Michael Jermey is leaving ITV after 16 years as director of news and current affairs.

Jermey, who will stay at ITV until the end of the year, is set to become chair of UK charity the Disasters Emergency Committee.

Jermey said: “I will miss the brilliant and talented people who make ITV such a special place to work.

“ITV plays a vital part in national life. It’s an honour to have spent most of my career in public service broadcasting at ITV News… Every day the people of ITV News and Programmes produce television and digital output that serves a strong public purpose and which audiences value. I will continue to cheer on the team as a committed viewer.”

Jermey’s tenure leading news and current affairs at ITV has covered five UK general elections, seven prime ministers, three US presidencies, the Scottish independence and EU referendums, the Covid-19 pandemic, the death of Queen Elizabeth II and wars in Ukraine and the Middle East.

ITV highlighted his achievements including launching the channel’s news trainee scheme in 2005, modernising its regional news output, starting the Exposure documentary strand, organising the first leaders’ debate in 2010, the 2015 editorial refresh of News at Ten with a single anchor format, the creation of the hour-long Evening News in 2022, and overseeing the launch of news content on streaming service ITVX.

ITV director of television Kevin Lygo said: “Under Michael’s leadership, ITV News has demonstrated boldness, integrity, impartiality and robust independence. Michael leaves with the great respect and admiration of all of us, and I want to thank him for his huge contribution to ITV and public service broadcasting more broadly.”

And ITV chief executive Carolyn McCall said: “Michael has been an exceptional leader of our News teams. In many forums from Westminster and Whitehall to every region in the UK, he has been a strong advocate for ITV’s journalism and our contribution to society and democracy. He has twice been the key editorial leader on the once-a-decade renewals of ITV’s public service broadcasting licences.

“High quality, accessible and trusted news, with people at the heart of the coverage, has the prominence and trust it deserves in our business and amongst millions of viewers, in large part thanks to Michael who has built a fantastic team of journalists.”

ITV said it will begin advertising for Jermey’s successor in the coming days and intends to appoint his successor before the end of the year.

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Woo, an ITV-backed media brand aimed at becoming the “defining Gen Z media business”, has closed two years after launch.

The chief executive of Woo, which launched in April 2022, has suggested that his vision for creating a new type of financially sustainable media brand “never really stood a chance”.

Woo was billed as “an antidote to the toxic news cycle” offering “shows, editorial and products designed to make you feel good”. Its content categories were: wellness, culture, joy, fashion, beauty, sex and relationships, music, film and TV, travel, and fitness.

Its content appeared on its website at planetwoo.itv.com, on social media and on ITV Hub, the broadcaster’s on-demand platform which has rebranded to ITVX since Woo’s launch.

Its primary revenue sources were through its video content and its e-commerce marketplace, which sold products including clothing.

Woo was funded and owned by ITV through its Studio 55 investment arm as the broadcaster sought to support business ideas that it believed could help improve its reach with 16 to 35-year-olds.

An ITV spokesperson told Press Gazette: “In a challenging market for publishers to grow audiences we made the difficult decision to close Woo.

“Through the business we learned a lot about content that engages with younger audiences and their viewing habits and a deeper understanding of social that will continue to shape marketing and digital strategies. Woo content continues to live on ITVX and Youtube.”

Press Gazette understands Woo had 11 staff at the time of its closure at the end of June, but many others had left during a voluntary redundancy round at the end of May.

Woo CEO: ‘We’ve achieved milestones I once thought impossible’

At the time of the launch, CEO Stephen Mai told Press Gazette the media industry did not fully appreciate “the power of memes and the power of how actually these meme accounts have some of the biggest audiences in the media”.

Mai’s aim was to reach 45 million people in Woo’s first month, including through its content being hosted on the on-demand platform ITV Hub (now ITVX), and to hit 12 million website visits within a year and gain a social media following in the hundreds of millions.

After Woo’s closure, Mai wrote on Linkedin that it had peaked at one million website users per month and five million monthly video views, but said it did “reach hundreds of millions on social”.

Mai, formerly chief marketing officer at Ladbible Group, also wrote: “Building Woo has been one of the highlights of my career. We’ve achieved milestones I once thought impossible, launching an award-winning media brand and e-commerce platform against the backdrop of tough economic conditions and a shifting marketplace.

“We saw major e-commerce platforms shutter, the advertising and retail market face challenges not seen since the financial crises, perhaps my ambition to evolve the commercial model for a financially sustainable media brand never really stood a chance.

“Building a fast moving ambitious start up within a legacy media business was a nice challenge. Doing it post pandemic with the hiring crisis, covid interruptions and a shift in work place culture defiantly [sic] taught me some lessons. Making it happen on a a time frame of 6 months (media brand) and a year (marketplace) is wild on reflection.”

He added: “Media still needs to figure out how to work in landscape of creators and dwindling advertising revenues. I look forward to see how this space evolves.”

A “masthead” page on the Woo website lists 33 employees, including a leadership team of five, at the time of the closure. The roles included one editorial assistant, four social staff, four in video, one in design and four in marketing as well as others in e-commerce and operations.

Earlier this year Woo won Best Use of Video at the Digiday Awards Europe, with praise for its use of storytelling “to create a movement built around feeling good”.

Digiday said: “Woo worked with unexpected cultural icons such as Halle Baile, Kathryn Newton and Avatar’s Jamie Flatters to build a new ‘wooness’ subculture that incorporates emotional and physical impact. The campaign generated 863 million impressions against a target of 250 million. It launched multiple award-winning original shows that subverted preconceived notions of wellbeing, including ‘No Wrong Answers,’ an internet talk show starring TikTok’s most fashionable influencers.” It was also a finalist in the Best Use of Social category.

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News is the genre that is seeing the biggest decline in linear TV viewing, according to a new Ofcom report about the UK’s media consumption habits.

The Ofcom Media Nations report, citing Barb data, revealed that average news viewing on the public service broadcaster channels decreased by 16 hours per person between 2022 and 2023 to 88 hours.

The decline was all in linear TV, with viewing via the on-demand services owned by each broadcaster (such as BBC iPlayer and ITVX) staying steady on three hours.

This meant news fell from being the second-most watched genre on public service broadcasters in 2022, behind only entertainment (157 hours), to the third most popular behind drama (which stayed on 100 hours).

Excluding sports, for which viewing depends on which major sporting events are held each year, current affairs viewing saw the second-biggest annual decline down from 25 hours to 20 hours on average per person.

Ofcom suggested the decline in news viewing may be driven by factors including an increase in the use of social media for news (including channels by the PSBs themselves on the likes of Youtube and Tiktok) as well as a decrease in the overall level of interest in news.

The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism recently found that interest in news in the UK has almost halved since 2015, with a fall from 70% saying they were extremely or very interested in news then to 38% this year.

Average PSB viewing of TV news by 16 to 24-year-olds also fell year-on-year, although not by the most among all the genres, going from 17 hours to 12 hours. Current affairs was down among this age group from six to four hours, Ofcom said.

Despite this drop in viewing there was actually an increase in new news and current affairs TV output in 2023, with hours of "first-run" output (commissioned by or for a public service broadcast channel in the UK that year) up by 261 hours or 1.4% to 19,374.

Ofcom said this was "primarily driven" by an increase on BBC channels including BBC News and BBC Parliament.

ITV's first-run news and current affairs output was down by 5.5% year-on-year - but still at its second-highest level since 2011 - and Channel 4's was down by 11.3%, with Ofcom noting that 2022 featured several high-profile events including the death of Queen Elizabeth II and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

This may also explain why there was a £13m or 3.5% reduction in spend on news and current affairs, down to £363m across the PSB channels.

Ofcom Media Nations report: Less than half of 16-24s watch broadcast TV each week

Overall, not just for news and current affairs, for the first time less than half of 16 to 24-year-olds are now watching broadcast TV in an average week, the new report found.

Ian Macrae, Ofcom’s director of market intelligence, said: “Gen Z and Alpha are used to swiping and streaming, not flipping through broadcast TV channels. They crave the flexibility, immediacy and choice that on-demand services offer, spending over three hours a day watching video, but only 20 minutes of live TV. It’s no surprise that the traditional TV is fast becoming a device of choice to watch Youtube.

“But while live TV may not have the universal pull it once did, its role in capturing those big moments that bring the nation together remains vital.”

Figures from Ofcom's Public Service Media Tracker published within the Media Nations report showed 60% of more than 2,000 respondents who had watched the BBC's TV channels in the previous six months rated it as providing trusted and accurate UK news.

Just over half (54%) of ITV viewers said the same for that channel, followed by 51% for Channel 4 and 39% for Channel 5.

"Trusted and accurate UK news" was ranked as one of the three most important attributes for a public service broadcaster to deliver by 49% of respondents. This was followed by "a wide range of different types of programmes, such as drama, comedy, entertainment or sport" (45%) and programmes that help me to understand what is going on in the world today" (29%).

Trusted and accurate news was ranked in the top three most important factors by a lower proportion of 16 to 34-year-olds: 38% did so, versus 46% of 35-54s and 60% of those aged 55 and over.

News top for daily podcast listening

The Media Nations report also featured the finding that news and current affairs podcasts have the highest daily listening of any genre.

Among those who said they listen to podcasts at least once a month, a fifth listen to news and current affairs podcasts daily.

News and current affairs podcasts are narrowly in second place for net weekly listening (48% of monthly podcast listeners) behind entertainment on 49%.

Politics podcasts are the fifth-ranked genre with 38% of listeners tuning in at least weekly, but they do not feature in the top ten for 18 to 34-year-olds.

News podcasts have a higher weekly reach (55%) among those aged 55 and over, with whom they are the top genre ahead of politics in second place (42%). Under half (47%) of 18 to 34-year-olds listen to news and current affairs podcasts weekly, making it the fourth-highest genre after entertainment (58%), comedy (54%) and discussion and talk shows (54%).

Four in ten households (41%) had a smart speaker in the first quarter of this year and 24% of those said they used it to get news reports.

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Sky News, the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV have announced their plans to cover election night 2024 and the campaign – including several leadership debates.

Overnight radio plans from LBC and Times Radio have also been unveiled.

Find details about their plans for coverage below.

• Election night plans
• Leadership debate plans

TV broadcasters’ election night plans

ITV: Tom Bradby to lead overnight coverage

Tom Bradby will again lead ITV’s election night coverage after anchoring the results programmes in 2015, 2017 and 2019, the broadcaster announced on 10 June.

Bradby will be joined in the studio throughout the night by guests including ex-SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon and Political Currency podcast hosts and former politicians George Osborne and Ed Balls.

ITV News political editor Robert Peston, deputy political editor Anushka Asthana and UK editor Paul Brand will also be on hand alongside election analysts Professor Jane Green and Professor Colin Rallings, while ITV News reporters will be bringing news from around the country.

Balls will return at 6am with Susanna Reid as Good Morning Britain comes on air with guests including Mail and Mirror journalists Andrew Pierce and Kevin Maguire, Boris Johnson’s former communications chief Guto Harri, Labour veterans Harriet Harman and Gordon Brown and former chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng.

After GMB ends at 9.25am, Julie Etchingham will lead continued coverage of the results.

Michael Jermey, ITV’s director of news and current affairs, said; “ITV will be on air from just before the polls close right through until the full results are known. Tom Bradby and his guests will share great analysis and insider knowledge with our viewers through the night. With cameras and reporters right around the country we’ll follow the political story wherever it goes.

“Good Morning Britain will be on air in its regular slot and then through the rest of day two, as politicians head to Westminster having learned the results, Julie Etchingham and our team of political correspondents will be live on ITV1 reporting on all the events in Westminster and Downing Street. It promises to be a dramatic day.”

Sky News: Kay Burley to lead overnight results coverage

Sky News was the first broadcaster to announce its plans for covering the 4 July UK general election night and results after Sunak announced the date on 22 May.

Chief presenter Kay Burley will anchor Election Night Live, the overnight results programme, from a “360-degree immersive studio” normally used by Sky Sports shows like Monday Night Football.

Burley will be covering her twelfth UK general election – her first was the election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979.

