INDIVIDUAL AWARDS
Young Journalist of the Year
Sabrina Miller
Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday
“The wig is knotted and ill-fitting. The calf-length black skirt is rather frumpy – and the less said about what’s been stuffed down the front of the green polo shirt, the better.” The levity of the opening paragraph belies the poignancy of Sabrina Miller’s interviews with Ukrainian men desperately trying to dodge the draft in a countr...
Sarah Aziz
Freelance
Aadam Patel
Mail Sport
Daisy Graham-Brown
Mail on Sunday
Katie Tarrant
The Sunday Times
Meike Leonard
Mail on Sunday
Simar Bajaj
Freelance
Health Journalist of the Year
Rebecca Thomas
The Independent
They make grim reading, but someone has to tell the stories Rebecca Thomas tells. The headlines say it all: ‘Mental health patients ‘raped and sexually assaulted’ as NHS abuse scandal revealed’; ‘Nicholas’s story: ‘I’ve been locked up for 10 years because I’m autistic. Is a chance at life too much to ask?’’, and ‘Revealed: NHS regulato...
Shaun Lintern
The Sunday Times
Eleanor Hayward
The Times
Ethan Ennals
Mail on Sunday
Jennifer Rigby
Reuters
Laura Donnelly
The Telegraph
Sarah Neville
Financial Times
Photographer of the Year
James Glossop
The Times and The Sunday Times
James Glossop was among the first on the scene when riots broke out following the murder of three girls at a summer dance club in Southport. His shot of two grim-faced policemen, holding riot shields, helping an injured colleague past a flaming vehicle, was a defining image of the shocking events.In contrast is the unsettling shot of a...
Phil Noble
Reuters
Richard Pohle
The Times and The Sunday Times
Simon Townsley
The Telegraph
Stefan Rousseau
The Press Association
News Reporter of the Year
Gabriel Pogrund
The Sunday Times
Gabriel Pogrund secured the scoops that sparked the first political crisis of Sir Keir Starmer’s administration – that he faced an investigation after failing to disclose that Labour peer and donor Lord Alli covered the cost of a personal shopper, clothes and alterations for his wife, and that Alli had a government pass. The stories do...
Robert Mendick
The Telegraph
Emine Sinmaz
The Guardian
Jacob Dirnhuber
MailOnline
Paul Morgan-Bentley
The Times
Sabah Choudhry
Sky News
Shanti Das
The Observer
Critic of the Year
Jay Rayner
The Observer Magazine
“Dappled pools of olive oil so virgin it has never even had an indecent thought,” and “roast potatoes … dark on account of having been shown a very good time by [the] raucous spice collection.” Rayner’s food writing is not just evocative, sensuous and witty, but is often shot through with bigger themes and fascinating personal tales – ...
Waldemar Januzczak
The Sunday Times
Camilla Long
The Sunday Times
Deborah Ross
Mail on Sunday
Giles Coren
The Times
Neil McCormick
The Telegraph
Broadsheet Interviewer of the Year
Decca Aitkenhead
The Sunday Times
Reading Decca Aitkenhead’s interviews, you feel as though you are in the room with her and her subject. She establishes an immediate rapport, even with the trickiest of interviewees, and her mix of empathy and challenge elicits secrets, indiscretions and heartbreaking admissions.In revealing cyclist Sir Chris Hoy’s terminal cancer diag...
Charlotte Edwardes
The Guardian
Eva Wiseman
The Observer Magazine
Josh Glancy
The Sunday Times
Simon Hattenstone
The Guardian
Tim Adams
The Observer
Science and Technology Journalist of the Year
Madhumita Murgia
Financial Times
Murgia makes complex AI issues accessible through very human stories – as her investigation into the use of predictive algorithms to determine who receives organ transplants exemplifies. Combining expert analysis with compassion and sensitivity, she delves into the life of cystic fibrosis sufferer Sarah Meredith, who is being denied a ...
Ben Spencer
The Sunday Times
Kaya Burgess
The Times
Madeleine Cuff
New Scientist
Robin McKie
The Observer
Tom Whipple
The Times
Showbiz Reporter of the Year
Clemmie Moodie
The Sun
Clemmie Moodie broke a string of showbusiness exclusives, from the departure of ‘Strictly’ professional Giovanni Pernice amid bullying allegations, to the BBC’s sacking of golden boy Jermaine Jenas after inappropriate texts, to the planned departure of Gary Lineker as ‘Match of the Day’ host. Three of her stories led the BBC 10 o’clock...
