC presenter Huw Edwards arriving a...
Simon Townsley
The Telegraph
In Vancouver Simon sought to document the chaos and injustice in the lives of people on the streets and the effect of a government decriminalization experiment on them. He took his time, speaking with dozens of addicts who were willing to be photographed and share their stories. Each had been abandoned, abused or neglected by those the...
Stefan Rousseau
The Press Association
As Chief Political Photographer of the Press Association, I try to show politicians in their true light and depict them in an honest and open way. All political parties and government departments employ their own photographers now and release their own sanitised and vetted pictures to the media so it's more important than ever to show ...
News Reporter of the Year
Emine Sinmaz
The Guardian
Emine's reporting has meticulously delved into the human element behind news stories which have maintained a hold on the popular attention. She has travelled around the world in pursuit of exclusive tales that uncover the depth of feeling and compassion that lie beneath daily news stories. Late last year, tragedy struck on the Bibby S...
Gabriel Pogrund
The Sunday Times
Gabriel has broken a string of stories across politics, policing and finance which have changed perceptions, share prices and government policy. First: the scoops which sparked the first political crisis of Keir Starmer’s administration - and a national conversation about the relationship between money and politics. The revelation...
Jacob Dirnhuber
MailOnline
In 2023/24, Jacob Dirnhuber has continued to lead the way in applying open-source intelligence techniques to the Mail’s general news output – delivering a string of high-profile exclusives in the process. Jacob was forced to teach himself how to find stories using only ingenuity and the internet in the first years of his career, after ...
Paul Morgan-Bentley
The Times
Paul Morgan-Bentley’s reporting has shown bravery, determination and sensitivity to hold power to account and bring about change to benefit the most vulnerable people in society. Earlier this year he went undercover inside one of the country’s most dangerous prisons, HMP Bedford, to expose how Britain’s prison crisis has left jails cr...
Robert Mendick
The Telegraph
Robert Mendick secured a series of agenda-setting exclusives over the year across a wide range of subjects at home as well as reporting from Gaza, northern Israel, two months in the the US covering the election and from Mexico’s southern border, where he followed a convoy of refugees making the dangerous journey through drug cartel cou...
Sabah Choudhry
Sky News
In August 2023, Surrey Police revealed they had discovered the body of a 10-year-old missing girl at home in Woking, and that they were looking for three people who were known to the child. It was also stated that international agencies were involved. Sabah Choudhry, a Sky News correspondent, used her forensic investigative skills to...
Shanti Das
The Observer
Shanti Das is an investigative reporter for the Observer whose work consistently uncovers the most serious institutional failings and holds power to account. Meticulously-researched and powerfully told, her exclusive investigations led the Charity Commission to launch a probe into a Scientology-linked rehab centre accused of safeguardi...
Critic of the Year
Camilla Long
The Sunday Times
Camilla Long doesn’t take any prisoners. She is unfailingly honest about her response to what she is watching, even if it is a show brimming with national treasures surfing a wave of critical acclaim - or Netflix generated hype - and seems to demand instant genuflection. Every Sunday she delivers a killer mix of irreverent, sparky ...
Deborah Ross
Mail on Sunday
Television’s water-cooler moments are thin on the ground these days. Instead we are bombarded with viewing options on multiple platforms, many of them over-hyped. Deborah Ross is a wonderfully entertaining and trusted guide. Her weekly column, which has been running for over a decade, navigates a path for readers, steering them towards...
Giles Coren
The Times
After 24 years as the Times Restaurant critic, Giles Coren continues to get under his readers’ skin. They love him or they hate him, but they can’t ignore him. His success lies not just in the effortless fluency of his writing, the way his original prose gets straight to the heart of his subject, but in his ability to combine humour wi...
Jay Rayner
Observer Magazine
Jay Rayner, as well as setting the benchmark for restaurant reviewing for over two decades, also has a keen journalistic eye for a good story. And earlier this year he discovered the amazing story of refugee-turned-restauranter Ghofran Hamza, who single handedly runs Arabic Flavour in Aberystwyth. She grew up in Syria on the border w...
Neil McCormick
The Telegraph
Neil McCormick has been writing music reviews for the Telegraph since 1996, and as our Chief Music Critic has become one of the country’s most authoritative voices on popular music and its wider cultural impact. The Telegraph has published 170 articles by Neil in this 12-month period, ranging from reviews of concerts, albums, books and...
Waldemar Januzczak
The Sunday Times
Art is a tricky subject for a newspaper critic. In the wrong hands, it can appear distant and exquisite. Even irrelevant. One way to misunderstand it is to see it as a plaything of the privileged: an expensively acquired taste like oysters or cavolo nero. But to see it that way is to assume too much and observe too little. In fact,...
Broadsheet Interviewer of the Year
Charlotte Edwardes
The Guardian
Charlotte Edwardes is that rarest of interviewers who – in her exquisite and spare prose – allows her subjects to reveal themselves in word and deed rather than making the interview an exploration of herself. In winning the trust of the interviewees, she is never soft, though she shies away from crude judgement. In the finest tradition...
Decca Aitkenhead
The Sunday Times
When Sir Chris Hoy was ready to reveal his terminal cancer diagnosis, his team knew exactly who should tell his story. They offered the Sunday Times the exclusive interview on one condition: that it was with Decca. Their trust in her is a testimony to her reputation as Fleet Street’s pre-eminent interviewer, and was rewarded with a br...
Eva Wiseman
Observer Magazine
Eva Wiseman has long been one of the Observer's finest writers and columnists. At the end of 2009, she started her column in the Observer Magazine, a delicious mix of politics, poetry and surprising opinions. But it’s Eva’s delightfully frank approach to interviewing that has been one of the real finds of journalism, particularly in th...
Josh Glancy
The Sunday Times
From pints with Keir Starmer to champagne with Jilly Cooper to schnitzel with Vanessa Feltz, this is a trio of glorious Sunday Times Magazine interviews by Josh Glancy. Gorgeously written, deeply perceptive and revelatory. Many interviews these days involve a short tete a tete and a write up low on depth and real character. It makes a ...
Simon Hattenstone
The Guardian
Simon Hattenstone has written many powerful interviews over the last year, not least his encounter in March with Nick Cave. The singer-songwriter is also an author and artist – but, typically, Hattenstone was most interested in Cave the man, the father who had lost two sons in less than a decade. Their meeting was moving for Cave, for ...
Tim Adams
The Observer
Tim Adams is a lead feature writer at the Observer, contributing features, interviews, reviews and comment. Tim is a sensitive and versatile interviewer, always gaining the trust of the people he meets, and subtly revealing their true character. His interviews are honest, reflective and beautifully written.He says:Of the interviews I ...
Science and Technology Journalist of the Year
Ben Spencer
The Sunday Times
October 6, 2024 - Quantum computing: everything everywhere all at once Ben Spencer thrives on complexity. His strength as a science journalist is grounded in his ability to explain complicated issues without dumbing them down, using human stories to take the reader with him. There are few more complicated subjects than quantum computi...
Kaya Burgess
The Times
Explaining complex and often controversial concepts in a clear and engaging way is crucial for both of Kaya Burgess’s patches at The Times, as Science Reporter and Religious Affairs Correspondent. In his science brief, he covers breaking news, investigations, colourful interviews and features, including exclusives this year on the chao...
Madeleine Cuff
New Scientist
As environment reporter for New Scientist, Madeleine Cuff covers the cutting-edge of climate science, synthesising the latest research and its real-world implications to produce accessible, vital journalism. Her work opens up the discussions taking place among climate scientists to all of us, handling nuance and subtlety without resort...
Madhumita Murgia
Financial Times
Madhu continues to dominate coverage of the technology industry and has consistently been the most impactful tech journalist in the country. She is a masterful scoop-getter, this year revealing - alongside colleague Richard Waters - that Google was considering charging for artificial intelligence features in its search engine, the bigg...
Robin McKie
The Observer
The stories entered for the science category emphasize the need for action in response to inadequacies reported in The Observer. In the first case, Scientists urge GPs to share UK patient data for research into new treatments, Robin revealed that despite several years of pressing for doctors' data to be given to Biobank to help drug ...
Tom Whipple
The Times
Perhaps more than any other discipline, Science and Technology journalism is about explanation. It is about conveying complexity, understanding caveats, and synthesizing information. It is about knowing when and how to simplify, and - especially - when not to. These three articles in different ways demonstrate Tom Whipple's ability to ...