She will be joined by political editor Beth Rigby, Sunday show presenter Sir Trevor Phillips and data and economics editor Ed Conway who will provide analysis and predictions using 3D graphics.

Mayor of Greater Manchester and former Labour MP Andy Burnham will join former MSP and leader of the Scottish Conservatives Baroness Ruth Davidson to provide guest analysis. Davidson recently joined Rigby as co-hosts for a new Sky News podcast, Electoral Dysfunction, also with Labour MP Jess Phillips.

Professor Michael Thrasher will lead the Sky News psephology team, as he has at every election since 1989.

From 7am the following day, lead politics presenter Sophy Ridge, host of Sky’s Politics Hub, will report live from Westminster joined by deputy political editor Sam Coates and Sky News contributor Adam Boulton.

Sky News executive chairman David Rhodes said: “We saw a tremendous response to our coverage of this month’s local elections—and we’ll have much, much more to offer at this UK general election, with the most experienced team, plus the most comprehensive data and analysis, presented online and on TV from the most state-of-the-art studio in the country.

“Our political team is the best in the business—Kay, Sophy, Beth, Trevor, Ed, Sam, and more are ready to bring audiences the full story, first.”

Sky News will host a leaders’ event in Grimsby on 12 June with Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak.

Sam Coates and Jack Blanchard have gone daily (Monday to Friday) with their Politics at Jack and Sam’s podcast.

The broadcaster has signed up Yougov for a weekly voting intention poll.

Sky has said it plans to continue with its Electoral Dysfunction podcast featuring Phillips and Davidson. Ofcom has banned candidates from taking part in any TV or radio programmes during the campaign.

Channel 4: Krishan Guru-Murthy joined by Emily Maitlis

Channel 4 announced its presenter and guest line-up for election night in April, before Sunak had announced the July election.

Channel 4 News anchor Krishnan Guru-Murthy will lead the coverage alongside The News Agents co-host and former BBC Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis.

They will be joined throughout the night by fellow podcasters The Rest is Politics hosts Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart, as well as “some familiar faces from Gogglebox” providing their takes on the election campaign.

Cathy Newman will be presenting from the campaign HQs for the Conservatives and Labour and Channel 4 News political editor Gary Gibbon will provide analysis.

Clare Balding was originally announced to break down the data for the team but, due to the date that has been announced, can no longer do it as she will be presenting Wimbledon coverage for the BBC.

Louisa Compton, head of news and current affairs at Channel 4, said: “Even superwoman Clare Balding can’t be in two places at once…”

Guru-Murthy said: “I’m so looking forward to joining this brilliant line-up of people to capture an exciting and historic night. We will have piercing analysis, sharp interviews and all those memorable moments as the results come in. I think this is going to be one of those rare election nights we remember for decades so I hope viewers will enjoy spending it with us.”

BBC News: Laura Kuenssberg and Clive Myrie to lead

The BBC announced on Tuesday 28 May that Laura Kuenssberg and Clive Myrie will front its election night coverage, replacing Huw Edwards. They will be joined by BBC political editor Chris Mason and newsreader Reeta Chakrabarti who will provide analysis as seats are announced.

The move makes Kuenssberg the first woman to anchor the BBC on election night and marks the first time the occasion has been led by two people.

Jeremy Vine returns to helm the “swingometer”, the sometimes flamboyant data visualisation segment that has previously seen Vine in a computer-generated Elizabeth Tower and walking around a virtual Downing Street. Pollster John Curtice will also return to provide analysis.

Vine will broadcast from Cardiff. Kirsty Wark, who announced in October that she will end her 30 years hosting Newsnight after the election, will broadcast from Glasgow, and Radio 4 presenter Andrea Catherwood from Belfast.

Fiona Bruce, Victoria Derbyshire, Naga Munchetty, Nick Watt and Alex Forsyth will be “among the BBC presenters and correspondents reporting from key locations around the country”, the corporation said.

Today programme presenter Nick Robinson, BBC 5 Live presenter Rachel Burden and BBC chief political correspondent Henry Zeffman will helm Radio 4 and, from midnight, 5 Live via a simulcast.

National television results programmes in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales will be hosted respectively by Martin Geissler, Mark Carruthers, and Nick Servini.

Newsreaders Sophie Raworth and Jon Kay, along with deputy political editor Vicki Young, will pick up the baton from the overnight presenters on the morning of 5 July.

BBC News chief executive Deborah Turness said the corporation had “assembled a fresh, dynamic team to bring insight, experience – and perhaps a little wit – to audiences for the whole election night and beyond”.

The BBC added that it has invited “the leaders of the seven biggest political parties” to take part in televised debates, although Labour sources told BBC News last week that Starmer wants to do head-to-head debates with Sunak alone.

GB News: Camilla Tominey and Stephen Dixon to anchor

GB News, which is billing itself as “Britain’s Election Channel”, will broadcast the results live throughout the night and feature “integral” reactions from its viewers.

Editorial director Mick Booker said: “Viewers and listeners can also expect some surprise guests and fun and games at our election party as the people decide on who will govern our country from July 5.”

The overnight coverage starting at 9.55pm will be anchored by Camilla Tominey and Stephen Dixon, with analysis and reaction from political editor Christopher Hope and GB News presenter and ex-Labour MP Gloria De Piero and numbers from presenter Tom Harwood and pollster Professor Matthew Goodwin.

They will be joined by Patrick Christys and Michelle Dewberry who will be coming live from a GB News election watch party at a club in Essex with “guests from politics and entertainment” as well as viewers who will give live reaction.

Political figures signed up to be panellists during the GB News coverage include: Kwasi Kwarteng, Sir Brandon Lewis, Luciana Berger, James Heappey, Margaret Hodge, Sir Graham Brady, Geoff Hoon, Alastair Stewart, Arlene Foster, George Eustice and Craig Mackinlay, the former Conservative MP who returned to the Commons after his battle with sepsis just before the election was called.

Despite an announcement in October that former prime minister Boris Johnson would be joining GB News as a presenter and commentator this year and play a “key role” in coverage of the UK and US elections, he has not yet been part of the broadcaster’s plans.

From 6am breakfast hosts Eamonn Holmes and Isabel Webster will take over with a special edition of their programme titled Vote 2024: The People Decide With Eamonn and Isabel.

Reaction will continue with Andrew Pierce and Bev Turner at 9.30am with Vote 2024: The People Decide with Andrew and Bev.

GB News presenters and reporters will be coming live from polling stations across the UK through the night.

Other GB News presenters involved in the coverage will be: Ellie Costello, Emily Carver, Nana Akua, Mark Dolan, Ben Leo, Dawn Neesom, Michael Portillo and Martin Daubney.

CNN International: Richard Quest and Isa Soares to lead coverage

CNN International, which is available on TVs in the UK and online with a subscription, is airing special coverage from 9.55pm on 4 July.

It will be anchored from CNN’s London studio by Richard Quest and Isa Soares, alongside Anna Stewart tracking the numbers with an interactive 3D visualisation and Salma Abdelaziz and Clare Sebastian reporting from various locations in London throughout the night.

From the morning Max Foster will anchor from outside the Houses of Parliament with Nic Robertson reporting live from Downing Street.

Radio broadcasters’ election night plans

LBC: Andrew Marr and Shelagh Fogarty to host overnight

Radio station LBC’s coverage of the election results coming in from 10pm on 4 July will be led by its presenters Andrew Marr and Shelagh Fogarty.

They will be joined by two of the three hosts of Global’s podcast The News Agents: Jon Sopel and Lewis Goodall. Emily Maitlis, the third presenter, is helping to lead the Channel 4 overnight programming.

Their seven-hour show will be followed by an extended five-hour version of Nick Ferrari at Breakfast from 5am.

Global said it will also, for the first time, use its network of 2,000 digital billboards across the UK to show the exit poll and results as they come in.

The News Agents is ramping up coverage ahead of the election with seven episodes a week.

LBC is also hosting a phone-in with Starmer on Tuesday 18 June and with Sunak the next day. It will also host other policy debates with senior figures such as an immigration show hosted by Iain Dale with James Cleverly of the Conservatives and Labour’s Yvette Cooper.

Times Radio: Matt Chorley presents on election night, kicking off ‘100 hours of non-stop live election programming’

Times Radio’s overnight election results show between 9:55pm on 4 July and 6am the following morning will be presented by Matt Chorley, the broadcaster has announced.

Chorley’s programme will kick off what Times Media promises will be “100 hours of non-stop live election programming” stretching through to Monday night.

Alongside Chorley the election night show will feature Times Radio political editor Kate McCann and presenter Calum Macdonald, with analysis from the likes of William Hague, Ayesha Hazarika and new arrival at the station Andrew Neil.

The broadcast will also throw out to Times Radio, Times and Sunday Times reporters around the country and in the newsroom.

Part of the 100 hours of broadcasting will include two recordings of the Times Radio podcast How To Win An Election, with one carried out at 11pm on election night and one at 11am the following morning. The podcasts will feature Peter Mandelson, Daniel Finkelstein and former director of policy to the deputy prime minister Polly Mackenzie.

Times Radio programme director Tim Levell said: “This is Times Radio’s first General Election, and we are raising the broadcasting bar with 100 hours of continuous election coverage.

“Our listeners can tune in any time from Thursday night onwards to get the latest announcements and analysis. And as the results come in, Matt Chorley will be the perfect host, ensuring that listeners who stay up overnight will find no better place on the radio for expert analysis, latest reaction and entertaining company.”

Chorley said: “Election night is one of those moments when political history will be made in real time – what a privilege to be on air as it unfolds. In keeping with our reputation for doing things differently, we will combine having the best correspondents around the country, with the best conversation in the studio, and some very special guests to make sure it is election night without the boring bits.”

Broadcasters’ election leadership debate plans

Confirmed leadership debates:

• Tuesday 4 June: ITV head-to-head leaders debate moderated by Julie Etchingham
• Friday 7 June: BBC seven-party debate moderated by Mishal Husain
• Wednesday 12 June: Sky News head-to-head leaders special with interviews by Beth Rigby
• Thursday 13 June: ITV multi-party debate presented by Julie Etchingham
• Thursday 20 June: BBC Question Times Leaders’ special featuring four leaders, hosted by Fiona Bruce
• Wednesday 26 June: BBC head-to-head leaders debate hosted by Mishal Husain

BBC to host three election debates

The BBC has announced that it is to host a head-to-head party leaders debate for Starmer and Sunak on Wednesday 26 June, in Nottingham.

The debate was originally due to be hosted by Sophie Raworth but she has stepped down due to a fractured ankle so it will be led by Mishal Husain.

The debate has also been extended to last from 8.15pm to 9.30pm and will be followed by reaction and analysis from Laura Kuenssberg and Clive Myrie until 10pm.

A seven-party debate, featuring leading political figures, will be broadcast on 7 June from London at 7.30pm moderated by Mishal Husain. The seven representatives are: Penny Mordaunt for the Conservatives, Angela Rayner for Labour, Daisy Cooper for the Lib Dems, Stephen Flynn for the SNP, Carla Denyer for the Greens, Rhun ap Iorwerth for Plaid Cymru and Nigel Farage for Reform UK.

And a Question Time Leaders’ special featuring the leaders of the four biggest political parties in the UK will be broadcast on 20 June hosted by Fiona Bruce.

Today presenter and former BBC political editor Nick Robinson has also invited each of the leaders of the seven biggest political parties to be interviewed for Panorama specials across the next four weeks.

All of the programmes will be broadcast on BBC One and the BBC News channel.

Sky News confirms Grimsby leaders special

Sky News has confirmed both Sunak and Starmer will take part in a leaders special programme with a live studio audience in Grimsby on Wednesday 12 June.

Both Sunak and Sunak will take part in a 20-minute interview with political editor Beth Rigby before taking questions from the audience for 25 minutes. There will be a coin toss to decide who goes first.

The leaders event will take place between 7.30pm and 9pm with special programming before and after led by Sophy Ridge.

Sky said Grimsby was chosen because its new Grimsby and Cleethorpes constituency “is complex and likely to be a key battleground in the election”.