Jonathan Dean
The Times and The Sunday Times
Alison Boshoff
Daily Mail
Ellie Henman
The Sun
Katie Hind
Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday
Lucy Osborne and Stephanie Kirchgaessner
The Guardian
Foreign Reporter of the Year
Arkady Ostrovsky
The Economist's 1843 Magazine
Arkady Ostrovsky’s deep inside knowledge of Russia, its history, culture, literature and psychology, combined with his ability to cultivate sources on both sides of the border, makes not just for a rich insight into Russia and its people, but creates human stories so vivid and gripping that, were they played out on the big screen, woul...
Maggie Michael
Reuters
Catherine Philp
The Times
Christina Lamb
The Sunday Times
Shaun Walker
The Guardian
Wendell Steavenson
The Economist's 1843 Magazine
Political Journalist of the Year
Gabriel Pogrund
The Sunday Times
Political hypocrisy is the gift that keeps on giving, and Gabriel Pogrund has worked hard to ensure he is the recipient. His revelations about Labour donor Lord Alli’s access-all-areas pass to Downing Street and Keir Starmer’s failure to declare clothes the millionaire had bought for Lady Starmer, were quickly followed by other disclos...
Billy Kenber
The Times
Caroline Wheeler
The Sunday Times
Glen Owen
Mail on Sunday
Pippa Crerar
The Guardian
Steven Swinford
The Times
Tim Shipman
The Sunday Times
Environment Journalist of the Year
Laura Hughes
Financial Times
Laura Hughes’s investigation into the thousands of old metal mines across the UK that continue to leech poisonous lead into waterways and soil before being consumed by animals and seeping into the food chain, is replete with shocking facts. For example, even low exposure to lead can endanger humans (increasing the risk of miscarriage, ...
Damien Carrington
The Guardian
Helena Horton
The Guardian
Karl Mathiesen
POLITICO
Lucie Heath
The i Paper
Simon Evans
Carbon Brief
Steph Spyro
Daily Express
Travel Journalist of the Year
Ruaridh Nicoll
Freelance
Ruaridh Nicoll’s delight in finding far-flung places populated with interesting and endangered species (including humans) shines through his writing. The Cocos Islands, for example, “are home to an army of land crabs, an endangered population of lugubrious geckos and 593 idiosyncratic people” who fight over fresh salad delivered by the...
David Pilling
Financial Times
Chris Leadbeater
The Telegraph
Duncan Craig
Freelance
Greg Dickinson
The Telegraph
Kevin Rushby
The Guardian
Sarah Turner
Freelance
Simon Usborne
Financial Times
Data Journalist of the Year
George Greenwood
The Times
George Greenwood’s data-driven reporting had a major impact last year, leading to police investigations expected to recover millions of pounds from the proceeds of crime, and changes in government policy to prevent food companies undermining health measures. He also won major transparency victories in the courts.Using a copy of Dubai’s...
Ben Butcher
The Telegraph
Annie Gouk
The Mirror
Tom Calver
The Times and The Sunday Times
The Hugh Mcilvanney Award for Sports Journalist of the Year
Daniel Taylor
The Athletic
Daniel Taylor’s investigation into the suicide of Sheffield United women’s player Maddy Cusack was based on winning her family’s trust, sourcing a seven-page complaint by her father about how coach Jonathan Morgan treated her, and conversations with friends and team-mates that built a picture of her as a person and player. He ultimatel...
Ian Herbert
Mail Sport
David Walsh
The Sunday Times
Jeremy Wilson
The Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph
Martin Samuel
The Times and The Sunday Times
Oliver Brown
The Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph
Oliver Holt
Mail Sport
Broadsheet Columnist of the Year
Marina Hyde
The Guardian
Always perceptive, often hilarious and never afraid to call out injustice, Marina Hyde’s ability to make serious points while simultaneously provoking laughter, is second to none. During last year’s election campaign she cast her gimlet eye across the political spectrum as she filed daily comment pieces from around the country, culmina...