Showbiz Reporter of the Year
Alison Boshoff
Daily Mail
An Alison Boshoff byline is the gold standard of showbusiness reporting. Navigating the most demanding of briefs with an intelligence and experience that sets her apart from many rivals, Alison not only delivers exclusive new lines time and again but writes with a depth and understanding that takes readers far beyond the headlines. T...
Clemmie Moodie
The Sun
It has been a vintage year for Clemmie. Unequivocally, she has led the way in breaking showbusiness exclusives - with three of her stories this year leading the BBC 10 O’Clock News. From announcing the new hosts of This Morning - Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard - to revealing Anne Robinson courting Andrew Parker Bowles, Clemmie’s reporting...
Ellie Henman
The Sun
The Sun’s Ellie Henman was the first person to report allegations regarding Gregg Wallace’s conduct at the BBC. Her groundbreaking reporting on October 14 led directly to the BBC launching a probe into his behaviour – which The Sun broke exclusively online on November 28 after Ellie received a tip off. Following Ellie’s groundbreaking ...
Jonathan Dean
The Times and The Sunday Times
Jonathan Dean has, once again, secured a rush of exclusives with the biggest A-Listers on the planet — and got them to say things that they’ve never said before, bringing new insight to very familiar names. Interviews are his usual beat, then, but above that, this year, was his global exclusive that the Gallaghers had buried the hatche...
Katie Hind
Daily Mail & The Mail on Sunday
2024 was an exceptional year for Katie Hind. She led the industry’s coverage of the torrid scandals that nearly brought down Strictly Come Dancing in its 20th anniversary year. After a series of shocking allegations by Amanda Abbington against her former dance partner Giovanni Pernice, Katie bravely dissected the truth from claim, coun...
Lucy Osborne and Stephanie Kirchgaessner
The Guardian
The Guardian’s investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct by David Copperfield, one of the world’s most successful entertainers, shone a devastating spotlight on four decades of alleged abuse. The investigation, which began in 2019, was published in May across four articles, a video and two-part podcast. It reported 16 women’s...
Foreign Reporter of the Year
Arkady Ostrovsky
The Economist's 1843 Magazine
Having spent over a decade reporting on Russia, Arkady Ostrovsky knows the country from the inside out—and his excellent features are testament to the depth of his experience. For 1843 magazine, he wrote a gripping piece entitled “Life and death in Putin’s gulag”, which provides a powerful and unsettling comparison between Russia’s cur...
Catherine Philp
The Times
After Ukrainian forces launched their audacious incursion into Russian territory, Catherine was determined to cross over and visit for herself. To do so was dangerous: Russia had launched a fight-back and heavy battles were going on. Additionally, Russia threatened to criminally prosecute any journalist who crossed and seek Interpol re...
Christina Lamb
The Sunday Times
It’s hard to think of a more polarising conflict in recent times than the Israeli-Gaza war. This year Christina has covered this major story with great passion, courage and insight. Despite her ground-breaking work elsewhere - such as reporting from Ukraine on the children stolen by Putin, or covering the forgotten ten-year plight of t...
Maggie Michael
Reuters
In 2023, the world focused on two wars – one in Israel and Gaza, the other in Ukraine. But war was also raging in Sudan – a war as brutal and bloody, and as devastating in its toll. Many have referred to the conflict, now in its tenth month, as “the forgotten war.” Reuters did not forget. Within days of the fighting’s outbreak in K...
Shaun Walker
The Guardian
Shaun Walker has reported on Russia and Ukraine for the past two decades, and brings that depth of knowledge and experience to his continuing coverage of the war in Ukraine. While never losing sight of the horrific nature of Russia’s brutal invasion, and the inspiring tales of Ukrainian resilience, Shaun has also tried to tell more dif...
Wendell Steavenson
The Economist's 1843 Magazine
This year, Wendell Steavenson has told compelling human stories from conflict zones all across the world - from Ukraine and Gaza, where her original reporting sets her apart, to the South Caucasus, a profoundly under-reported yet globally significant region in this period of aggressive Russian expansion. In “Nagorno-Karabakh, the repu...
Political Journalist of the Year
Billy Kenber
The Times
In the past 12 months, Billy Kenber’s reporting has ended the careers of two sitting MPs and exposed the secretive efforts of powerful interests working to try and influence MPs and undermine public health policies.In April, he revealed that the then-Tory MP Mark Menzies had misused £14,000 in campaign funds to pay personal bills, culm...
Caroline Wheeler
The Sunday Times
Caroline has a peerless track record of delivering exclusive scoops, uncovering agenda-setting stories the state often does not want the public to know. She balances her investigative “digging” whilst also maintaining extraordinary access to the highest echelons of government, conducting interviews with the most powerful politicians in...
Gabriel Pogrund
The Sunday Times
Gabriel broke the stories which sparked the first political crisis of Keir Starmer’s administration - and a national conversation about the relationship between money and politics. The first was the revelation that Lord Alli, Starmer’s biggest personal donor, had an access-all-areas pass to No10 - and had used it to host a receptio...
Glen Owen
Mail on Sunday
In a year that saw Westminster convulsed by a change of government and the annihilation of the Tories, there was one constant – the ineffable Glen Owen calmly navigating readers of the country’s biggest-selling Sunday newspaper through the changing political landscape. His weekly Gatling gun of exclusive stories, insightful analysis an...
Pippa Crerar
The Guardian
Pippa Crerar continues to shine a light into every corner of British politics with her agenda-setting journalism. She has broken major exclusives, scrutinised politicians of all parties - and their policies - and analysed the fast-changing political landscape both in the run-up to the general election and the early months of the Labour...
Steven Swinford
The Times
In a pivotal election year Steven has consistently led the agenda, breaking major stories of both national and international significance. In January he revealed that the UK and US were poised to mount airstrikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen, before the RAF typhoons involved had even left the runway. The exclusive story was picked up all...
Tim Shipman
The Sunday Times
Throughout another historic year for British politics, Tim Shipman was the essential political writer, delivering the first draft of history every weekend on the disintegration of the Sunak government and the early tribulations of the Starmer regime. In Westminster 6pm on a Saturday means one thing: it is time to turn to the Sunday Tim...
Environment Journalist of the Year
Damien Carrington
The Guardian
The world’s nations claim they still aim to hold global heating to the internationally agreed 1.5C rise in global temperatures. But, the Guardian revealed, the vast majority of most informed people on the planet believe that is now impossible, with a “semi-dystopian” super-heated future most likely. Environment editor Damian Carrington...
Helena Horton
The Guardian
Helena Horton revealed definitively how the environment in the UK is less protected because of post-Brexit divergence. No one else had previously done this work, despite it being something that many environment groups suspected, and there is no government body tracking the divergence between the EU and the UK. Horton spent months analy...
Karl J Mathiesen
POLITICO
This year, Karl Mathiesen has produced an outstanding series of lyrical features on the political challenges of dealing with the climate crisis. Rather than ignore the trade-offs involved in protecting the environment, Karl’s reporting looks them in the eye. His reporting shaped the political discourse on climate change in the UK and...
Laura Hughes
Financial Times
While policy makers were busy tackling the well known issues posed by raw sewage and air pollution, Hughes uncovered another environmental human health hazard.Hughes has revealed how abandoned lead metal mines continue to leech this toxic metal into the environment, where it accumulates in waterways and soil before being consumed by an...
Lucie Heath
The i Paper
As i’s environment correspondent, Lucie has produced front-page stories that have influenced policy and brought important matters of public interest to light. She has spearheaded i’s Save Britain’s Rivers campaign, which has shone a light on the devastating impact pollution is having on our waterways. As part of this campaign, she h...
Simon Evans
Carbon Brief
Over the past year, Evans has produced some of the world’s most influential climate and energy journalism. His articles have been cited by Hilary Clinton, among others, along with publications in dozens of countries. In March 2024, Evans wrote about the climate impacts of Trump winning the 2024 election, which could add 4bn tonnes of ...
Steph Spyro
Daily Express
Steph Spyro is a young reporter who tirelessly champions the biodiversity and climate crisis both at home and abroad. She demonstrated empathetic reporting on the humanitarian crisis in Tigray earlier this year when she ventured to the war-torn region in Ethiopia. The intrepid journalist entered Tigray as a charity worker, instead of a...