Appearing to reference the first debate by ITV which was criticised for only allowing answers of 45 seconds, Sky News executive editor and managing editor Jonathan Levy said: “People said they wanted to hear more from Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer, so Sky News is giving them more time to tell you about their plans for your future. Each candidate. 45 minutes – not 45 seconds… In-depth and unfiltered. We’re giving the nation the full story, first.”

ITV to host first debate

ITV will host the first debate of the election campaign, which will be a head-to-head match-up between Starmer and Sunak.

The hour-long debate, titled Sunak v Starmer: The ITV Debate and moderated by ITV News at Ten presenter Julie Etchingham, will air at 9pm on Tuesday 4 June.

ITV said the debate will broadcast simultaneously on ITV1 and STV and online via ITVX and STV Player.

Etchingham previously moderated general election debates in 2015, 2017 and 2019.

ITV director of news and current affairs Michael Jermey said: “Millions of viewers value the election debates. They provide a chance to see and hear the party leaders set out their pitch to the country, debate directly with each other and take questions from voters.

“ITV is pleased to be broadcasting the first debate in this year’s election campaign.”

ITV will also host a 90-minute multi-party debate, also moderated by Etchingham, with leaders or senior representatives from the Conservatives, Labour, Lib Dems, SNP, Reform UK, Green Party and Plaid Cymru at 8.30pm on Thursday 13 June.

Those taking part will be: Penny Mordaunt for the Conservatives, Angela Rayner for Labour, Daisy Cooper for the Lib Dems, Stephen Flynn for the SNP, Nigel Farage for Reform UK, Carla Denyer for the Greens and Rhun ap Iorwerth for Plaid Cymru.

The Sun ‘showdown’

Although not a traditional broadcaster, The Sun is one of many national newsbrands producing more video content.

Its Never Mind The Ballots show hosted by political editor Harry Cole is putting out an Election Showdown programme on Monday 24 June featuring back-to-back interviews with Sunak and Starmer including questions from readers.

Piers Morgan, a Sun columnist who presents a sister News UK Youtube show, “Piers Morgan Uncensored”, will join Cole for the exit poll result to give “a snap reaction to the first indication of the election results”, The Sun said.

It will be broadcast on The Sun’s website, Youtube and other social channels. The event will host “spin room” facilities for other media outlets to attend, similar to the main broadcast debates.

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As UK media pay is again under the spotlight with STV the latest outlet to strike over salaries and National World journalists considering their new pay offer, Press Gazette has updated its ranking of the highest paid jobs in UK media.

Topping the list this time around are two of RELX’s top executives who both netted impressive paychecks in 2023. Chief executive Erik Engstrom made a total of £13.6m in the year, while chief financial officer Nick Luff made £7.1m once his fixed pay, bonuses and payouts are totalled.

The British information powerhouse, which has a well-known stable of legal and scientific brands, has seen strong success in recent years seeing its share price drive more than 100% higher over five years.

Three other information and analytics companies also made the top ten, reflecting the relatively strong performance of the sector. Fourth best-paid on our list was research and polling company Yougov’s former chief executive (now chairman) Stephan Shakespeare who made £4.7m, followed by Informa chief executive Stephen Carter (£3.8m) and Euromoney’s former CEO Andrew Rashbass (£3.5m in 2021/22, the latest figures available. He left the business in November that year).

DMGT, whose chairman and chief executive Lord Rothermere topped the ranking the last time we did this analysis in 2022 with total earnings of £10.9m in 2021, dropped to third after its highest-paid director made £6.5m in 2023. Since Rothermere took the company private in 2022, DMGT no longer has to disclose details of its directors’ remuneration beyond the total figure that was earned by the highest-paid director, who can remain unnamed.

The best paid executives at Reach were chief financial officer Darren Fisher who received total remuneration of £571,000 in 2023 while chief executive Jim Mullen made £564,000. The company’s executives agreed to forgo salary increases in 2023, while Mullen and Fisher have agreed to forgo their bonuses. Fisher received more than Mullen as a result of the business buying out his ITV cash bonus which he forfeited by joining Reach.

The best paid broadcast executive was an unnamed executive at Global who made £3.1m in 2023, followed by ITV’s Carolyn McCall who was paid more than £2.9m – although this was 22% down on 2022.

Private limited companies often just list the salary of their “highest-paid director”. In those cases we have included the pay and company names but not the job title or name of the individual.

Key revelations of the research include:

• RELX paid the most to its executives, with the company's two highest-paid executives, CEO Erik Engstrom and chief financial officer Nick Luff netting over £20m between them.
  
• Of the 60 names on our list, 29 executives, representing 19 companies, grossed at least £1m in remuneration in their last reported annual pay package.
  
• Three Yougov executives accounted for the three biggest year-on-year increases in remuneration due to large share payouts in 2023.
  
• Executives at B2B publishing companies took home the the largest average paychecks (£2.5m) driven by large remuneration packages for top leaders at a handful of companies such as RELX, Informa and Haymarket.
  
• When it came to highest average median salary, B2B media again topped the list (£1.63m) followed by consumer information companies (median executive pay of £1.28m) and magazines (£921,000).
  
• Regional media executives were paid the least on average - the median compensation at the four regional publishers on our list was £459,000.
  
• Less than one in three (29%) of the named executives in our top 60 list are female - down from 36% in 2022.
  
• The median pay for named female executives on the list was £811,000 compared to £1m for men. Average paychecks revealed an even bigger disparity of £1.9m for men compared to £1.1m for their female counterparts, driven by the high pay of a handful of very well compensated male executives.
  
• ITV chief executive Carolyn McCall was the only woman among the ten best paid media executives on the list.
  
• 30 executives on the list received pay increases of at least 4%, while six at least doubled or almost doubled their pay.
  
• Note: For 13 entries on our list we only know the salary for the highest-paid executive at the company according to latest limited company accounts but do not know the name of the executive.

Highest paid UK media jobs: research methodology

The Press Gazette Media Rich List comprises the top 60 best-paid executives at UK news media and magazine publishers, broadcasters and information and data companies with a significant publishing arm. The list is based on availability of public data found in the accounts of the UK's biggest publishing companies.

For each, we have used the most up-to-date pay information available. Some companies have only published information covering 2022, while others have published full accounts for the financial year up to some point in 2023.

Where an executive has moved on from a company or has changed position, the pay and title reported are for the position that the executive held as per the latest pay report.

While publicly-traded companies have to disclose executive pay in their annual financial reports including director names and the various components of their pay, UK private companies only need to disclose the amount received by the highest-paid director in their Companies House filings. They do not have to identify that executive or report the pay packages of other individual executives - meaning that some high-earning executives at private companies that may have otherwise made this list could not be included.

The BBC discloses the pay of any senior managers earning more than £150,000, and any who qualified for the top 60 were included in the list.

Some executives that appeared in our previous list may not appear on this one, for example where a company has been taken private. Highly-paid executives from other companies (such as News Corp and Sky News) also do not feature on the list for a variety of reasons, including that they were registered abroad or had not disclosed full director pay in their Companies House accounts. For example, News UK’s Rebekah Brooks, who was one of the best-paid executives in our last ranking, no longer appears on this list as the company’s latest filing only reflects the fraction of Brooks’ pay deemed to apply to services to News UK.

The list only covers the top executives at companies and does not include the pay of talent. Editors are only included in cases where they served on the executive board of outlets.

If you believe any companies have been left out, please let us know by emailing aisha.majid@ns-mediagroup.com.

Who had the biggest pay increases or decreases?

Despite a challenging economic context in the last few years, many outlets saw executive pay either increase or maintained in 2022 and 2023.

Yougov’s then chief executive (now non-executive chair) Stephan Shakespeare, former chief operating officer Sundip Chahal and chief financial officer Alex McIntosh all took home at least four times as much in 2023 as in 2022 due to large share payouts.

Executives at B2B media and intelligence companies RELX, Informa and Euromoney also saw large pay increases.

Because several of the companies on the list are publicly traded, a large amount of executive remuneration comes from bonuses paid in the form of shares. At RELX for example, chief executive Engstrom's pay comprised £1.6m in base salary and benefits such as pension payments, and over £12m in shares, share payments and cash bonuses.

Nick Luff, RELX's chief financial officer, meanwhile received £916,000 in salary and benefits and a further £6.1m in bonuses and payouts.

Yougov ex-chief executive Shakespeare’s base pay meanwhile was £337,000, but taken with share payouts and other benefits he netted £4.7m during the 2023 financial year.

A number of companies have had a tough couple of years after the pandemic, including Reach which has been hit by falling referral traffic from Facebook and Google and lower yields from advertising. As a result, executives in 2023 were not paid bonuses for a second year and agreed to freeze their salaries. It is a far cry from earlier years when Reach chief executive Jim Mullen and then-chief financial officer Simon Fuller both saw their overall pay packages increase by over 700% between 2020 and 2021.

Scottish broadcaster STV, whose staff recently carried out a one-day strike over pay with a further walkout planned, saw executives receive an effective pay cut due to lower bonuses in 2022. The total remuneration for chief executive Pitts, who is leaving to join Global early next year, was 22% lower in 2023 than 2022.

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The journalists behind ITV documentary The Crossing have explained how they found sources in the Dunkirk ‘Jungle’ and Kurdistan to give a voice to the victims of the biggest UK maritime disaster of recent years.

Press Gazette spoke to Handa Majed, Nechirvan Mando and Jamie Welham, three of the core team of five who produced the documentary.

The film focuses on the causes and consequences of the capsizing of a dingy packed with asylum seekers in the English Channel in November 2021, which caused 31 deaths.

It traces the journey of those who died, focussing on their experiences with people smugglers and communications with family.

It won the Foreign Affairs award at the British Journalism Awards in December, where judges said: “This was an absolutely immaculate piece of filmmaking providing forensic reconstruction of a historic maritime disaster with powerful testimony from the family of the victims.”

Associate producer Handa Majed, also a former Kurdish refugee, described her role as “the glue between the documentary and the families.”

She said: “As a journalist, you have to explain the good that comes out of the documentary so we focused on how it would help bring closure and a voice to asylum seekers.”

Majed explained how some of the victim’s families were initially reluctant to be interviewed, fearing that they would be exploited and used. Her role was to build trust and explain the purpose of the documentary.

She said: “It’s difficult when you know that someone’s pain is so raw, but you still go in there and open the wound.

“I knew they wanted to do it and it was for a good cause, but it was still painful.”

Majed also worked undercover to locate people-smugglers in the ‘Jungle’ of Dunkirk.

She met with smugglers in broad daylight in the city centre to organise a crossing, highlighting the ease with which the gangs operate.

‘This was the most tragic story I’ve covered’

Like Majed, Nechirvan Mando, the documentary’s Kurdistan producer, has stayed in contact with those he interviewed.

He explained how he initially reached out to the victims’ families: “Finding the contacts in Kurdistan was a bit of luck.

“I knew that in Ranya, a town in Kurdistan, a lot of people travel to the UK so, immediately after the news broke of the deaths, I went there looking for the victims’ families.

“I met one person who said that their brother had crossed the previous night, but he hadn’t heard about his arrival.

“I interviewed him for The Guardian and after a few hours, he discovered that his brother was on the boat which sank.”

This contact provided the details of other family members who also suspected that their loved ones were on the capsized boat, which formed the basis of the documentary’s interviews.

Mando added: “I have covered a lot of wars in Iraq and Syria, and I have seen a lot of horrible things happen to civilians, but this was the most tragic story I’ve covered.

“This is different to a war zone because they send their families to what they think will be a better place.”

‘A director’s job is to make sense of the chaos’

The director, Jamie Welham, explained the process of finding relevant people to interview aside from victim’s families.

Visiting Dunkirk about ten times while producing the documentary, he said that he spoke to anyone who may have had contact with those on the boat in the leadup to the accident.

He said: “A director’s job is to try and make sense of the chaos. There’s so many leads, so much information and so many people and you have to try to identify a thread and way of telling it that pulls it all together in a revealing, emotive and compelling way.

“It was so important because part of humanising them is to make the audience feel like they are travelling in their footsteps, so we wanted to get an accurate picture of their journey.”