Kate Lister
The i Paper
Alan Rusbridger
The Independent
Camilla Long
The Sunday Times
Daniel Finkelstein
The Times
Kenan Malik
The Observer
Melanie Reid
The Times
Nesrine Malik
The Guardian
Sonia Sodha
The Observer
Specialist Journalist of the Year
Samantha Booth
Schools Week
As part of Samantha Booth’s ongoing investigation into the broken Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) sector, she used FOI requests to reveal that while parents often have to fight in court to get support from cash-strapped councils for their children, private companies – several of them private equity firms, some registe...
David Woode
The Times
Danielle Sheridan
The Telegraph
Jerome Starkey
The Sun
Lucy Osborne and Stephanie Kirchgaessner
The Guardian
Patrick Strudwick
The i Paper
Tom Wilson
Financial TImes
Tristan Kirk
Evening Standard
Sports Photographer of the Year
Marc Aspland
The Times and The Sunday Times
Marc Aspland captures the fulfilment of a dream with his shot of British sprinter Keely Hodgkinson, trademark blonde ponytail flying, crossing the finish line to win gold in front of a packed stadium at the Paris Olympics.By contrast, a photo of the Cambridge University men’s boat crew during bitterly cold early-morning training on the...
Mike Egerton
PA Media
Andy Hooper
Mail Sport
Kevin Quigley
Mail Sport
Tom Jenkins
The Guardian
Cartoonist of the Year
Morten Morland
The Times and The Sunday Times
Uncle Sam lies on the psychiatrist’s couch, red-eyed and angry at the state of his nation, oblivious to the fact that his therapist has jumped out of the high window of the consulting room, smashing the glass on their way. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Chancellor Rachel Reeves hang a picture of Munch’s The Scream, the icon of human a...
Matt Pritchett
The Telegraph
Ben Jennings
The Guardian
Dave Brown
The Independent
Jonathan Pugh
Daily Mail
Peter Brookes
The Times
Stephen Collins
The Guardian
Tabloid Columnist of the Year
Bryony Gordon
Daily Mail
“My name is Bryony, and I’m an alcoholic.” What a way to launch a new column – aptly named ‘Sharing the things that make me feel bad about myself, so you’ll feel better.’ Gordon is also “a reformed drug addict, a recovering bulimic with a history of binge eating chorizo, a life-long depressive who frequently takes her iron and hair str...
Andrew Neil
Daily Mail, MailPlus and MailOnline
Darren Lewis
The Mirror
Jenni Murray
Daily Mail
Tom Utley
Daily Mail, MailPlus and MailOnline
Business and Finance Journalist of the Year
Danny Fortson
The Sunday Times
It’s hard to avoid the epithet ‘Shakespearean’ when reading about the dramatic final years of British tech tycoon Mike Lynch’s life. The Bard in this case is Danny Forston, the west coast correspondent for the Sunday Times, whose sustained and in-depth coverage of what was arguably the biggest business story of 2024 afforded him unprec...
Harry Wallop
Freelance
Duncan Robinson
The Economist
Ed Conway
Sky News
Szu Ping Chan
The Telegraph
The Guardian and The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
The Guardian
Tom Burgis
The Guardian
Broadsheet Feature Writer of the Year
Henry Mance
Financial Times
Henry Mance tackles subjects as diverse as the funding crisis in English opera, the environmental impact of cruise ships, the dire state of the UK’s criminal justice system, AI scepticism – and life behind the scenes at new broadcasting pretender GB News, which, in Mance’s telling, has more of Drop the Dead Donkey than All the Presiden...
Jenny Kleeman
The Guardian
David Pilling
Financial Times
Decca Aitkenhead
The Sunday Times
Fiona Hamilton
The Times
Hannah Barnes
The New Statesman
Sean O'Neill
The Times
Sophie Elmhirst
The Economist's 1843 Magazine and The Guardian
Zoë Beaty
The Independent
Tabloid Feature Writer of the Year
Ian Birrell
Freelance
From the fentanyl epidemic devastating Canada’s youth, to Denmark’s secret campaign of forced sterilisation of women in Greenland (‘genocide’, according to a Greenland MP), to the all-too-human problems dogging Ukraine’s efforts to repel Russia’s advances, Ian Birrell tells original, important and shocking tales that expose or throw ne...
Ian Birrell
Freelance
From the fentanyl epidemic devastating Canada’s youth, to Denmark’s secret campaign of forced sterilisation of women in Greenland (‘genocide’, according to a Greenland MP), to the all-too-human problems dogging Ukraine’s efforts to repel Russia’s advances, Ian Birrell tells original, important and shocking tales that expose or throw ne...