Travel Journalist of the Year
Chris Leadbeater
The Telegraph
Chris Leadbeater is no stranger to the Travel Writer category of the Press Awards. He has been nominated twice in recent years, and is the current holder of the award. A travel journalist of over two decades’ experience, and one of the most highly regarded travel writers in Britain, Chris has been The Telegraph’s Travel Correspondent s...
David Pilling
Financial Times
David Pilling is a news and feature writer, not a specialist travel writer, and it shows in the travel pieces he produces for the FT. He writes in a broad variety of tones and styles that go beyond the typical travel offering. The pieces submitted cover the gamut from a hard-hitting look at what lies behind the creation of a safari exp...
Duncan Craig
Freelance
Duncan Craig is one of the UK’s most experienced and versatile travel journalists. As Travel Editor of The Sunday Times, he helmed the section to numerous awards and was three times shortlisted for Travel Journalist of the Year at the Press Awards. Now operating as freelancer, he writes for a host of titles, including the Financial Tim...
Greg Dickinson
The Telegraph
Greg Dickinson, Senior Travel Writer, joined The Telegraph in 2018, and with a readership of more than five million in the last 12 months, is fast becoming one of the country’s most influential travel writers. Greg’s articles for Telegraph Travel range from consumer advice columns to colourful destination features, celebrity interviews...
Kevin Rushby
The Guardian
Kevin Rushby is a journalist facing an existential crisis, like many of us in the age of global warming – he is cursed with a love of travel but very aware of the impact of climate change. At the same time, his research has identified plenty of long-haul holidays that really do benefit local communities where tourism is vital. His solu...
Ruaridh Nicoll
Freelance
Ruaridh Nicoll’s efforts to find far-flung places filled with unusual people is on display in this entry. He is very proud of his piece from the Cocos (Keeling) islands 1,000km off the Australian west coast, not only because very few readers will have heard of it, but also because the history and current community are so fascinating. (...
Sarah Turner
Freelance
Sarah Turner’s work brings a fresh perspective to travel journalism. Her articles - across both broadsheet and tabloid newspapers - often examine trends, including emerging destinations, design and regenerative tourism. She excels at providing compelling stories about people and places while also analysing a complex and powerful indust...
Simon Usborne
Financial Times
There is a tendency for travel writers to confect emotion - being moved as the sun's perfect orb dips into the wine-dark sea, wowed by the artistry of a star chef or humbled in the face of the vast African plains. Often it comes across as hammy, or worse, fake. Simon Usborne's work is different - travel journalism more than travel wri...
Data Journalist of the Year
Annie Gouk
Reach PLC
Having worked as a data journalist at Reach for nearly a decade, Annie Gouk is currently the Data Investigations Editor. She leads data-driven investigative journalism across Reach’s regional and national titles, with a particular focus on high impact special projects.As part of her role, Annie explores innovative storytelling formats,...
Ben Butcher
The Telegraph
Ben is a collaborative force in the Telegraph newsroom. He believes deeply that data should be at the heart of the daily news cycle and is relentless in his mission to personalise news for the Telegraph's readers. As a result his presence - and byline - reaches every desk in the newsroom, from health to politics, features to personal f...
George Greenwood
The Times
George Greenwood’s data journalism this year for The Times has had huge impact. His work resulted in new police investigations expected to recover millions of pounds from proceeds of crime, exposed a corporate campaign to undermine council child obesity reform leading to changes in government policy, and won major transparency victori...
Tom Calver
The Times and The Sunday Times
Tom is the Data Editor of The Times and The Sunday Times. He leads a team of eleven data and visual journalists, and writes across both papers. Since September, Tom has been writing a weekly column in The Sunday Times called Go Figure, where he takes a challenging question and attempts to reframe our perceptions of the world through da...
The Hugh Mcilvanney Award for Sports Journalist of the Year
Daniel Taylor
The Athletic
Daniel Taylor’s portfolio of work builds on his reputation for brilliant investigative journalism. His first two submissions are exclusive investigations which broke two of the most significant stories of the year - the circumstances that led to Sheffield United women’s player Maddy Cusack taking her own life, and the exposing of Jonat...
David Walsh
The Sunday Times
1. England’s football team enjoyed eight good years under Gareth Southgate. The team reachedtwo European Championship finals and the last four at the 2018 World Cup. Under Southgate, the culture around the team improved to a point where the best English players rediscovered the joy of representing their country. While many appreciated ...
Ian Herbert
Mail Sport
Ian writes at the axis of news and sport, looking to uncover new information and earn cut-through and readership through a high level of new detail and fact-finding allied to a high standard of writing. The first of these four reports aimed to get to the bottom of the violence and hooliganism which rocked British football when Europe...
Jeremy Wilson
The Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph
- Jeremy Wilson has led the Telegraph’s groundbreaking campaign into British football’s dementia scandal since 2016, successfully lobbying for research which revealed that former professionals are at a 350% increased risk of dying from neurodegenerative disease. With the family’s consent, he also then disclosed the news that Sir Bobby ...
Martin Samuel
The Times and The Sunday Times
Martin Samuel has enjoyed an exceptional year for The Times and Sunday Times by consistently delivering first-class exclusive interviews and searing commentary on the biggest topics in sport. Luke Littler interview for Times Saturday magazine - February 2024 Martin interviewed the 17-year-old who quickly became one of the sporting se...
Oliver Brown
The Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph
Oliver Brown is Britain's foremost sports writer and has enjoyed an exceptional year. His insight and understanding is superb, and his ability to turn his hand to any sport with the same authority is unparalleled. He has an instinctive understanding of stories which matter to Telegraph readers, which came to the fore during the story...
Oliver Holt
Mail Sport
Broadsheet Columnist of the Year
Alan Rusbridger
The Independent
There are few people in the UK who can claim to understand the media, free speech and the role of journalism better than Alan Rusbridger. The Pulitzer prize-winning former editor of The Guardian – and now columnist for The Independent – writes brilliantly and provocatively on the state of the media, the climate crisis and the wider po...
Camilla Long
The Sunday Times
In a year of world-changing politics, Camilla Long has been at the heart of the action. Her vivid, signature prose and killer observations delight and engage readers - yet also draw them into the more serious implications of each story. On 25 August, she reported from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, in a column headlined...
Daniel Finkelstein
The Times
Daniel Finkelstein brings to his columns well-informed thinking, rich historical knowledge, experience of having worked in politics at the highest level and a strong desire to do more than simply reflect mainstream opinions. His pieces have heft intellectually and politically and often strike out in a direction that others have not tak...
Kate Lister
The i Paper
Kate Lister is the country's most exciting writer on modern life. Her background as a popular sex historian informs columns which are hilariously frank, candid and expertly researched. By sharing her personal experiences with her trademark wit, Kate gives a refreshingly raw and honest take on the reality of being a single woman today. ...
Kenan Malik
The Observer
When Prospect magazine chose Kenan Malik as one of its 25 “World’s Top Thinkers” of 2024 with “ideas for a world on the brink”, it observed that “Not all readers will agree [with him]. But that is the point: Malik is someone worth disagreeing with.” That is the spirit in which Malik writes his Observer column, too. Malik’s columns s...
Marina Hyde
The Guardian
Another rollercoaster year of political upheaval, sporting drama and pop cultural WTF-ery could have been specifically designed for twice weekly intervention by Marina Hyde. She has often been hilarious and always perceptive across the broadest range of subjects, but also markedly unafraid to use her platform to call out injustice. T...
Melanie Reid
The Times
It's almost 15 years since Melanie Reid fell from her horse and broke her neck and back. The accident left the talented journalist paralysed but, just days after the accident, she was writing again (her first piece dictated into a dictaphone in ICU). Journalism - and specifically writing about life on the frontline of disability - beca...
Nesrine Malik
The Guardian
Nesrine Malik has, with restrained but powerful prose, as well as on the ground reporting, captured the racial and class inflected tensions that have stalked British politics and society over the past year. In doing so, she offers not only a way forward out of social discord, but a clear eyed assessment of how that discord comes about....
Sonia Sodha
The Observer
Observer columnist Sonia Sodha never shies away from controversial subjects, but what really sets her columns apart is her ability to make technical areas of law, policy and medicine effortlessly accessible, and to think outside familiar frames of reference to bring fresh and nuanced perspectives to our readers that they can’t get else...