Welham reached out to NGOs working in Dunkirk as well as charities and community groups across France and Britain.

He said that his main focus was contacting one of the two survivors for a first-hand account.

One Kurdish survivor had been threatened by the gangs and so refused to speak but the Somali survivor had been traced by a Somali journalist named Bashir Caato, and eventually agreed to speak.

He explained: “We had to do a lot of trust building and reassurance before we were in a place to interview him.

“He was able to confirm the identity of the smugglers which was crucial to the documentary and, ultimately, a smuggler’s arrest.”

When asked about the creative process of documentary journalism, Welham said: “When people think of investigative journalism, it can seem quite detached, so we were constantly thinking about how to give the story a heart.

“I think documentary journalism’s experiencing an interesting moment.

“My sense is that current affairs documentary is in quite good health and is the sort of space, in all the genres of television, where the most interesting and creative work is being made.”

The impact of the documentary was immense. Welham explained: “It had a real-world impact, this film helped move the needle on the public inquiry, it prompted multiple arrests in the UK, France and Iraq and it helped shift public consciousness on small boat crossings.”

The 60 minute documentary was produced by DM Productions for ITV.

ITV Exposure broadcasts films and episodes on domestic and foreign news throughout the year on ITV1 and ITV.

Other awards won by ITV at the latest British Journalism Awards included Tom Bradby’s interview with Prince Harry and the documentary The Clinic which won the Health and Life Sciences Journalism award.

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Almost one in ten of all complaints sent to broadcast regulator Ofcom in 2023 were about coverage of the conflict in Israel and Gaza which began in October.

This figure does not include any complaints about BBC coverage, which must go direct to the broadcaster at first and only get escalated to Ofcom if further investigation is needed. The BBC has faced numerous complaints of its own, including over its choice not to label Hamas as terrorists without attribution and its initial attribution of a hospital blast in Gaza to an Israel airstrike.

Ofcom said it is prioritising complaints about Israel and Gaza coverage to ensure it can uphold standards of both due impartiality and due accuracy.

Two episodes of Breakfast with Kay Burley on Sky News relating to the conflict appeared in Ofcom’s list of the ten most-complained about programmes in 2023.

The first saw Burley ask Israeli spokesperson Eylon Levy whether Israel does “not think that Palestinian lives are valued as highly as Israeli lives” because 50 Israeli hostages were being released in exchange for 150 Palestinian prisoners. She said this suggestion had come from a hostage negotiator she had previously interviewed.

Levy shared the clip on X/Twitter, noting his surprised expression by saying: “The first question that left me speechless…”

Burley said on X the following morning: “We often put one side of an argument to a guest so they can offer a counterclaim. Yesterday, I raised a controversial view from an earlier guest to allow another to respond. Each morning we’re dedicated to presenting fairly the news of this war.”

This programme, which received 1,880 complaints, is not being investigated by Ofcom.

The regulator said: “Taking account of Mr Levy’s forceful challenge to the premise of the question about the value of Israeli versus Palestinian lives, and the context of the wider discussion about the terms of the temporary ceasefire, we will not be pursuing further.”

Ofcom is still assessing complaints about another of Burley’s programmes, in which she was accused of misrepresenting comments by the Palestinian ambassador by telling another guest he had “basically said, the last couple of days, that ‘Israel had it coming’”. That exchange received 1,640 complaints.

Also relating to the war, the third most-complained about programme of the year was Good Morning Britain on 17 October when presenter Richard Madeley asked Lib Dem MP Layla Moran, who has extended family in Gaza, whether there was any indication of what would happen ahead of the 7 October attack by Hamas.

He said: “With your family connections in Gaza, did you have any indication of what was going to happen ten days ago, two weeks ago? Was there there any word on the street?”

Moran later accepted an apology from Madeley and said: “I didn’t feel and don’t feel that it came from a place of malice. I think it, frankly, came from a place of, perhaps, ignorance.

“Perhaps it reminds us that in this conflict, which is complicated – this is not the slam dunk in a way that Russia-Ukraine was – this has a long history that needs to be understood and this has an important context in the wider region that needs to be understood.”

Ofcom has decided not to launch a formal investigation. It said: “We considered his live, unscripted remarks were potentially offensive.

“However, taking the entire interview into account, and in particular a preceding discussion about Hamas using civilians as human shields, we considered the question sought to explore whether civilians were aware of a potential escalation in hostilities, rather than suggesting that Ms Moran or her family were aware of specific plans for the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023.

“In her response, Ms Moran spoke about her surprise at the scale and sophistication of the attack. In light of this, we will not be pursuing further.”

Despite the dominance of the Israel-Gaza conflict, the most-complained about programme overall in 2023 was the episode of Dan Wootton Tonight in which Laurence Fox made misogynistic comments about female journalist Ava Evans of Joe.co.uk.

The programme and its backlash resulted in Fox being fired from the channel and Wootton, who appeared to laugh while the comments were being made, being suspended. An Ofcom investigation into whether the discussion broke its rules on offence is ongoing.

GB News was found to be in breach of Ofcom’s Broadcasting Code five times overall – three times in relation to due impartiality and twice because of its rules that “protect audiences from harm”.

In total Ofcom received 69,236 complaints about 9,638 cases, nearly twice as many complaints as in 2022, nearly a quarter of the 2023 total was made up by the two most complained-about programmes.

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The Guardian was the big winner of the British Journalism Awards 2023, taking home five prizes including News Provider of the Year.

BBC News won four awards, while ITV Exposure won three and The Times, The Sunday Times and The Economist’s 1843 Magazine all took home two apiece.

“Prolific scoop-getter” Gabriel Pogrund, Whitehall editor at The Sunday Times, was recognised as the Journalist of the Year for work that ultimately helped lead to the resignation of BBC chairman Richard Sharp and chief whip Gavin Williamson.

Freelance journalist Ian Birrell was recognised for Public Service Journalism for his work for the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday and the i due to his “incomparable” ability to bring public interest investigations to a mass audience.

The 12th annual British Journalism Awards continue to celebrate journalism that shows skill and rigour, is revelatory and serves the public interest.

The 30 winners were whittled down from 800 entries and 180 finalists by an independent panel of 80 judges.

Hi-res photos of the awards night are available to download via this link.

Scroll down for the full list of British Journalism Awards 2023 winners and highly commended finalists

Other winners included ITV’s Tom Bradby as Interviewer of the Year for his sitdown with Prince Harry, The Times for Scoop of the Year with its exposure of British Gas debt agents breaking into the homes of vulnerable people, and The Times again for its Clean it Up campaigning work for Campaign of the Year.

Reach won Innovation of the Year for its work using WhatsApp Communities, The Independent’s Bel Trew won the Marie Colvin Award for her work from Ukraine and Antonia Cundy was named New Journalist of the Year for her investigative work at the Financial Times.

The winners were revealed at a sold-out awards ceremony hosted by comedian Kerry Godliman at London’s Hilton Bankside on Thursday night (14 December).

In his opening comments, Press Gazette editor-in-chief and chairman of the judges Dominic Ponsford said: “Our business is important because it is the one which holds all others to account.

“Squeezed as we are by the dark forces of online advertising technology, under attack by litigious oligarchs and in more danger than ever when reporting on conflicts overseas – tonight is a night to forget all that and celebrate a job well done.”

The awards were supported by headline sponsor Starling Bank along with Amazon, Camelot, Google News Initiative, RenewableUK and YouTube. They supported charity partner the Journalists’ Charity.

The Journalists’ Charity is devoted to assisting members of the profession who fall on hard times. If you can, please help a colleague by making a donation via this link.

Full list of British Journalism Awards 2023 winners and highly commended finalists

Social Affairs, Diversity & Inclusion Journalism

WINNER: Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, Vanessa Bowles, Bettina Waked, Jasmine Bonshor, Liza Hodgson, Maria Caramelo, Mohamed Salah, Tim Awford, Rosie Garthwaite and Mustafa Khalili – BBC News

• Queer Egypt Under Attack

The judges said: “This was a really important piece of journalism with great bravery required by both reporters and sources.”

Highly commended: Maya Wolfe-Robinson, Joseph Harker, Jonathan Shainin, David Olusoga, Gary Younge, Lanre Bakare, Aamna Mohdin, Courtney Yusuf and others – The Guardian

• Cotton Capital

The judges said: “Few publications would be brave enough to subject themselves to such scrutiny.”

Features Journalism  

WINNER: Mick Brown – The Telegraph

• Inside the private world of Freddie Mercury, with the woman who knew him best
• Phil Spector told me he had ‘devils inside’. One month later, he murdered Lana Clarkson
• The strange case of the British rugby player who disappeared without a trace

The judges said: “This work was shocking, insightful and full of fascinating details. It showed true journalistic skills in breaking down the reluctance of people to talk.”

Highly commended: Ian Birrell – Daily Mail/Mail on Sunday

• I’ve seen the fragility of our way of life, how precious is peace and the need for vigilance against tyranny: Over six gruelling months, IAN BIRRELL has reported on the worst of humanity and also the best – in the courage and heroism of ordinary Ukrainians
• Town of the damned: Few places in Ukraine have suffered more than Izyum, where citizens say they now ‘live in caves’. At least 1,000 have died… and, as IAN BIRRELL found, one brave surgeon worked in medieval conditions to save who he could
• The mothers having their names erased from their children’s birth certificates – by the state

Highly commended: Simon Hattenstone – The Guardian

• My mother, the troll: ‘I think she lost sight of the McCanns’ humanity’
• ‘The crowd were saying, “Kill him, kick him to death”’: what happened to the people who protested against King Charles?
• The man who walked around the world: Tom Turcich on his seven-year search for the meaning of life

The judges praised Birrell’s “exemplary feature writing” and Hattenstone’s “fine writing”.

Local Journalism  

WINNER: Chris Burn – The Yorkshire Post

• My seven years reporting on Sheffield’s tree scandal
• How campaigners saved 11,000 Sheffield trees from the axe after council tried to jail them
• Sheffield Council misled public and courts over efforts to chop down half of city’s street trees, inquiry finds

The judges said: “The sheer scale of this story is extraordinary. This reporter showed huge tenacity to lift a veil of misinformation, misrepresentation and downright dishonesty.”

Highly commended: Sam McBride – Belfast Telegraph

• Crime scene documents show police were using illegal dump
• PSNI anti-corruption officers accused of corruption over £120 breakfasts, mysterious hotel stays and wine
• PSNI data slipped past FIVE key checks

The judges said McBride’s work showed “defiance of authority and sheer courage”.

Highly commended: Liam Thorp – Liverpool Echo

• Councillors used ‘back door’ to beat parking fines

The judges said Thorp successfully “lifted the lid on a shamefully warped culture in a local authority”.

Health & Life Sciences Journalism

WINNER: Mark Hedgecoe, James Rogan, Simon Gilchrist, Lesley Shields, Xinlan Rose and John Moffat – ITV Exposure

• The Clinic

The judges said: “This was journalism which got to the heart of a huge current topic, cutting through the noise and making a difference.”

Crime & Legal Journalism    

WINNER: Emily Dugan – The Guardian

• ‘I started shaking’: Andrew Malkinson on being told he is a free man
• Police and CPS had key DNA evidence 16 years before Andrew Malkinson cleared of rape
• Case review chief was in Montenegro during Andrew Malkinson revelations

The judges said: “This was exemplary campaigning work taking place over a number of years and revealing an appalling miscarriage of justice. The story came to represent the failure of the law enforcement, oversight and judicial systems.”

Comment Journalism  

WINNER: Matthew Holehouse – The Economist

• The Conservative Party faces a mutiny in Metroland
• The Conservative Party’s morbid symptoms
• Thatcher, Sunak and the politics of the supermarket

The judges said: “This writer has provided unrivalled and influential coverage of the undercurrents driving the Conservative Party’s languishing poll ratings.”

Highly commended: William Hague – The Times

• Boris Johnson and Liz Truss should fess up to failure
• Stop smartphones stealing kids’ childhoods
• HS2 has gone from shambles to red alert

The judges praised Hague’s “incisive writing and original thinking which often impacts public debate”.