Matt Roper
The Mirror
Christopher Stevens
Daily Mail
David Jones
Daily Mail, MailPlus and MailOnline
Richard Pendlebury
Daily Mail, MailPlus and MailOnline
Robert Hardman
Daily Mail, MailPlus and MailOnline
Tom Rawstorne
Daily Mail
Tabloid Interviewer of the Year
Katie Hind
Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday
Katie Hind, the mistress of top showbusiness tell-alls, secured the interview that everyone wanted – an exclusive sit-down with Strictly professional Giovanni Pernice after he was accused of bullying his dance partner, actress Amanda Abbington. Pernice revealed the toll the scandal, which threatened to topple both his own career and th...
Beth Hale
Daily Mail
Charlotte Daly
Mail Sport
Dan Warburton
The Mirror
Frances Hardy
Daily Mail
Isaan Khan
Daily Mail
Rebecca Hardy
Daily Mail
Tom Bryant
The Mirror
TEAM AWARDS
Investigation of the Year
Spying, Hacking and Intimidation: Israel’s Nine-Year ‘War’ on the ICC Exposed
The Guardian
The activities of the Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, are a closely-guarded secret. But a Guardian investigation revealed a covert operation by the Mossad to sabotage an International Criminal Court war crimes investigation, which threatened to embroil senior Israeli military and political leaders.The culmination of month...
Ukrainian Children
Financial Times
Huw Edwards Behind the Cameras
The Sun
MP Uses Campaign Funds to Pay 'Bad People'
The Times
Murdered, Tortured or in Hiding From the Taliban: The Special Forces Abandoned by Britain
The Independent and Lighthouse Reports
Navy Probes Submarine Sex Pests Scandal
Daily Mail
Sellafield
The Guardian
Scoop of the Year
Huw Edwards Charged With Indecent Images
The Sun
With what judges called “the definitive jaw dropper” – the revelation that long-time BBC News anchorman Huw Edwards had been charged with making the worst type (Category A) of indecent images – The Sun smashed the Scoop of the Year ball out of the park.Following tenacious communication with the Metropolitan Police over the months since...
AZ to be Sued Over 'Defective' Vaccine
The Telegraph
Netanyahu Turns his Fire on Labour
Daily Mail
Second Post Office IT Scandal
The i Paper
Sun Reveals Plans for a Smoking Ban
The Sun
Tommy Robinson on Holiday
MailOnline
Waheed Ali
The Sunday Times
News Website of the Year
The i Paper
The i Paper
The i Paper has created digital-first content that has increased its inews.co.uk subscriber base by nearly 70 per cent in a year – and you can see why. A visual redesign has created a lively fresh look: both the homepage and app are dominated by colourful digital-first illustrations that help inject a youthful energy, and the content i...
Bloomberg UK
Bloomberg News
Financial Times
Sky News
The Guardian
The Times and The Sunday Times
News Podcast of the Year
Ukraine: The Latest
The Telegraph
In September 2024, David Knowles, the founder and presenter of the podcast Ukraine: The Latest, died suddenly at the age of 32 in Gibraltar. The fact that the UK counter-terrorism police looked into his death speaks volumes. Every weekday since the Russians invaded Ukraine, Knowles was on a mission to record accurately and eloquently t...
Cocaine Inc.
The Times and The Sunday Times
The Trial
Daily Mail
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
Here's Why
Bloomberg News
Hot Money Season 2: the New Narcos
Financial Times with Pushkin
The Story
The Times and The Sunday Times
The Weekend Intelligence
The Economist
Best Audience Engagement Initiative of the Year
Pension Power-up
Times Money Mentor
Pension Power-up/Times Money MentorPrompted by the insight that current educational methods and press campaigns were not cutting through, Times Money Mentor launched Pension Power-up (PPU) to help people supercharge their savings and reach those not engaged with their pensions at all.A battery ‘character’ in a Super-Mario-style world a...