Specialist Journalist of the Year
Danielle Sheridan
The Telegraph
With the world at war, defence reporting has never been more critical. At the start of this year, Danielle Sheridan exclusively revealed that the Head of the Army was to deliver a controversial speech warning that, due to the dwindling size of the Armed Forces, the British public would be called up to fight should the country become ...
David Woode
The Times
David Woode’s public interest journalism this year has shown courage, sensitivity and generated a national conversation about the effectiveness of police stop and search and the drivers of serious violence. His submissions for Specialist Journalist of the Year illustrate the influence of gangs on impressionable boys and how their offen...
Jerome Starkey
The Sun
When a Trident 2 ballistic missile dramatically misfired and crashed into the ocean yards from a British nuclear submarine there was only one journalist who delivered the scoop. It was the same journalist who made history as the first Fleet Street reporter to file a dispatch from occupied Russia since William Howard Russell covered th...
Lucy Osborne and Stephanie Kirchgaessner
The Guardian
Lucy Osborne and Stephanie Kirchgaessner’s work specialising in sexual misconduct has this year exposed serious allegations of wrongdoing against some of the world’s most powerful individuals: Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein and David Copperfield. Their commitment to developing relationships with dozens of victims over many years and the...
Patrick Strudwick
The i Paper
Patrick Strudwick is responsible for the second wave of allegations against Kevin Spacey. His seven-year investigation into the Hollywood actor led to the first of these exclusives and forms one of three investigative long-reads in his entry, all within the specialism of social affairs. In 2017, before the story first broke in the U...
Samantha Booth
Schools Week
During the past four years, Samantha used her specialist investigative skills to uncover scandals and lead vital public interest journalism about the system for the country’s most vulnerable children. Here’s three examples from the past year: How private equity makes millions from SEND system The SEND system is bankrupt. Parents mu...
Tom Wilson
Financial TImes
Senior energy correspondent Tom Wilson’s five month investigation into the acquisition of a fleet of ageing oil tankers was a masterpiece of specialist journalism that lifted the veil of secrecy cloaking Russia’s shadow fleet for the first time. Since western restrictions on Russian oil exports were introduced in response to its invasi...
Tristan Kirk
Evening Standard
Court Correspondent Tristan Kirk’s work over the last year has forced the injustices and harsh realities of the Single Justice Procedure on to the national agenda and pressuring ministers into change. The SJP system – a fast-track courts process that operates behind-closed-doors – has existed in the shadows for years, with millions of...
Sports Photographer of the Year
Andy Hooper
Mail Sport
Andy Hooper is The Daily Mail’s chief sports photographer, he has covered seven Olympic games, five football World Cups and countless other sports over the last 30 years at The Daily Mail. In 2024 Andy covered, Wimbledon, The Paris Olympics,The Grand National, FA Cup Final, The Premier League, Rugby Tests and all other major sports ...
Kevin Quigley
Mail Sport
Kevin Quigley is The Daily Mail’s sports content producer, he has covered events such as the Olympic games, World Cups and countless other sports over the last 14 years at The Daily Mail. In 2024 Andy covered, The football European Championships, two world title boxing fights ,Cheltenham, FA Cup Final, The Premier League, Rugby Tes...
Marc Aspland
The Times and The Sunday Times
Marc's three images collectively capture the full spectrum of sporting life. From an early chilly morning on the River Ouse to sporting achievement with an Olympic gold medal for one of Team GB's brightest hopes ahead of the summer Olympics in Paris and finished with the warm glow of the setting sun during a Paralympics event with one ...
Mike Egerton
PA MEDIA
Mike’s photography career spans 3 decades and he has covered 6 Olympic Games and 4 Football World Cups along with many other top sporting events. His first image captures the grace and beauty of USA gymnast Simone Biles ‘floating’ between the uneven bars as she becomes the most decorated gymnast in history. Second image is the momen...
Tom Jenkins
The Guardian
Images taken by Tom Jenkins cover a wide spectrum, all done extremely well - from the key action points at an event, to scenic shots as well as newsworthy and emotionally impactful images. At the 2024 Euro finals, after the nation’s hopes of the men’s team winning their first title in 58 years were dashed, England captain Harry Kane sp...
Cartoonist of the Year
Ben Jennings
The Guardian
The first example in response to Rishi Sunak’s government’s draconian crime bill that included legislation to criminalise homelessness, giving police powers to fine or move on rough sleepers deemed to be causing a nuisance. Such nuisances included ‘excessive smells’. It seemed like the actions of a government completely out of ideas an...
Dave Brown
The Independent
The Independent’s Dave Brown is a master craftsman of the old school, an accomplished political satirist who draws and paints every cartoon by hand. Dave provides The Independent with straightforward cartoons during the week. At weekends, he turns his very skilled hand to a pastiche in his Rogues’ Gallery series, expertly weaving worl...
Jonathan Pugh
Daily Mail
Pugh is a phenomenon. Every day in the Mail, he produces three [ or sometimes four ] pocket cartoons -- each one a masterpiece of gentle absurdity, finding life-enhancing humour in even the dreariest day's news. No other national newspaper boasts a cartoonist so prolifically and consistently funny. From the moment he joined the Mail...
Matt
The Telegraph
There is a reason that the Today programme regularly highlights the daily cartoon by the Telegraph’s Matt - he is just so funny.Whatever the subject and the mood of the nation, Matt makes you smile.He has this incredible gift of spotting the absurdities of life, whatever the subject.It might be the Post Office scandal, over-crowded pri...
Morten Morland
The Times and The Sunday Times
Morten Morland is one of Britain's leading political cartoonists. His drawings for the Times and Sunday Times combine sharp gag writing, great visual wit and a breathtaking level draughtsmanship more typically associated with academic fine art
Peter Brookes
The Times
Peter Brookes has responded to another year of political turbulence with his usual wit and brilliance. His jokes are always funny but it is his draughtsmanship and skill with the paintbrush that make his cartoons memorable works of art. In May he responded to the unveiling of a new portrait of King Charles by Jonathan Yeo. Most people...
Stephen Collins
The Guardian
Stephen Collins has been producing consistently brilliant commentary on life, politics and everything else for the Guardian since 2011. His work appears weekly in the Guardian's Saturday magazine and typically takes the form of a strip. He expertly pushes the format of the traditional newspaper comic into something more like an illustr...
Tabloid Columnist of the Year
Andrew Neil
The Daily Mail, MailPlus and MailOnline
Andrew Neil’s uncompromising takes on the big issues of the day have made his Daily Mail column required reading. From the upheavals at Westminster to the geopolitical crises threatening his readers’ everyday lives, his laser-like focus is shown in three columns that exemplify his determination to speak truth to power. At the beginning...
Bryony Gordon
The Daily Mail
When Bryony Gordon – a mental health champion who talks openly about alcoholism, addiction and running in her underwear - joined the Mail as a columnist in June, many were surprised. By her own admission, Bryony was an unlikely fit. Yet to her critics she said: ‘Damn right I’m taking up the opportunity to sprinkle my mental health magi...
Darren Lewis
The Mirror
Over the past year Darren Lewis has written consistently about his concerns around the language used by political figures and the oxygen of publicity that rhetoric has been afforded. He takes no satisfaction from seeing his warnings have been vindicated by the outburst of racist violence witnessed in August. His column on June 18 th...
Jenni Murray
The Daily Mail
If ever there was a year where Dame Jenni Murray deserves an accolade for her Femail Magazine column, it’s this one. One of Fleet Street’s oldest weekly columnists at 74, she has turned what, for her, has been an annus horribilis healthwise, into punchy, opiniated, powerful copy that really challenged Mail readers’ views. Jenni’s catal...
Tom Utley
The Daily Mail, MailPlus and MailOnline
Every Friday, veteran Mail columnist Tom Utley entertains readers with his perceptive and sometimes hilariously grumpy takes on the issues of the day, often seen through the lens of his own life. November 2023 found him explaining how, shortly after the Brexit referendum of 2016, his enjoyment of a pint at his favourite pub was interru...
Business and Finance Journalist of the Year
Danny Fortson
The Sunday Times
One of the biggest business stories in the world this year was the stunning tragedy of Britsh tech tycoon Mike Lynch. After twelve years fighting allegations that he had orchestrated a massive financial fraud at what was once Britain’s biggest tech company, Autonomy, he finally went to trial in a federal court in San Francisco. If th...