Specialist Journalism

WINNER: Peter Blackburn and Ben Ireland – The Doctor magazine/British Medical Association

• A tale of one city
• Further than ever
• Symptoms of a crisis

The judges said: “These were meaty investigations with a great blend of data and powerful personal stories. They pull few punches but always keep focus on sustaining a strong narrative.”

Highly commended: Samantha Booth – Schools Week

• The Great SEND School Robbery
• ‘Disturbing neglect’ as severely disabled children left to go hungry
• How inclusive are mainstream schools?

The judges praised Booth for “huge investigative effort on a topic which rarely features in national headlines”.

Foreign Affairs Journalism  

WINNER: Handa Majed, Ben Ferguson, Nechirvan Mando, Jamie Welham and David Modell – ITV Exposure

• The Crossing

The judges said: “This was an absolutely immaculate piece of filmmaking providing forensic reconstruction of a historic maritime disaster with powerful testimony from the family of the victims.”

Technology Journalism, sponsored by Amazon 

WINNER: Siân Boyle – The Sunday Times/Daily Mail

• Televisions, smart meters, fridges, doorbells… and even light bulbs: The very real fears Beijing has filled Britain’s homes with gadgets that China can use to spy on us
• Why China doesn’t let its kids loose on TikTok
• Is Big Brother Britain about to become the world’s ultimate surveillance state?

The judges said: “This is a journalist who is ahead of the pack in terms of bringing the big technology themes to a mainstream audience and is completely on top of her brief.”

Built Environment Journalism  

WINNER: Jessica Hill – Schools Week

• The ‘ticking time bomb’ leaving schools ‘liable to collapse’
• Councils dawdle on surveying collapse risk building material
• UK public buildings feared to be at risk of collapse as concrete crumbles

The judges said of the winner: “A fantastic piece of journalism and a reminder that sector specialist magazines can and should scoop the national media. Jessica highlighted the problem of aerated concrete in schools with a story that became at national obsession nine months later.”

Personal Finance Journalism 

WINNER: Andrew Picken – BBC Scotland News Online

• Tenant urges others to follow after deposit win
• Paramedics say people are getting ill because their homes are so cold
• Parents’ anguish as Dargavel school 1,000 places short after £75m blunder

The judges said Picken had “gone the extra yard with his reporting and provided a voice for people who are often overlooked by the media”.

Highly commended: Katie Morley – The Telegraph

• ‘My partner was scammed out of £500,000, but is he hiding a deep dark secret?’
• Surprising new twist for autistic scam victim who lost £500,000
• ‘I lost £400k after a NatWest wealth adviser referred me to a Ponzi scheme’

The judges described Morley as an “excellent example of a consumer champion”.

Energy & Environment Journalism, sponsored by RenewableUK

WINNER: Jess Kelly, Owen Pinnell, Carole Bertinet, Mohamed Boteen, Nour Altounji, Inam Talib, Azhar Al-Rubaie, Rosie Garthwaite, Mustafa Khalili and Tim Awford – BBC News

• Under Poisoned Skies

The judges said: “This was prescient, influential and thorough. It had the wow factor and was investigative journalism which got results.”

Highly commended: Elisângela Mendonça, Andrew Wasley, Misbah Khan, Grace Murray and Josephine Moulds – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

• Collagen craze drives deforestation and rights abuses
• Polish meat giant supplied superbug-infected chicken to UK shelves
• Mines, pipelines and oil rigs: what HSBC’s ‘sustainable finance’ really pays for

The judges said this was “impactful public interest journalism where the reporters got their hands dirty”.

Highly commended: Rachel Salvidge and Leana Hosea – The Guardian/Watershed Investigations

• Revealed: scale of ‘forever chemical’ pollution across UK and Europe
• Buncefield: the PFAS legacy of ‘biggest fire in peacetime Europe’
• Firm releases almost 800kg of ‘forever chemical’ a year into Lancashire river

The judges said this was “important journalism which involved vital original scientific research”.

Arts & Entertainment Journalism  

WINNER: Rachael Healy – The Guardian

• David Walliams recorded making derogatory remarks about BGT contestants
• ‘We’ve had to stop people fighting and urinating in their seats’: the ugly new side of theatre audiences
• Was it worth it? Edinburgh fringe acts give their verdict on the festival

The judges said: “A big talking point at the time and well executed. This was the definition of a good story, something a powerful person does not want in a newspaper.”

Highly commended: Ashleigh Rainbird – Daily Mirror

• David Jason exclusive: The daughter I didn’t know I had
• David Jason’s daughter shock: I’m tickled pink that he’s my dad
• David Jason’s wife: It’s lovely to embrace David’s daughter into our family

The judges said this was a “strong news story, well written and sensitively landed”.

New Journalist of the Year 

WINNER: Antonia Cundy – Financial Times

• Oxford university stuck with Sacklers as opioid deaths led others to cut ties
• How Crispin Odey evaded sexual assault allegations for decades
• The fishermen

The judges said Cundy’s work was “powerful journalism, exposing unseen truths” and praised her for taking on “the rich and powerful with fearless reporting”.

Marie Colvin Award

WINNER: Bel Trew – The Independent

The judges said: “Marie would have admired Bel’s self-starting courage. Bel is a journalist who has become one of the leading foreign correspondents in the world in recent years. She began her career as a freelance covering the Arab Spring, based in Egypt until she was detained and expelled by the Egyptian authorities for her reporting.

“We particularly admired her steadfast reporting from Ukraine and her excellent feature documentary on the country’s missing war dead put together without the budget of big broadcasters.”

Sports Journalism

WINNER: William Ralston – The Guardian

• The impossible job: inside the world of Premier League referees

The judges said Ralston’s winning work was “wonderful, professional and in-depth reporting of an issue that is growing in massive significance but has previously been given superficial coverage”.

Highly commended: David Walsh – The Sunday Times

• Why Gareth Southgate has chosen to stay as England manager
• How dementia stole my rugby star husband Fergus Slattery
• Caster Semenya: It is right to insist runner suppresses hormones

The judges said Walsh “consistently covers difficult issues in a sensitive and professional manner, always making his readers think – year after year”.

Campaign of the Year 

WINNER: Clean It Up – The Times

The judges said: “Excellent use of data and strong graphics backed up a strongly organised campaign which has made clear progress on tackling a long-standing UK environmental problem.”

Highly commended: The Bruno and Dom project – The Guardian

The judges said: “This was a mighty reporting effort in a noble cause, to ensure that killing a journalist did not kill the story of criminal environmental destruction they uncovered.”

Photojournalism

WINNER: Christopher Occhicone – 1843 Magazine, The Economist

The judges said: “These were challenging images documenting the human cost of conflict, captured with subtlety, empathy and honesty.”

Highly commended: Victoria Jones – Press Association

The judges praised Jones’s portfolio of “impactful, elegant historic images”.

Interviewer of the Year

WINNER: Tom Bradby – ITV1

• Harry – The Interview

The judges said: “This was a scoop interview that has stood the test of time – and will continue to do so for, probably, years to come. Executed under tight deadlines with no editorial control and great professionalism despite the interviewer’s closeness to the subject. This interview made headlines around the world.”

[Read more: Interviewer of the year Tom Bradby: Harry ‘never asked me what questions I was going to ask’]

Politics Journalism

WINNER: John Ferguson – Sunday Mail

• Sturgeon crisis as 30,000 quit SNP
• Fraud cops quiz SNP chiefs
• SNP in crisis: Sex, lies and spin

The judges said: “This was a huge piece of investigative journalism which has made a huge difference to the whole leadership of the SNP and so to Scotland itself and will likely have ramifications for the next Westminster general election.”

Highly commended: Steven Swinford – The Times

• Kwasi Kwarteng flew back to UK not knowing he was out
• Boris Johnson deliberately misled parliament on partygate, MPs find
• Tougher transgender guidance for schools is unlawful, Sunak told

The judges praised Swinford’s “great breadth of stories including one real toast-dropper”.

Business, Finance and Economics Journalism, sponsored by Starling Bank

WINNER: Anna Isaac – The Guardian

• ‘I could barely speak. I felt like a ghost inside my own skin’: the month that shook the CBI
• Tesco chair accused of inappropriate behaviour by four women
• Nadhim Zahawi ‘agreed on penalty’ to settle tax bill worth millions

The judges said Isaac’s CBI investigation “was a real scoop which has had wide-ranging impact. It also required long, and very sensitive, research”.

Highly commended: Gordon Rayner – Telegraph Media Group

• Coutts closed Nigel Farage’s account because he didn’t ‘align with their values’
• Bank chief Dame Alison sat next to BBC journalist night before he tweeted claim about Nigel Farage
• Head of NatWest embroiled in Nigel Farage bank scandal

The judges said Rayner’s work featured “detailed reporting and fantastic presentation and helped lead to the boss of one of Britain’s biggest financial institutions resigning”.

Travel Journalism

WINNER: Sophie Pinkham – 1843 Magazine, The Economist

• Inside the European forest that geopolitics has turned into a graveyard

The judges said this was “brilliant investigative journalism with a kick in the solar plexus. It took headlines, soundbites and government propaganda around immigration and turned into a deeply human story that gets to the heart of the issue”.

Online Video Journalism, sponsored by YouTube

WINNER: Jean MacKenzie – BBC News

• Inside North Korea: ‘We are stuck, waiting to die’

The judges described MacKenzie’s work as “engaging, different and distinct, using a great use of online storytelling techniques to provide a voice for oppressed people in one of the most unreported parts of the world”.

Investigation of the Year

WINNER: Dan Neidle – Tax Policy Associates

• Nadhim Zahawi tax avoidance allegations

The judges said: “This was a determined and forensic investigation carried out in the face of continual legal intimidation.”

Highly commended: Ellie Flynn and Alice McShane – Channel 4/Kalel Productions

• Undercover: Sexual Harassment – The Truth

The judges described this as “culture shifting work which shed light on an important subject”.

Highly commended: Handa Majid, Ben Ferguson, Nechirvan Mando, Jamie Welham and David Modell – ITV Exposure

• The Crossing

The judges described this as “an immaculate piece of film-making which movingly gave a voice to some of the most forgotten and vulnerable people in the world”.

Scoop of the Year  

WINNER: Exposed: How British Gas Debt Agents Break into Homes of Vulnerable – The Times

The judges said: “This was the big scoop around one of the biggest stories of the year, the cost of living crisis. A big story that mattered to people and made a difference to the way things were done.”

Innovation of the Year, sponsored by Google News Initiative

WINNER: Dan Russell, Jenna Thompson and Rachel Gorman – Reach

• WhatsApp Communities

The judges said: “This was pioneering use of a tech platform, which is ubiquitous yet under-used by publishers, to deliver meaningful audience engagement.”

Highly commended: Sam Coates, Joe White, Katie Riley, Tom Larkin, Tom Rayner, Edward Clowes and David Mapstone – Sky News/Tortoise Media

• Westminster Accounts

The judges described this as a “brilliant way of displaying a complex story with huge public interest”.

News Provider of the Year

WINNER: The Guardian

The judges said: “This title has shone a light on under-reported parts of the world and campaigned for social justice and environmental change with its investigations this year. And it has even investigated difficult truths from its own past while delivering a mass audience and achieving financial sustainability.”

[Read more: Guardian to build on ‘direct link’ between supporters and journalism with global growth]

Public Service Journalism

WINNER: Ian Birrell – Daily Mail/Mail on Sunday/the i

The judges said Birrell has “managed to shine new light on the untold stories of victims of the Russian invasion of Ukraine with vivid reporting from the frontline of that conflict.

“He has also shown intellectual courage challenging orthodoxies around coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic and championed the rights of same-sex parents in Italy in the face of a far-right government crackdown.

“His range is incredible and his ability to bring public interest investigative journalism to a mass audience incomparable.”

Journalist of the Year

WINNER: Gabriel Pogrund – The Sunday Times

The judges said Pogrund is a “prolific scoop-getter whose reporting helped topple the chairman of the BBC after exposing murky financial details involving the prime minister.