Reclaim Your Brain Newsletter
The Guardian
Democracy 2024
Financial Times
First Edition Newsletter
The Guardian
Frontline
MailOnline
Times Live App
The Times and The Sunday Times
Broadsheet Front Page of the Year
Sunak Gambles on Snap Poll, Things Can Only Get Wetter
The Telegraph
The phrase ‘pathetic fallacy’ might have been coined to describe Rishi Sunak’s rain-drenched announcement outside Number 10 that he was calling an early General Election. The Daily Telegraph’s front page the following day, dominated by a photograph of a soggy, sad-looking Sunak, summed up the dilemma that had faced him: ‘Sunak gambles ...
End This Bloody Disgrace
The Sunday Times
Everyone Failed Them
The i Paper
Midddle East Erupts
The Times
Tabloid Front Page of the Year
GUILTY
The Sun
The full-page photograph of a grim-faced Huw Edwards, outside court, wearing dark glasses, accompanied by the big one-word headline – GUILTY – packed a powerful punch. It wasn’t just the depiction of the disgrace and downfall of someone who was for so long a trusted national treasure that hit home, but also the ultimate vindication of ...
Bring Them Home
The Sun
Donald Trump is Shot at Rally
Mail on Sunday
Little Boy in the Pudsey Pyjamas… Left to Starve to Death in Britain
The Sun
Stoking Race Riots From His Sunbed
Daily Mail
Supplement of the Year
The Times Magazine
The Times
Originality, expertise and balance are the watchwords when it comes to the way the Times Magazine handles big issues, many of them delivered through first-person articles – such as Mary-Kate Harrington recalling how she almost drank herself to death in her early twenties, or Kat Brown’s fresh perspective on adult ADHD. There are also t...
Femail
Daily Mail
FT Magazine
Financial Times
Saturday Magazine
The Guardian
The Sunday Times Magazine
The Sunday Times
YOU
The Mail on Sunday
Campaign of the Year
M.E. Awareness and Reform
The Times
The Times had been reporting on ME (or chronic fatigue syndrome) for years, highlighting the stigma faced by people suffering from the misunderstood disease. But the death, in October 2021, of Maeve Boothby O’Neill, daughter of senior Times journalist Sean O’Neill, gave new impetus to the campaign. As the inquest into Maeve’s death app...
Killed Women Count
The Guardian
Bloody Disgrace
The Sunday Times
Formula For Change
Metro
Justice For Our Daughters
The Mirror
Save Britain's Rivers
The i Paper
Unpaid Carers
The Guardian
Excellence in Diversity Award
A Commitment To Diversity And Inclusion
Bloomberg News
Bloomberg’s insightful stories address a broad range of racial, gender, economic and other inequalities, and demonstrate how depressingly quickly the influence of the George Floyd murder protests and the #MeToo campaign has faded. A piece on how the City of London has “given up on inclusion” features a range of interviews with Black pr...
Financial Times
If Year 9 were in Number 10
The Mirror
The Media Literacy Programme
The Telegraph
Best Commercial Partner
SWNS
SWNS (South West News Service) provides more content to commercial UK national newspapers and websites than any other independent news agency. The digital transformation project that it embarked on two years ago is reaping rewards: last year – its 50th year – it achieved a near 40 per cent increase in landing digital content with its c...
ORGANISATIONS AWARD
Daily Newspaper of the Year
The Times
The Times had an action-packed year. Its commitment to world coverage was exemplified in its comprehensive coverage of the US election, helped by the launch of the US version of its website. Coverage of the UK general election was equally impressive: the editions published on the day after Rishi Sunak’s decision to call an election and...
The Daily Mail
Daily Mail
The Daily Telegraph
The Telegraph
The Guardian
The i Paper
The i Paper
The Mirror
The Sun
Sunday Newspaper of the Year
The Sunday Times
‘End this bloody disgrace’ shouts the front-page headline, the call to action amplified by the red font in the last two words. The Sunday Times’s campaign to win compensation for victims of the infected blood scandal was led by political editor Caroline Wheeler, the culmination of a 23-year crusade. A few months later the first payment...
Daily Express
iWeekend
The i Paper
The Mail on Sunday
Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday
The Observer
FINALIST: The Sunday Telegraph
The Telegraph
Outstanding Contribution
Outstanding Contribution Award
Arthur Edwards
The Sun
In 2025, Arthur Edwards marked an incredible 50 years on the staff at The Sun. Now aged 84, Arthur is still working full time, covering royal engagements for The Sun, at home and abroad as well as photographing features for the paper and online. Arthur is also in demand around the world as a highly-respected royal commentator giving in...