Duncan Robinson
The Economist
While writing The Economist’s Bagehot column, Duncan Robinson has focused on the political-economy of Britain, exploring the peculiar politics of tax and changing demographics, and how the future of the British economy is to be found in King's Cross. In “British voters care less about tax rises than politicians think”, Robinson warned...
Ed Conway
Sky News
More than two years after Putin invaded Ukraine, the war grinds on and despite wave after wave of targeted sanctions, Russia’s economy is growing and banned goods continue to flow into the country. Sky’s Economics and data editor has spent the last year trying to find out how. UK and EU trade sanctions prohibit the export of sensitiv...
Harry Wallop
Freelance
Harry Wallop is a freelance feature writer, specialising in consumer and business trends, working mostly for the Times, Daily Mail and Sunday Times; he is also a columnist for the business pages of The Times. His features are often fascinating deep-dives into different industries or brands, full of well-researched data while never bein...
Szu Ping Chan
Telegraph
Szu Ping Chan’s agenda-setting scoop that Chancellor Rachel Reeves was preparing to reveal a multi-billion pound blackhole in the public finances just weeks after taking office led the national news for days and forced the Government to respond. The Labour Party was caught on the back foot and ended up having to prematurely confirm ...
The Guardian and The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ)
The Guardian
These stories uncovered how Roman Abramovich, a billionaire ally of Vladimir Putin, propelled himself and Chelsea FC to the pinnacle of world football, apparently by using a network of offshore companies to flout the game’s financial rules. They also showed how Abramovich teamed up with football’s most powerful agent to trade naive you...
Tom Burgis
The Guardian
The road to publishing Tom Burgis's long read, "How oligarchs took on the UK fraud squad – and won", began in 2016, with the discovery of a burned out-car in Johannesburg. Inside was the body of a mining industry geologist. The attempts to establish what had befallen him led Burgis to a vast mining deal involving what was, at the time,...
Broadsheet Feature Writer of the Year
David Pilling
Financial Times
The three features, which reflect David Pilling’s broad range of interests, demonstrate his ability to bring complex issues to life through compelling prose and riveting storytelling. Though the datelines - from Kenya, Benin and Chad - are remote, Pilling makes his stories relevant to readers around the world, including in the UK. Set ...
Decca Aitkenhead
The Sunday Times
Smartphones and adolescent mental health have dominated the national headlines and conversation all year, but Decca stole the show with a masterclass in agenda-setting public service journalism. Her experiment gripped readers all over the world, was debated on radio shows from London to New Zealand, and is one of the Sunday Times Magaz...
Fiona Hamilton
The Times
Fiona Hamilton tells the stories of those who can no longer speak for themselves. These are human stories - sensitively handled, meticulously researched and told with flair. They also hold the authorities to account in areas of huge public interest. Hamilton’s insightful and compelling work has revealed shortcomings and failings by tho...
Hannah Barnes
The New Statesman
Hannah Barnes embraces the thorniest topics most other journalists shy away from - always in the public interest. The first feature delicately combines deeply personal, first-hand reporting, with thoroughly researched analysis and data. The product is a compelling read that helped shift the national debate on birth trauma. This is a ...
Henry Mance
Financial Times
Henry Mance’s deeply-researched features cut through the noise on the issues that really mattered. They delivered authoritative narratives that readers wanted to spend time with and to keep discussing afterwards. Mance’s magazine article on GB News gave an unprecedented view into Britain’s upstart news channel. Mance negotiated access...
Jenny Kleeman
The Guardian
Jenny Kleeman writes jaw-dropping, page-turning features that deliver the reader incredible insights into micro-cultures, forgotten stories and human dramas that sometimes seem too bizarre to be real. When she met America's premier pronatalists – a couple aiming to have tons of kids to save the world – she took us into a chilling world...
Sean O'Neill
The Times
Sean O’Neill was The Times’s crime and security editor and then chief reporter before moving to a senior writer role with freedom to write across the title. He contributes to news, arts and comment but his Times magazine features have been his standout work this year. The three pieces chosen to support Sean’s entry reflect the clarity...
Sophie Elmhirst
The Economist's 1843 Magazine
Sophie Elmhirst writes insightful, engaging features for a wide range of publications about the humans behind the headlines. For 1843 magazine, she wrote a piece entitled “The last stand of the call-centre worker”, which explores the human cost of technological change through the often overlooked role of the call-centre worker. Generat...
Zoë Beaty
The Independent
When it comes to exciting young national features journalists, Zoe Beaty is hard to beat. While our industry is now crammed with London-centric writers, Zoe’s background in local reporting from a tough Northern beat means that her work as Special Correspondent for The Independent often tells important stories about the UK that are regu...
Tabloid Feature Writer of the Year
Christopher Stevens
The Daily Mail
With an unfailing ability to pinpoint the details that define a story, combined with a readiness to write about his own deep personal experiences, Christopher Stevens is arguably the most wide-ranging feature writer in British newspapers. Equally confident when writing about politics or the arts, nostalgia or life-changing trauma, he i...
David Jones
The Daily Mail, MailPlus and MailOnline
David Jones has spent decades producing groundbreaking dispatches and exclusives covering everything from tsunamis to presidential elections. His hard-hitting work, uncovering the telling details behind the headlines, is delivered with an elegance of style that moves and informs in equal measure. In June, Jones uncovered the sad detail...
Ian Birrell
Freelance
FEATURE WRITER: IAN BIRRELL Ian has shown his exceptional talent over the past year with a stream of fabulous features that focus on big issues from around the world. His eye for an original tale is combined with rare story-telling ability, elegant writing, fearless reporting and sharp analysis, all underpinned by his unique skill at ...
Matt Roper
Daily Mirror
Senior feature writer Matt Roper is known for his versatility as a writer and ability to connect with readers, as well as his often exhaustive research in the pursuit of a fascinating story. His work ranges from exclusive front-of-the-book investigations to new human angles on current and historical events and moving never-before-to...
Richard Pendlebury
The Daily Mail, MailPlus and MailOnline
Richard Pendlebury sent his first compelling dispatch from Ukraine in the first 24 hours of the conflict and he has reported regularly from there ever since, describing the grim realities of warfare in vivid and often almost poetic detail. ‘Under a different circumstance, this would be the perfect winter’s day for a walk in the woods,’...
Robert Hardman
The Daily Mail, MailPlus and MailOnline
Robert Hardman has been producing razor-sharp reporting and incisive commentary for the Daily Mail since 2001. A royal expert, he has also been part of the BBC commentary team at major state occasions, including the funeral of Queen Elizabeth and the coronation of King Charles. But, at heart, he is a brilliant journalist, whose empathy...
Tom Rawstorne
The Daily Mail
A writing powerhouse, Tom Rawstorne has had a truly tremendous year, with his features among the highlights for Mail and MoS readers. His energy and instinctive feel for what our readers care about are all too evident in these three brilliant pieces which show his brilliant range: disturbing crime specials, exclusive investigations and...
Tabloid Interviewer of the Year
Beth Hale
Daily Mail
The safest of hands, with flair, versatility, and a relentless eye on the news line, Beth Hale would be a truly worthy winner of this year’s Interviewer of the Year. She effortlessly conveys emotional nuance and complexity - as evidenced by the highly impassioned subjects in her trio of entries - with a laser focus on what interests Da...
Charlotte Daly
Mail Sport
With an accomplished sporting background representing England hockey and playing in the Vitality Premier League, Charlotte has an affinity with elite athletes. Her developed expertise and insight have earned her the trust of her interviewees and the respect of her audience.Charlotte has become a central figure within the boxing communi...
Dan Warburton
The Mirror
1) CHRISTINE KEELER'S SON: I'LL CLEAR MUM'S NAMEChristine Keeler's conviction for perjury is one of Britain's most infamous sex scandals which rocked the Tory Government and forced war minister John Profumo to stand down. But for 60 years it has cast a shadow over the life of her son, Seymour Platt, who had to live with the devastating...
Frances Hardy
Daily Mail
Reading a Frances Hardy interview is rather like witnessing a supremely talented orchestral conductor in full flow - at the precisely the right moment, in come the strings of sadness… before, if possible, they are allowed to give way to trumpets of joy. Few writers have the emotional depth and perspicacity Hardy does, with each of her ...