“He also revealed the presence of a paid lobbyist as a close aide to short-lived UK premier Liz Truss and prompted the resignation of chief whip Gavin Williamson over bullying allegations.

“He has also shown his range with deep reporting on an untold tragedy at the heart of Britain’s secret intelligence community.”

[Read more: Investigative reporting is a ‘masochistic business’ says journalist of the year Gabriel Pogrund]

Women in Journalism Georgina Henry Award, sponsored by Wiggin

WINNER: Rhiannon Davies – The Scottish Beacon

The judges said: “At a time when local news publishers are under real pressure, The Scottish Beacon gives underserved communities a much-needed voice. It is a truly collaborative project that brings community-based outlets together to hold the powerful to account and to help strengthen democracy. Having already achieved an impressive amount in the short time it’s been running, we can’t wait to see what it brings next.”

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News UK has appointed a new chief technology officer (CTO) ahead of Simon Farnsworth leaving for ITV.

Tom Jackson is currently director of data at the Sun and Times publisher and has run a 100-strong team based in London, Sofia and Bangalore developing data science, generative AI, data warehousing and data product development.

He also previously managed the digital development programme at Guardian News and Media in 2011 to 2012.

Jackson will now have ultimate responsibility for the technology infrastructure enabling News UK’s digital-first strategy.

He will lead News UK’s multidisciplinary central technology teams, making sure each division has the right structure, architecture, talent and capability to ensure the delivery of a high-quality experience for audiences and commercial partners.

News UK chief executive Rebekah Brooks said: “News UK is resolutely a digital-first media business and each of our brands has opportunities to expand its audience reach by creating content in every format. Data and technology, alongside our world-class journalism and broadcasting, are the fundamentals of our success today and tomorrow.”

Brooks added she was “certain” Jackson will “unlock even more potential from a brilliant technology team, partnering our brand leaders to execute their successful digital strategies”.

Jackson said he looked forward to supporting The Sun, Times Media and News Broadcasting “as they evolve their digital offers and deliver long term sustainable digital growth”.

What has Simon Farnsworth done in his time as News UK CTO?

Farnsworth has been CTO at News UK since September 2022.

It was announced one year later that he will be leaving to join ITV in the same role in early 2024. He will sit on the broadcaster’s management board.

ITV said Farnsworth will be “responsible for leading the group-wide technology strategy, overseeing infrastructure, tech architecture and innovation as part of ITV’s digital transformation”.

Farnsworth appeared at Press Gazette’s Future of Media Technology Conference in September where he said his tenure in the CTO role was characterised by the technology he threw out.

“When I first joined, there was an awful lot of tech being developed in News UK for tech’s sake. And I came along and [said] well – what’s the point of that?”

As a result of his simplification measures, he said, the company went from delivering 72% of its initiatives each quarter to 83%.

The technology areas the business did invest in under Farnsworth included a first-party data platform, a video platform and core web vitals for website user experience.

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Press Gazette is proud to announce the shortlist for the 2023 British Journalism Awards.

UPDATE: See the full list of British Journalism Awards winners 2023 here.

The event, now its 12th year, recognises great journalism that serves the public interest regardless of the platform it appears on.

The only stipulations are that it must be targeted at a mainly UK audience and must have been first published in the year preceding 1 September 2023.

This year there were more than 800 entries representing every major news publisher in the UK. Thanks to funding from Google, the awards were again free to enter for those in previously underrepresented groups who did not have an employer willing to fund their application.

The 80 independent judges spent three weeks reading and viewing the work submitted and then arrived at the shortlists over three days of jury-style discussions.

They were asked to look for journalistic skill and rigour, revelation and work that has made a difference for the better in society.

Chairman of judges and Press Gazette editor-in-chief Dominic Ponsford said: “I’m deeply grateful to all the judges and those who have taken the time to enter these awards. As ever, the finalists provide an utterly compelling rebuttal to the armchair cynics on social media who deride the mainstream media at every opportunity.

“There are a smattering of star names on these lists whose work underlines why they command big salaries. But there are also many journalists recognised today who work incredibly hard for little pay often showing great courage to stand up against legal (and even physical) threats to provide a voice for those who would otherwise be ignored.

“As politicians look at better regulation of big tech and a fairer deal for news publishers, the British Journalism Awards finalists remind us what we risk losing if they get it wrong.”

Winners for the Public Service Journalism Award, Marie Colvin Award and Journalist of the Year will be announced on the night with no shortlist.

See the shortlist for News Provider of the Year here.

The British Journalism Awards winners will be announced at the Hilton Bankside, in London, on 14 December. Table bookings here.

The shortlist announcement is sponsored by YouTube.

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— Press Gazette (@pressgazette) October 26, 2023

British Journalism Awards 2023 shortlist in full:

Social Affairs, Diversity & Inclusion

Tom Besley, Henry Waterfall-Allen, Guy Davidson, Tobi Kyeremateng, Ben De Pear, Candice Hayden, Daniel Clarke, George Arnett, Andrea Danese MD, PhD, Debbie Ramsey and Leah Green – TOAD/Channel 4

• Konan – Trapped in Trauma

Samantha Booth – Schools Week

• The Great SEND School Robbery
• ‘Disturbing neglect’ as severely disabled children left to go hungry
• How inclusive are mainstream schools?

Tessa Chapman, Katie Goodman, Christina Michaels, Devron Callender – 5 News

• Disabled parents’ children forcibly taken into care

Karin Goodwin, Tomiwa Folorunso and Halina Rifai – The Ferret

• Sheku Bayoh: The Inquiry

Tommy Jessop, Imogen Wynell-Mayow, Victoria Noble, Esella Hawkey, Tom Stone (Hardcash Productions) – BBC Panorama

• Will the NHS Care for Me?

Greg McKenzie, Anna Meisel, Carl Johnston, Patrick Kiteley and Craig Boardman – BBC Radio 4

• Catastrophe at the Academy

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, Vanessa Bowles, Bettina Waked, Jasmine Bonshor, Liza Hodgson, Maria Caramelo, Mohamed Salah, Tim Awford, Rosie Garthwaite and Mustafa Khalili – BBC News

• Queer Egypt Under Attack

Maya Wolfe-Robinson, Joseph Harker, Jonathan Shainin, David Olusoga, Gary Younge, Lanre Bakare, Aamna Mohdin, Courtney Yusuf and others – The Guardian

• Cotton Capital

Features Journalism  

Ian Birrell – Daily Mail/Mail on Sunday

• I’ve seen the fragility of our way of life, how precious is peace and the need for vigilance against tyranny: Over six gruelling months, IAN BIRRELL has reported on the worst of humanity and also the best – in the courage and heroism of ordinary Ukrainians
• Town of the damned: Few places in Ukraine have suffered more than Izyum, where citizens say they now ‘live in caves’. At least 1,000 have died… and, as IAN BIRRELL found, one brave surgeon worked in medieval conditions to save who he could
• The mothers having their names erased from their children’s birth certificates – by the state

Mick Brown – The Telegraph

• Inside the private world of Freddie Mercury, with the woman who knew him best
• Phil Spector told me he had ‘devils inside’. One month later, he murdered Lana Clarkson
• The strange case of the British rugby player who disappeared without a trace

Dani Garavelli – London Review of Books/Sunday Post

• All in Slow Motion: Dani Garavelli on the trials for the murder of Nikki Allan
• Landmark investigation exposes how health inequalities driven by poverty are killing men, women and children in our poorest postcodes
• Climate catastrophe blamed as drought and famine ravage Kenya

Rebecca Hardy – Daily Mail

• I believe the police DELIBERATELY sabotaged the probe into my friend Stephen Lawrence’s murder: His voice rich with emotion held deep inside for so long, Duwayne Brooks talks at length for the first time about the night six racist thugs attacked his mate
• Since losing his 15-year-old daughter in a quad bike accident, financier Ben Goldsmith has tried everything – including mind-bending drugs – to ‘see’ her. Now he says: ‘I feel with every fibre of my being that Iris and I will be together again’
• Even now, I can’t explain why I didn’t leave my high-powered wife who beat me black and blue for 20 years: British man, 46, reveals how he wore make-up to hide his bruises inflicted by prison reform boss wife during regular beatings she doled-out

Simon Hattenstone – The Guardian

• My mother, the troll: ‘I think she lost sight of the McCanns’ humanity’
• ‘The crowd were saying, “Kill him, kick him to death”’: what happened to the people who protested against King Charles?
• The man who walked around the world: Tom Turcich on his seven-year search for the meaning of life

William Ralston – The Guardian

• The impossible job: inside the world of Premier League referees

Rachel Sylvester – The Times

• Sexual assault, crude banter — what it’s like to be a female surgeon
• ‘We are drowning every day’: why Britain’s GPs are quitting the NHS
• Tantrums! Tears! The truth about bullying in Westminster

Jason Watkins, Clara Francis, Matthew Tune, Andrea Byrne, Jonathan Hill and Alexandra Hartley – ITV1

• Jason & Clara: In Memory of Maudie

Local Journalism  

Antoine Allen – ITV News

• Met Police culture of racism and sex abuse left black staff ‘suicidal’, serving officer claims

Justin Bowie, Andy Philip, Alasdair Clark, Marc Deanie, Graeme Strachan and Emma Crichton – The Courier

• Junior doctors blamed for surgeon’s mistakes
• NHS Tayside accused of cover-up over disgraced Dundee surgeon Eljamel
• Dundee victim on Eljamel ordeal: ‘I was in so much pain I begged mum to suffocate me’

Chris Burn – The Yorkshire Post

• My seven years reporting on Sheffield’s tree scandal
• How campaigners saved 11,000 Sheffield trees from the axe after council tried to jail them
• Sheffield Council misled public and courts over efforts to chop down half of city’s street trees, inquiry finds

Colin Campbell – BBC South East Today

• Dunkirk people smugglers
• Convicted child abuser visiting churches
• Vishal: Family cannot forgive police inaction

Dolly Carter – East Anglian Daily Times

• Mums still not getting gas and air at Ipswich Hospital
• Missing children reports in Suffolk on the increase
• Julie Ward: Suffolk brothers vow to carry on murder probe

Sam McBride – Belfast Telegraph

• Crime scene documents show police were using illegal dump
• PSNI anti-corruption officers accused of corruption over £120 breakfasts, mysterious hotel stays and wine
• PSNI data slipped past FIVE key checks

Jennifer McKiernan – BBC Shropshire

• MP Lucy Allan accused of bullying by local ex chair
• Mark Pritchard: Outside jobs and expensed visits eclipse Wrekin MP’s salary
• Rent crisis creating production line of evictions – tenant

Liam Thorp – Liverpool Echo

• Councillors used ‘back door’ to beat parking fines

Health & Life Sciences

Carolyn Atkinson – BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour

• People with eating disorders being offered palliative care
• New approach to treating anorexia

Adam Bychawski – openDemocracy

• Revealed: How ‘unfit’ PPE helped former playboy buy two mansions
• Eating disorder patients restrained by security guards amid funding crisis
• Ministers claim these centres are cutting NHS waits. They’re not even open

Rory Carson, Hannah O’Grady, Aisling Gallagher, Andrew Head, David Howell, Nick Woolley and Karen Wightman – BBC Panorama

• Private ADHD Clinics Exposed

Mark Hedgecoe, James Rogan, Simon Gilchrist, Lesley Shields, Xinlan Rose and John Moffat – ITV Exposure

• The Clinic

Lisa Holland, Rachel Lucas and Rebecca Thomas – Sky News/The Independent

• ‘Treated worse than animals’: Huntercombe investigation reveals decade of mistreatment in care of more than 20 teenagers
• ‘It just felt like they’d given up on me’: 30 new patients of Huntercombe Group tell their stories of what life is like at mental health units
• Closed: Hospital we exposed for treating patients ‘like animals’

Sarah Neville and Amy Borrett – Financial Times

• Global sperm counts are falling. This scientist believes she knows why
• The unexplained rise of cancer among millennials

Crime & Legal Journalism    

Sanchia Berg and Katie Inman – BBC News

• Inside the Family Courts

Emily Dugan – The Guardian

• ‘I started shaking’: Andrew Malkinson on being told he is a free man
• Police and CPS had key DNA evidence 16 years before Andrew Malkinson cleared of rape
• Case review chief was in Montenegro during Andrew Malkinson revelations

Julie Etchingham, Anna Manton, Lizzy Elton, Mike Blair, Laura Caveney-Morgan, Dave Woodyer and Alex Horsfall – ITV Exposure/Multistory Media

• Women & The Police: The Inside Story

Liz Hull and Caroline Cheetham – Daily Mail

• The Trial of Lucy Letby
• Killer Hiding in Plain Sight – The Trial of Lucy Letby: The Inside Story

Roddy Russell, Steve Langridge, Melissa FitzGerald and Henry Rossi – BBC Radio 4/Zinc Media

• Trapped in the System

Mark Townsend – The Observer

• Revealed: scores of child asylum seekers kidnapped from Home Office hotel
• ‘We are seen as less human’: inside Marseille’s districts abandoned by the police
• Home Office secretly backs facial recognition technology to curb shoplifting

Comment Journalism  

Ian Birrell – The i

• ‘No time to be tired’: One year into this hideous war, Ukraine’s people are more determined than ever
• Lucy Letby murders highlight a lethal culture of arrogance, inertia and denial in the NHS
• The imprisonment of autistic adults has become a national scandal, but the horror story continues

William Hague – The Times

• Boris Johnson and Liz Truss should fess up to failure
• Stop smartphones stealing kids’ childhoods
• HS2 has gone from shambles to red alert

Matthew Holehouse – The Economist

• The Conservative Party faces a mutiny in Metroland
• The Conservative Party’s morbid symptoms
• Thatcher, Sunak and the politics of the supermarket

Marina Hyde – The Guardian

• If you are poor, it’s time to ask yourself: have you thought of simply being rich?
• Did Gwyneth Paltrow ski into a retired optometrist? I couldn’t care less, but the farce is unmissable
• After 20 years, here’s why the Post Office scandal is special: the cover-up is happening in plain sight

James Marriott – The Times

• My feeling superior to sport was an own goal
• Don’t follow your dreams, they’ll serve you ill
• Life of grand adventure was a cheap fable

Jane Moore – The Sun

• Schoolkids need hope, not more teachers’ strikes
• Even Fergie would have lost Lineker fight after walkout
• PM’s crackdown on noisy yobs is cause for quiet celebration

Piers Morgan – The Sun

• Minister for the Abolition of Woke: My Manifesto
• Gender terrorists are destroying the rights of women. When will we man up, grow a pair and fight back?
• Thank you for everything, Ma’am. You were greatest Briton. The best of what this country offers

Robert Shrimsley – Financial Times

• Britain is being primed for a ‘hopeless’ election
• How the Thatcherites lost their Brexit dream and their party
• Rishi Sunak’s big idea is a nation that is more like him

Specialist Journalism 

Peter Blackburn and Ben Ireland – The Doctor magazine/British Medical Association

• A tale of one city
• Further than ever
• Symptoms of a crisis

Samantha Booth – Schools Week

• The Great SEND School Robbery
• ‘Disturbing neglect’ as severely disabled children left to go hungry
• How inclusive are mainstream schools?

Max Daly – VICE News

• The True Horror Behind Britain’s ‘Monkey Dust’ Drug Scare Story
• ‘I’ve Lost Everything’: Inside the Hidden World of Britain’s Pakistani Heroin Users
• ‘Killing Is Simple’: Fear and Bloodshed in One of Europe’s Wealthiest Nations

Lawrence Dunhill – Health Service Journal

• Revealed: How trust execs resisted concerns over Letby
• North by North West: Letby trust execs need a fair hearing
• ‘The money is a f**king nightmare’, says NHS England chief executive

Anna Moore – The Guardian

• In 2017 Daria Aspen told police her stepfather had raped her. Why did it take five years to even charge him?
• The killing of Joanna Simpson: she was bludgeoned and buried by her husband. Why is he being set free?
• The suicide of Emily Drouet: ‘She was used and made to feel like nothing’

Dan Neidle – Tax Policy Associates

• Nadhim Zahawi – the whole story
• When I said Nadhim Zahawi owed the taxman, he set his lawyers on me. Now he’s handed over millions
• The SRA stops secret libel letters

Gabriella Swerling – The Telegraph

• Victims of Christian ‘cult’ leader speak out for first time
• ‘I introduced hundreds of young men to him’: US Christian leader’s fears over festival vicar
• The abuse scandal leaving a trail of destruction across Christianity

Ian Weinfass – Construction News

• Didcot seven years on: no answers, no lessons, no justice
• Broken justice?

Foreign Affairs Journalism  

Christina Lamb – The Sunday Times

• The Ukrainian children stolen by Putin and sent to camps
• They danced when Mugabe fell. Now life in Zimbabwe is worse than ever
• She thought she was unshockable, then two castrated Ukrainian soldiers arrived

Jack Losh – BBC Newsnight

• Ukraine’s Siege Runners

Handa Majed, Ben Ferguson, Nechirvan Mando, Jamie Welham and David Modell – ITV Exposure

• The Crossing

Nesrine Malik – The Guardian

• Sudan’s outsider
• The tragedy of Khartoum

Gesbeen Mohammad, Esella Hawkey, Vasiliy Kolotilov, Sasha Odnyova and Mark Summers – ITV Exposure/Hardcash Productions

• Inside Russia: Putin’s War at Home

Stuart Ramsay, Dominique Van Heerden, Richie Mockler and Thomas Sue-Yek – Sky News

• Inside Myanmar’s secret jungle hospital

Steve Rosenberg, Will Vernon, Liza Shuvalova and Anton Chicherov – BBC News

• Ukraine war: The Russians locked up for refusing to fight
• Ukraine war: New year in Putin’s Russia – nothing is normal
• Kremlin pro-war rally report

Max Seddon, Polina Ivanova and Christopher Miller – Financial Times

• How Putin blundered into Ukraine — then doubled down
• How Putin’s technocrats saved the economy to fight a war they opposed
• ‘Stream’ and ‘Torch’: the Gazprom-backed militias fighting in Ukraine

Shahida Tulaganova, Alex Cooke, Alan Hayling, Dimitri Collingridge, Einav Leshetz Lovatt, Vadim Ilkov, Petro Tsymbal, Ben Blakey, Annabel New and Konstantin Kamenski – ITV Exposure

• Children of Ukraine

Technology Journalism, sponsored by Amazon  

George Arbuthnott, Jonathan Calvert, Ed Siddons, Franz Wild and Simon Lock – The Sunday Times/The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

• Exposed: the global hacking network that targets VIPs
• Caught on camera: confessions of the hackers for hire
• How our elite troops became corporate spies for hire

Siân Boyle – The Sunday Times/Daily Mail

• Televisions, smart meters, fridges, doorbells… and even light bulbs: The very real fears Beijing has filled Britain’s homes with gadgets that China can use to spy on us
• Why China doesn’t let its kids loose on TikTok
• Is Big Brother Britain about to become the world’s ultimate surveillance state?

Stephanie Kirchgaessner, Manisha Ganguly, David Pegg, Paul Lewis, Carole Cadwalladr and Jason Burke – The Guardian

• Revealed: the hacking and disinformation team meddling in elections
• Dark arts of politics: how ‘Team Jorge’ and Cambridge Analytica meddled in Nigerian election
• ‘Aims’: the software for hire that can control 30,000 fake online profiles

Katie McQue and Mei-Ling McNamara – The Guardian

• How Facebook and Instagram became marketplaces for child sex trafficking

Madhumita Murgia – Financial Times

• Elon Musk plans artificial intelligence start-up to rival OpenAI
• Google’s DeepMind-Brain merger: tech giant regroups for AI battle
• How actors are losing their voices to AI

James Titcomb – The Telegraph

• Why computer-generated child abuse is the next crime wave waiting to happen
• Flood of AI imagery risks overwhelming Britain’s defences against online child abuse
• ‘A relationship with another human is overrated’ – inside the rise of AI girlfriends

Built Environment Journalism  

James Fransham – The Economist

• Britain’s green belt is choking the economy
• Britain should scrap its green belt

Harriet Grant – The Guardian

• ‘We’re a thorn in their side’: the battle over green space in London’s estates
• ‘Huge blow to families’ as local playground in Wales is torn down
• ‘Most of our children live in flats’: London park boarded up by developers

Jessica Hill – Schools Week

• The ‘ticking time bomb’ leaving schools ‘liable to collapse’
• Councils dawdle on surveying collapse risk building material
• UK public buildings feared to be at risk of collapse as concrete crumbles

Mike Phillips, Ciara Long and Jacob Wallace – Bisnow

• SPECIAL REPORT: Real Estate’s Global Emissions Are Getting Worse. Many In Industry Have No Plans To Improve
• SPECIAL REPORT: Real Estate’s Efforts To Cut Carbon Emissions ‘May As Well Be Doing Nothing’
• SPECIAL REPORT: Regulation Is The Only Thing Pushing Real Estate To Tackle Its Enormous Carbon Footprint

Damian Shepherd – Bloomberg UK

• UK Home Buyers Thwarted by System That Can’t Build Enough Houses
• Squeezed on Housing, Sunak’s Tories Take Aim at EU-Era Water Law
• Foreign Grip on London Property Is Easing on a Cocktail of Risks

Josh Spero and Anjli Raval – Financial Times

• Sir David Adjaye: the celebrated architect accused of sexual misconduct
• David Adjaye steps back from roles over sexual misconduct allegations
• David Adjaye gave names of alleged abuse victims to Ghanaian government

Personal Finance Journalism 

Andrew Picken – BBC Scotland News Online

• Tenant urges others to follow after deposit win
• Paramedics say people are getting ill because their homes are so cold
• Parents’ anguish as Dargavel school 1,000 places short after £75m blunder

Claer Barrett – Financial Times

• Childcare is broken: even a three-year-old could tell you
• The week that wrecked our personal finances
• The price of saying ‘I don’t’ to a friend’s wedding

Lucinda Borrell – BBC Radio 4

• The Wolf of Crypto

Jessie Hewitson – The i

• Inside Gary Lineker’s tax clash with the BBC, which has left him paying hundreds of thousands in legal fees
• High-street banks not giving savers a fair deal, says Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey
• Disabled children locked out of £210m in savings as senior Tories demand trust fund rule change

Callum Mason – The i

• UK universities risk ‘misleading’ students with budgeting advice up to five years out of date
• Mortgage misery set to be as bad as 1980s — with interest rates heading for 5.75%
• ‘My landlord increased my rent by 50%, so I had to leave’: tenants hit by massive hikes to housing costs

Katie Morley – The Telegraph

• ‘My partner was scammed out of £500,000, but is he hiding a deep dark secret?’
• Surprising new twist for autistic scam victim who lost £500,000
• ‘I lost £400k after a NatWest wealth adviser referred me to a Ponzi scheme’

Peter Ranscombe – Scottish Field

• After ‘how to spend it’ comes ‘how to insure it’
• Could mining ever be a ‘green’ investment?
• Art is no longer just for art’s sake

Anna Tims – The Guardian and Observer

• Pensioner forced to ration electricity for a year after receiving £13,000 bill in error
• NHS fines mothers for claiming free prescriptions while pregnant
• Big five UK energy companies turning away new customers

Energy & Environment Journalism, sponsored by RenewableUK 

Chris Cook, Tom Wilson and David Sheppard – Financial Times

• Russia assembles ‘shadow fleet’ of tankers to help blunt oil sanctions
• The unknown Indian company shipping millions of barrels of Russian oil
• How Dubai became ‘the new Geneva’ for Russian oil trade

Gavin Finch, Jason Grotto and Todd Gillespie – Bloomberg News

• Consumers Foot the Bill for Traders ‘Manipulating’ UK Power Market
• UK Power Traders Will Be Banned From Charging Excessive Prices
• Power Firm’s Use of Subsidy Loophole a Concern for UK Lawmakers