Isaan Khan
Daily Mail
Isaan Khan has had another strong 12 months, which follows 19 award nominations in recent years. His portfolio comprises of three varied sports-focused interviews. They include a revelatory interview with an ex-Team GB runner involved in one of the most controversial moments in Olympics history, a shocking disclosure by the mother o...
Katie Hind
Daily Mail & The Mail on Sunday
Katie Hind has this year proven to be a masterful interviewer, with an array of top showbusiness tell-alls. Her exemplary contacts book proved key in securing the interview that everyone wanted: the first and only sit-down with Strictly professional Giovanni Pernice, after he was accused of bullying his dance partner, the actress Amand...
Rebecca Hardy
Daily Mail
Each and every line of Rebecca Hardy’s interviews is precisely weighted to seize her readers’ emotions. She builds drama with expertise, while excavating deep feelings with a rare tenderness and sensitivity. And her eye for a killer quote is absolutely unsurpassed. Little wonder, then, that her skill makes her one of the industry’s mos...
Tom Bryant
The Mirror
From being groomed by Huw Edwards, to the heartbreaking final moments of Paul O’Grady’s life, there is no journalist as skilled as Tom Bryant in gently coaxing the most extraordinary details from their interviewees. Take Tom’s blistering sit-down with the 17-year-old who was paid £35,000 by Edwards, whose relationship with the newsread...
TEAM AWARDS
Investigation of the Year
Huw Edwards Behind the Cameras
The Sun
The Sun has bravely spent the last 18 months investigating and unravelling the shocking double life of Edwards away from the TV cameras. With more than 100 stories published, our investigation culminated in revealing the BBC's lead presenter for News at Ten had been charged over child abuse videos in July 2024. Our forensic probe in...
MP Uses Campaign Funds to Pay 'Bad People'
The Times
A 3am phone call, ‘bad people’, a political cover-up…and a drunk dog - The Times’s investigation into then-Tory MP Mark Menzies was an instant classic, a compelling piece of reporting which had rapid and lasting consequences in Westminster. The scoop revealed how the MP for Fylde had used £14,000 in funds given by party donors for cam...
Murdered, Tortured or in Hiding From the Taliban: The Special Forces Abandoned by Britain
The Independent and Lighthouse Reports
The investigation into former members of Afghan special forces units known as the ‘Triples’ revealed the shocking failures of the UK government to help those it abandoned to the Taliban. The investigation focused on former members of two units that were set up, trained and funded by the British, yet were denied relocation to the UK – ...
Navy Probes Submarine Sex Pests Scandal
Daily Mail
Inderdeep Bains’ bombshell revelations of misogyny, bullying and sexual harassment aboard Britain’s nuclear submarines sent shockwaves through the armed services. The Royal Navy was forced to launch probe after probe as a queue of whistleblowers trusted Bains with their harrowing and deeply private stories. Last month (October 2024) th...
Sellafield
The Guardian
Sellafield, the world’s largest store of plutonium and one of the most hazardous sites in Europe, rarely breaks into the public consciousness, tucked amid rolling hills in Cumbria. Nuclear Leaks, Guardian’s year-long investigation into security concerns at the site changed that: it forced a spotlight on the site, and revealed major sec...
Spying, hacking and intimidation: Israel’s nine-year ‘war’ on the ICC exposed
The Guardian
The clandestine activities of Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, the Mossad, are closely-guarded secrets. Yet a Guardian investigation revealed a secret operation by the spy agency to sabotage a war crimes investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC). The covert offensive was led by the director of the Mossad, Yossi Cohen...
Ukrainian Children
Financial Times
In a ground-breaking visual investigation, the FT used facial recognition software and public records to identify Ukrainian children that have been abducted and taken to Russia and are now listed on a Russian adoption website. The investigation is the first to reveal that missing Ukrainian children are being given false Russian identit...
Scoop of the Year
AZ to be Sued Over 'Defective' Vaccine
The Telegraph
The Telegraph’s scoop that the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine has been branded "defective" in a multi-million pound landmark legal action was an exclusive that was followed up internationally. The team of reporters obtained documents which showed that a landmark legal action branded the jab “defective” in a test case which paves...
Huw Edwards Charged With Indecent Images
The Sun
Nearly a year since the Sun ran a front-page story saying a BBC presenter had paid thousands of pounds to a 17-year-old with a drug dependency in exchange for explicit pictures, The Sun revealed that Edwards had been charged with indecent images. Following vigiliant and dogged communication with questions to the Met Police for months ...
Netanyahu Turns his Fire on Labour
Daily Mail
Natalie Lisbona and Andy Jehring got the Middle East scoop everyone was chasing this year - an interview with Benjamin Netanyahu. The Israeli PM had been harangued by every media outlet across the world for months but finally agreed to sit down and answer written questions from the Daily Mail in September. It was the first time he had ...
Second Post Office IT Scandal
The i Paper
In January, The i Paper's northern reporter, Steve Robson, uncovered claims that the Post Office had been wrongly prosecuting sub-postmasters for years before the discredited Horizon IT system was first introduced. Eight months on, as a result of his groundbreaking investigation, the Government has confirmed that a second Post Office ...
Sun Reveals Plans for a Smoking Ban
The Sun
On August 29, The Sun revealed Government plans to dramatically extend the existing indoor smoking ban to a raft of outdoor areas, including pub gardens. The front page story blew the lid on one of the most seismic shifts in public policy of modern times. Weeks of fierce debate dominated the public discourse, and eventually triggered a...
Tommy Robinson on Holiday
MailOnline
Our photograph of Tommy Robinson stoking the flames of the post-Southport race riots from the safety of a Cypriot sunbed became one of the defining images of this summer’s disorder. Robinson’s track record of stalking, abusing, and attempting to intimidate the journalists who cover him meant that we embarked upon this story knowing tha...
Waheed Ali
The Sunday Times
Gabriel and Patrick broke the scoop which sparked the first political crisis of Keir Starmer’s administration - and a national conversation about the relationship between money and politics.This was the story that Lord Alli, the prime minister’s biggest personal donor and the man who lavishly paid for his suits and spectacles, had an a...
News Website of the Year
Bloomberg UK
Bloomberg News
2024 brought sweeping changes to the Bloomberg News website, with a redesigned homepage that offers greater clarity and functionality for business-minded readers in the UK and beyond. Improved organisation on our site helps our almost 750,000 subscribers move beyond basic news articles to interact with videos, graphics, podcasts, news...
Financial Times
Over the past year the Financial Times has delivered world-class reporting and analysis, exposing abuses of power and unpacking complex financial and geopolitical stories at a time of global upheaval. The FT’s worldwide network of journalists has provided authoritative coverage at moments of global significance from the ongoing crisis...
Sky News
In a polarised world, Sky News has been steadfast in its mission to be an impartial, trusted news website – with breaking news in our DNA. Our aim is to offer readers, and viewers, across the world the complete multiplatform experience - from the written word to videos and podcasts, on desktops, via the Sky News app or our social med...
The Guardian
The Guardian’s global digital reporting has continued to lead the way in 2024, breaking audience records for everything from the UK election to the Paris Olympics. Our innovative election results tracker saw almost double the page views of 2019, with readers returning frequently throughout the night. In the run-up, political editor Pi...
The i Paper
The i Paper
As Britain’s youngest national newspaper, The i Paper’s website, inews.co.uk, has grown an audience of nought to nine million in less than a decade. This extraordinary growth is based on readers' trust, transparency and public interest journalism - The i Paper's core values. This year, across its homepage, app, newsletters and off...
The Times and The Sunday Times
This year, The Times's goal was to create a joyous experience for readers on a mobile-phone screen and make it easier for them to discover the topics and authors that matter to them. This meant radical change: The Times rebuilt its website homepage, introduced nine new sections and completely rethought how to tell stories for mobile. ...
News Podcast of the Year
Cocaine Inc.
The Times and The Sunday Times
Cocaine Inc. is an international podcast investigation that takes you inside the global cocaine trade, revealing how the drug business works like any legitimate multi-billion dollar corporation. An ambitious and unprecedented co-operation between The Times, The Sunday Times and News Corp Australia, the series reports from ten cities ...
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
Coffee House Shots (CHS) is a unique podcast, aimed at commuters who want a bitesize 15-minute download on the main news from Westminster and beyond. CHS is one of the few podcasts that provides instant political analysis – often meaning multiple podcasts a day, especially during times of political theatre. The intention of CHS is t...
Here's Why
Bloomberg News
'Here's Why' is a weekly guide to understanding the stories that are changing the world. From trade wars to stock market swings, we use the power of Bloomberg's 2,900 journalists and analysts around the world to tell our listeners what's happening, and why it matters. Stephen Carroll hosts short conversations bring essential context t...
Hot Money Season 2: the New Narcos
Financial Times with Pushkin
Hot Money: The New Narcos is a eight-part investigative podcast series that tells a gripping story of international crime in a surprising and innovative way, showing how a new breed of chaos entrepreneur is flourishing in a geopolitical order being shaken by world events. The story came to light due to the murder of a man in the Nether...
The Story
The Times and The Sunday Times
The Story is the flagship daily podcast from The Times and The Sunday Times, hosted by Manveen Rana, Luke Jones and William Hague. We specialise in audio-led original investigations, which we run alongside explainers, eye-witness accounts from people living through history as it happens, and news-making interviews with key figures. ...
The Trial
The Daily Mail
Since its inception in October 2022, The Trial has opened the doors to courtrooms across the UK, providing real-time reporting on significant criminal cases with a focus on accuracy, insight, and public interest. Listened to over 30 million times, the podcast has firmly established itself as a trusted source of information and analysis...
The Weekend Intelligence
The Economist
The Weekend Intelligence is a weekly long-form narrative podcast which explores big themes, intimately. The show blends the best of The Economist - global expertise, brilliant writing, the hivemind of our reporters - with an emphasis on storytelling and a lean-back tone that works for the weekend. Over the year since we first launched ...
Ukraine: The Latest
The Telegraph
Launched at the start of the Russian full-scale invasion in 2022, Ukraine: The Latest is the only remaining UK daily podcast on the full-scale invasion with now 100 million downloads and more than 650 episodes. We combine battlefield updates with long form interviews with leading Ukrainian politicians, historians and other cultural e...
Best Audience Engagement Initiative of the Year
Democracy 2024
Financial Times
2024 was a year of elections: more than half the world’s adults could vote. To mark this, the FT embarked on an ambitious project featuring 4 exclusive films, a social media campaign, live events and a published book. We commissioned female writers from around the world – including Margaret Atwood from Canada, Lola Shoneyin from Nigeri...
First Edition Newsletter
The Guardian
First Edition, the Guardian’s daily briefing, launched in April 2022 and has since grown to an audience base of nearly 250,000 subscribers. The newsletter, which lands in inboxes by 7am every weekday, guides its dedicated readership through the day’s news agenda to help them make sense of the world around us. In accessible, informativ...
Frontline
MailOnline
From the sound a Russian bullet makes as it zips over your head to how an FPV drone operator keeps his fingers warm in sub-zero temperatures – Daily Mail reporters Richard Pendlebury and Jamie Wiseman have captured it all on video. And they have turned it into the hugely successful YouTube series 'Frontline', attracting 10.6million+ v...
Pension Power-up
Times Money Mentor
Times Money Mentor launched Pension Power-up (PPU) as a 4-week multi-media and newsletter campaign in September 2024. With a pension savings crisis in the UK, the aim was to help people supercharge their retirement savings and reach those not engaged at all with their pensions. Currently, 74% of us are not saving enough to maintain our...
Reclaim Your Brain Newsletter
The Guardian
Reclaim Your Brain is a Guardian newsletter for anyone who wants to waste less time on their phone. After launching in January, it quickly became the fastest growing newsletter the Guardian has ever created, and ended up cutting its subscribers screen times by an average of 40%. Co-written by Catherine Price, the bestselling author of ...
Times Live App
The Times and The Sunday Times
This year, The Times has rebuilt its flagship Times Live mobile app with the aim of deepening engagement among the title’s 600,000 digital subscribers. Our ability to retain a paying reader increases by 50% if a reader uses the Times Live mobile app regularly, so reader engagement on the app is critical to the future of our business. T...
Broadsheet Front Page of the Year
End This Bloody Disgrace
The Sunday Times
“End this bloody disgrace” was a front page that put the infected blood scandal at the heart of the national conversation, won backing across the Commons and ultimately helped secure the promise of more than £10bn in compensation for victims. It was, quite simply, a world changing front page.The campaign was led by political editor, Ca...
Everyone Failed Them
The i Paper
The best front pages have the power to grab you and demand your attention. And that’s exactly what this one about the Grenfell fire tragedy manages to achieve. This poster front page tells the story simply, using just three words and 72 images. ‘Everyone failed them’. It strips back the complexity of the 1,700-page inquiry...
Middle East Erupts
The Times
When Israel’s Iron Dome defence system was bombarded with Iranian missiles one day in early October, the world held its breath. Around 180 Tehran-ordered missiles and Israeli interceptor rockets, fired to bring down as much of Iran’s deadly payload as possible, lit up the night sky. Across the globe there were calls for calm as preside...
Sunak Gambles on Snap Poll, Things Can Only Get Wetter
The Telegraph
Rishi Sunak's disastrous early election gamble, announced in the pouring rain outside No 10 on May 22, set the tone for the election campaign. Every newspaper used the image of a soaked PM struggling to be heard above the noise of the protester playing Things Can Only Get Better at the end of Downing Street. But no publication delivere...
Tabloid Front Page of the Year
Bring Them Home
The Sun
Following the 7/10 Terror Attacks The Sun's powerful front page called for safe return of the 32 child hostages taken by Hamas and was heralded around the world. The front page was clear and concise with the headline "BRING THEM HOME" against the backdrop of images of every child hostage. Many readers wrote to us expressing their passi...
Donald Trump is Shot at Rally
Mail on Sunday
The call to the news desk from our U.S. Editor Caroline Graham coincided to the second with the first snap on PA: shots had been fired at Donald Trump during an election rally in Pennsylvania. It was about 11.15pm, just 75 minutes before the absolutely non-negotiable 12.30am off stone deadline for the final edition. As the first pictur...
GUILTY
The Sun
This year, The Sun broke the shocking story that BBC anchor Huw Edwards had been charged with making indecent images, with the Met and CPS finally confirming the news after months of questioning by Sun reporters. The next day’s front page, featuring a striking photo of the shamed newsreader in sunglasses outside court, carried the sim...
Little Boy in the Pudsey Pyjamas… Left to Starve to Death in Britain
The Sun
Our front page revealing that toddler Bronson Battersby was allowed to ‘starve’ to death in modern-day Britain was as shocking as it was heartbreaking.The headline “Little Boy in the Pudsey pyjamas… left to starve to death in Britain” used next to heartbreaking images of Bronson in his Pudsey Bear pyjamas were sourced by the team for t...
Stoking Race Riots From His Sunbed
Daily Mail
While England rioted, Mail reporters tracked down Tommy Robinson tweeting from his sun lounger at a luxury Cyprus hotel. His response? Turning his thugs on our staff. In the face of outrageous threats and harassment, the Mail fearlessly splashed the story on the front page, exposing Robinson’s hypocrisy and the menace of the far-right.
Supplement of the Year
Femail
Daily Mail
At Femail Magazine we know our audience inside out – and stop at nothing to serve them our irresistible trademark mix of glamour, real life and agenda-setting journalism. Our writers start the conversations you want to share on your WhatsApp group. Clare Foges worked out why the other school mums don’t like her; mother and daughter Les...
FT Magazine
Financial Times
Over the past year, FT Weekend Magazine has enjoyed a surge of new readers, strengthened its bottom line and earned wide acclaim – kicked off by winning Supplement of the Year at the 2023 Press Awards. Determined not to rest on its laurels, our team focused on continuing to improve the breadth of what we offer, the creativity of our pa...
Saturday Magazine
The Guardian
In the three years since its launch, SATURDAY magazine has established itself as a beautiful, fun, must-read newspaper supplement delivering the very best features, long reads, interviews and photography every weekend. Guardian readers want to be challenged, amused and entertained, and we give them all that and more. We make sure eve...
The Sunday Times Magazine
The Sunday Times
None of the three cover stories we have entered for the awards are interviews with Hollywood film stars or pop idols (though we did those at other times). But two of them are interviews that went round the world. The tech businessman Mike Lynch insisted that the only person he wanted to interview him after being freed from house arrest...
The Times Magazine
The Times
Compelling, smart, stylish (and a little bit playful) - The Times Magazine stands out from the rest week in week out. Our readers trust us to offer originality, expertise and balance when grappling with the big issues, as well as first class celebrity interviews, brilliant writing from our columnists and a healthy dose of humour. All ...
YOU
The Mail on Sunday
Do you guys ever think about dying? Not your average magazine cover line. YOU is not your average newspaper supplement. This was 28th April 2024 when, using the famous quote from Barbie, we produced a Death Issue. Inside, some our finest journalists - Lynn Barber, Julie Burchill, David Aaronovitch among them - shared their thoughts o...
Campaign of the Year
Bloody Disgrace
Sunday Times
Caroline first began reporting on the contaminated blood scandal as a 21-year-old trainee reporter in Birmingham in 2001. Her first brush with the story came when she answered a “ring in” from Mick Mason, a 34-year-old haemophiliac, who had been infected with hepatitis B and C and HIV after receiving blood products via the NHS. As if t...
Formula For Change
Metro
Last year, Metro joined forces with family support charity Feed to launch Formula For Change, a hard hitting and crucial campaign calling on the UK government to review infant formula legislation. Our mission was simple: to increase access to first stage formula for families in need and for the government to allow retailers to accept...
Justice For Our Daughters Campaign
Daily Mirror
The Daily Mirror’s Justice For Our Daughters campaign was launched in February of this year, calling for tougher sentences for domestic killers. Every three days in Britain a woman is killed by a man, and more often than not this happens inside the home. In most circumstances, if an abuser murders a partner or family member inside...
Killed Women Count
The Guardian
A woman is killed by a man every three days in the UK, yet most of their stories go unheard. The Guardian’s campaign Killed Women Count - a project highlighting the toll and tragedy of violence against women in the UK - wants to help change that. Killed Women Count started with a conversation at the Guardian about how rarely cases i...
M.E. Awareness and Reform
The Times
The Times has been reporting on the issue of myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) for a number of years - detailing the stigma faced by sufferers of this misunderstood disease. Then in October 2021 Maeve Boothby O’Neill, the daughter of senior writer Sean O’Neill, died aged 27. She had suffered with ME since her teens and it became acute in...
Save Britain's Rivers
The i Paper
As Britain’s youngest national newspaper, The i Paper has a uniquely fearless approach, and its campaign to stop rivers from being polluted by sewage will change the law. For the past year, our Save Britain’s Rivers campaign has drawn cross-party support, backing from all major conservation charities and resulted in genuine policy ch...
Unpaid Carers
The Guardian
The sequence of (ongoing) investigations, case studies and analyses that make up the Guardian’s Carer’s Allowance Scandal campaign illuminate the dark heart of the UK’s creaking welfare state: how hundreds of thousands of vulnerable unpaid carers saw their lives turned upside down and ruined by a combination of bureaucratic incompetenc...
Excellence in Diversity Award
A Commitment To Diversity And Inclusion
Bloomberg News
At Bloomberg, diversity and inclusion are central to our success. From extensive reporting to benchmarking our efforts at inclusivity and representation, we consistently strive to walk the talk. PRINT REPORTING Bloomberg Equality reports on racial, gender, economic and other inequalities across companies, institutions and politics, a...
Financial Times
We believe a diversity of perspectives enhances our journalism, enabling us to meet subscriber expectations for accurate reporting. We are dedicated to a diverse and equitable newsroom. Under the leadership of our Editor, Roula Khalaf, this ethos shapes our internal culture, informs our engagement with readers, and amplifies the public...
If Year 9 were in Number 10
The Mirror
As the starting gun for the 2024 general election was fired, the Mirror’s Ros Wynne-Jones, Claire Donnelly, Maryam Qaiser and photographer Philip Coburn travelled the four nations of the UK for a new truly multimedia election project ‘If Year 9 were in Number 10’. The idea was to see the election from the vantage-point of working c...
The Media Literacy Programme
The Telegraph
The Telegraph’s Media Literacy Programme was started four years ago to help introduce the world of trusted news journalism to teenagers from diverse backgrounds. The target was attracting 16 to 18 -year-olds who traditionally don't get a chance to obtain work experience or find out how the news business works. Without being exclus...
Best Commercial Partner
To be announced at the awards ceremony
ORGANISATIONS AWARD
Daily Newspaper of the Year
Daily Express
Campaigns have always been the lifeblood of the Daily Express. Indeed the paper’s founder Sir Arthur Pearson was a heroic advocate of greater support for military veterans blinded in conflict. Today that tradition continues under Gary Jones, whose editorship since 2018 has made the Express a powerful voice that seeks to challenge injus...
Daily Mail
In a year of unprecedented tumult, nobody could touch the Mail for quality and impact in 2024. Hard-hitting investigations, agenda-setting exclusives, fearless on-the-ground reporting, and award-winning commentary were mixed with brilliant features, bombshell interviews, and joyful sections to give readers an unbeatable package. How do...
The Daily Telegraph
The Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph has again demonstrated its unmatched ability to adapt to an evolving media landscape in the past year, consistently setting the agenda and delivering trusted journalism that resonates across platforms. By integrating the best elements of our website - such as engaging visuals and graphics - into the newspaper, the...
The Guardian
Last year, the Guardian combined the biggest exclusives, the sharpest commentary and innovations that proved editorially and commercially successful. Domestically, the general election dominated the agenda – and the ‘scoop’ of the campaign came from political editor, Pippa Crerar, who revealed Rishi Sunak’s parliamentary aide bet on th...
The i Paper
The i Paper
As Britain’s youngest national newspaper, The i Paper has grown an audience of nought to nine million in barely a decade. This extraordinary growth has been based on trust, transparency and public interest journalism. This year The i Paper’s newsroom has delivered genuine policy change that will help protect Britain’s rivers from sewag...
The Mirror
In the last 12 months the Mirror has placed itself at the heart of the national conversation with its exclusive stories, campaigns and agenda-setting reporting. Whether in print, online or through its social media channels the Mirror stands out from the field for its fusion of hard news, investigations, showbiz and features - all unde...
The Sun
This year, The Sun has led the way in breaking exclusive stories, leading national conversation and championing reader's rights. Sun journalism has served readers stories in the public interest bringing to light new information holding public bodies and authorities to account more than any other brand.2024 saw the culmination of a 18 m...
The Times
The Times believes that both eyewitness reporting and exclusive, public-interest investigations are crucial to the future of the media – and our success as a subscription-funded news organisation. It’s no coincidence we have invested so much in both. In March, The Times head of investigations Paul Morgan-Bentley exposed the shocking s...
Sunday Newspaper of the Year
iWeekend
The i Paper
iweekend, the weekend edition of The i Paper, continues to excel as the best-performing national newspaper on the UK newsstand for the third consecutive year, despite being only seven years old. It also recorded the lowest year-on-year decline of any title for the 12 months to November 2024. Average sales fell by just 3%, resulti...
The Mail on Sunday
Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday
The greatest accolade for any newspaper is the love and respect of its readers. Proof of this for The Mail on Sunday is our trusted position as Britain’s best-selling Sunday newspaper. Each week, the paper sells more copies than the Sunday Mirror, Sunday Telegraph, Observer, People and Sunday Express combined! Exclusive news stories, ...
The Observer
The Observer has thrived as the unique voice of liberal and progressive values on the Sunday news stands. The paper served as a crucial source of analysis and discussion of the Labour Party of Keir Starmer as it readied itself for the July election. Its perspective on the crucial political and social currents of the day - from the cr...
The Sun on Sunday
The Sun
The Sun on Sunday has led the way on reporting revelatory, properly considered and fearless stories in the Sunday market. They have broken many exclusive big stories that have led to national conversation and prompted replies and change in high up authorities and corporations, including the BBC Director General issuing an apology and...
The Sunday Telegraph
The 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 pape...
The Sunday Times
Sunday Times
Journalism that made a difference. That phrase sums up the impact of The Sunday Times. And it was arguably encapsulated by one campaign: End This Bloody Disgrace, which helped win a promised £10 billion-plus in compensation for victims of infected blood, the biggest scandal in NHS history. Led by Political Editor Caroline Wheeler, t...