Patrick Greenfield – The Guardian/SourceMaterial

• Revealed: more than 90% of rainforest carbon offsets by biggest certifier are worthless, analysis shows
• ‘Nowhere else to go’: forest communities of Alto Mayo, Peru, at centre of offsetting row
• The ‘carbon pirates’ preying on Amazon’s Indigenous communities

Jess Kelly, Owen Pinnell, Carole Bertinet, Mohamed Boteen, Nour Altounji, Inam Talib, Azhar Al-Rubaie, Rosie Garthwaite, Mustafa Khalili and Tim Awford – BBC News

• Under Poisoned Skies

Sam McBride – Belfast Telegraph

• Crime scene documents show police were using illegal dump
• Stormont knows we could be growing food on toxic land, but has chosen to leave us unprotected
• As electricity bills soar, our money is being used to fight our watchdog

Elisângela Mendonça, Andrew Wasley, Misbah Khan, Grace Murray and Josephine Moulds – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

• Collagen craze drives deforestation and rights abuses
• Polish meat giant supplied superbug-infected chicken to UK shelves
• Mines, pipelines and oil rigs: what HSBC’s ‘sustainable finance’ really pays for

Tim Robinson, Joe Crowley and Andrew Head – BBC Panorama

• The Green Energy Scandal Exposed

Rachel Salvidge and Leana Hosea – The Guardian/Watershed Investigations

• Revealed: scale of ‘forever chemical’ pollution across UK and Europe
• Buncefield: the PFAS legacy of ‘biggest fire in peacetime Europe’
• Firm releases almost 800kg of ‘forever chemical’ a year into Lancashire river

Arts & Entertainment Journalism  

Rachael Healy – The Guardian

• David Walliams recorded making derogatory remarks about BGT contestants
• ‘We’ve had to stop people fighting and urinating in their seats’: the ugly new side of theatre audiences
• Was it worth it? Edinburgh fringe acts give their verdict on the festival

Richard Morrison – The Times

• Axing the BBC Singers is a gross miscalculation — heads should roll
• A riverside mess of monstrosities is menacing Westminster
• From pubs to churches, Britain is losing the buildings that glue us together

Ashleigh Rainbird – Daily Mirror

• David Jason exclusive: The daughter I didn’t know I had
• David Jason’s daughter shock: I’m tickled pink that he’s my dad
• David Jason’s wife: It’s lovely to embrace David’s daughter into our family

Gordon Rayner and Dalya Alberge – Telegraph Media Group

• Priceless jewels stolen from British Museum
• Stolen British Museum items on eBay for £40
• ‘The museum treated me like a village idiot and refused to listen’

Katie Razzall, Roxanne Panthaki and Maxine Collins – BBC News

• British museum thefts deeply damaging for a world-renowned institution
• Lawyer for young person disputes claims against BBC presenter
• Donna Langley, the British film executive who wants to send Tom Cruise to space

Josh Spero and Anjli Raval – Financial Times

• Sir David Adjaye: the celebrated architect accused of sexual misconduct
• David Adjaye gave names of alleged abuse victims to Ghanaian government
• David Adjaye steps back from roles over sexual misconduct allegations

Vanessa Thorpe – The Observer

• ‘ChatGPT said I did not exist’: how artists and writers are fighting back against AI
• Exit, pursued by stress: bosses of smaller UK theatres quit in droves
• Steve McQueen voices ‘dismay’ after MPs snub Grenfell Tower film invitation

New Journalist of the Year 

Harriet Barber – The Telegraph

• Gang-rape and genital electrocution: The harrowing war crimes in Ukraine under investigation
• Sex trafficking cases climb in New York City – but NYPD is accused of turning a blind eye

Antonia Cundy – Financial Times

• Oxford university stuck with Sacklers as opioid deaths led others to cut ties
• How Crispin Odey evaded sexual assault allegations for decades
• The fishermen

Sam Leader – ITV News

• Is puppy yoga ethical? The dark side of a growing wellness trend
• Uganda just passed one of the ‘most extreme’ anti-gay bills in the world
• Powerless in Porn: Twitch streamer says ‘there’s no moving on’ after deepfake scandal

Oliver Marsden – The Sunday Times

• Tracker hidden in a skirt uncovers what can happen to our recycled clothes
• Pete Reed volunteered as a medic to save lives in Ukraine. He ended up losing his own
• ‘Kidnappings weren’t great for business’: the Lebanese hotel even wars can’t close

Ruben Reuter – Channel 4 News

• How closing train station ticket offices affects people with disabilities and pensioners
• Local elections: How people with a learning disability are trying to make sure their voice is heard
• How can we meet changing care needs of people with learning disabilities?

Imogen Savage – Financial Times

• The tiny Paris pastel shop that changed art history
• My mother took huge pride in her job as a nurse. Why did that have to change?
• How three amateurs cracked a 445-year-old code to reveal Mary Queen of Scots’ secrets

Lara Spirit – The Times

• Young aides included on Boris Johnson’s Lords list
• Boris Johnson nominates his father for a knighthood
• Billions more spent in UK will count as foreign aid

Tobi Thomas – The Guardian

• ‘Insulting’: shock as NHS uses offensive term for people with learning disability
• Tessa Sanderson: how the first Black British woman to win an Olympic title fought her way to the top
• ‘It’s a badge of honour’: Windrush grandchildren discuss its legacy

Sports Journalism  

Miguel Delaney – The Independent

• Enjoying the Qatar World Cup? Here is the reality hiding in plain sight
• Greed has brought football to the brink of implosion – now the entire structure could collapse
• Sportswashing is about to change football beyond anything you can imagine

Rob Draper – Mail on Sunday/Mail+/MailOnline

• MoS dossier reveals what really happened at the Stade de France
• France must NOT be allowed to host major finals after the Champions League fiasco in Paris, insists leading French fan advocate, who blasts the policing methods used as ‘archaic’ and endangering lives of Liverpool fans
• MAIL SPORT INVESTIGATION: Successive chaotic Champions League finals show UEFA have FAILED to heed their own warnings over crowd safety… so, will it take a tragedy before they change?

Oliver Holt – Daily Mail/Mail on Sunday

• The players will provide the same joy they always do but this World Cup has been defiled
• Craig Bellamy bankrupt: ‘I don’t bet or drink but gambled on people… and lost it all’
• Heartbreaking, inspiring story of the Stockport flag that proves love and devotion endure beyond death

Matt Lawton – The Times

• Culture of corruption at the Olympics: ‘I have cancer. I could die . . . I need the truth to come out’
• ‘I said no to the hooker, so they sent me two’ — ex-official lifts lid on corruption
• Tori Bowie’s tragic final days: Olympian who died with stillborn child

Hannah Jane Parkinson – The Observer/The Guardian

• Game, set, bankrupt: how an addiction to gambling on tennis lost me £40,000
• The new Big Three? Rising trio serve up captivating future for men’s tennis
• Luminous keepers and a nod to Andy Gray: the 2023-24 Premier League kits

William Ralston – The Guardian

• The impossible job: inside the world of Premier League referees

David Walsh – The Sunday Times

• Why Gareth Southgate has chosen to stay as England manager
• How dementia stole my rugby star husband Fergus Slattery
• Caster Semenya: It is right to insist runner suppresses hormones

Campaign of the Year 

Clean It Up – The Times

Earthquake Appeal – The Sun

Eljamel public inquiry – The Courier

Justice for Olivia: Cheryl Korbel campaigns to stop ‘no show’ killers – ITV News

Me Too in Medicine – The BMJ

Paucity of Esteem – The Doctor Magazine/British Medical Association

Save Our Ticket Offices – Daily Mirror

The Bruno and Dom project – The Guardian

Photojournalism

Hollie Adams – Bloomberg UK

Facundo Arrizabalaga – MyLondon

Emre Caylak – The Guardian/1843 Magazine

Victoria Jones – Press Association

Christopher Occhicone – 1843 Magazine, The Economist

Stefan Rousseau – Press Association

Interviewer of the Year

Decca Aitkenhead – The Sunday Times

• Evan Davis on the day he got married — and his father killed himself
• Richard Coles: ‘I met my new boyfriend on EliteSingles’
• Pamela Anderson: The only man to treat me with respect? Hugh Hefner

Josh Baker – BBC

• The Shamima Begum Story
• Shamima Begum: ‘I’m ashamed of myself. I made excuses’

Tom Bradby – ITV1

• Harry – The Interview

Jessamy Calkin – The Telegraph

• A boy named Sophie
• Sex, time travel, dolls… there’s no stopping Ncuti Gatwa
• Sarah Snook on Succession’s final season, the joy of playing a ‘b-tch’ and marrying her best friend

Kathryn Knight – Daily Mail

• My wife kept me prisoner in my own home for four years …while she had an affair with my live-in carer
• All I wanted to know was what my daughters were learning in sex education. Two years and one court case later, I’ve been branded a bigot… and parents still aren’t being told
• My wife gave birth while she was in a coma

Laura Kuenssberg – BBC Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

• Kwasi Kwarteng: ‘More to Come’
• Kate Winslet: Who Should Keep Us Safe?
• Andrey Kelin: Russian Ambassador

Henry Mance – Financial Times

• Dignitas founder Ludwig Minelli: ‘We should have the freedom to choose how we die’
• Boris Becker: ‘I’m still in the game. Just have to play better’
• Nadine Dorries: ‘I’m actually smarter than these guys in No 10’

Amol Rajan – BBC News

• Richard Branson
• Piers Morgan
• Phillip Schofield: The Interview

Politics Journalism

Anushka Asthana – ITV News

• Boost for claimants in Asda equal pay case that could cost supermarket £1.2bn
• Councils face bills of millions of pounds amid hundreds of fresh equal pay claims from women

Katy Balls – The Spectator

• Liz Truss: The interview
• Tories beware: the Lib Dems are back
• The Starmtroopers: how Labour’s centrists took back control

Harry Cole – The Sun

• Inside Tory conference chaos after ministers were NOT told about Liz Truss’ tax U-turn and found out on Sun’s website
• How shortest-serving PM Liz Truss went from 45p tax cut to P45 in 45 days
• HS2 shambles as it’s revealed £60billion high-speed rail project may not even go to central LONDON

Pippa Crerar – The Guardian

• MoJ staff offered ‘route out’ amid concerns over Dominic Raab behaviour
• Sunak is on books of private GP practice that offers ‘on the day’ surgeries
• Budget 2023: Hunt to announce £4bn boost for childcare in England

John Ferguson – Sunday Mail

• Sturgeon crisis as 30,000 quit SNP
• Fraud cops quiz SNP chiefs
• SNP in crisis: Sex, lies and spin

John Stevens – Daily Mirror

• Lockdown video bombshell: The Partygate Tapes
• Braverman new scandal: Fast-track her out
• What a plonker: Rishi’s £10 wine for school raffle after gifting US college $3MILLION

Steven Swinford – The Times

• Kwasi Kwarteng flew back to UK not knowing he was out
• Boris Johnson deliberately misled parliament on partygate, MPs find
• Tougher transgender guidance for schools is unlawful, Sunak told

Business, Finance and Economics Journalism, sponsored by Starling Bank

Ashley Armstrong – The Sun

• Zahawi pays up millions in tax
• House of pain: Bonds leap misery for mortgages

James Hurley and George Greenwood – The Times

• ‘Free money from HMRC’: firms cash in on questionable tax credits
• Eight held over research & development tax credit ‘fraud conspiracy’
• Research and development tax credits to be scaled back after abuse

Anna Isaac – The Guardian

• ‘I could barely speak. I felt like a ghost inside my own skin’: the month that shook the CBI
• Tesco chair accused of inappropriate behaviour by four women
• Nadhim Zahawi ‘agreed on penalty’ to settle tax bill worth millions

Madison Marriage, Antonia Cundy and Paul Caruana Galizia – Financial Times

• How Crispin Odey evaded sexual assault allegations for decades
• Six more women say Crispin Odey harassed or assaulted them

Laura Noonan, Arash Massoudi, Stephen Morris, James Fontanella-Khan and Owen Walker – Financial Times

• UBS agrees to buy Credit Suisse for more than $2bn
• How the Swiss ‘trinity’ forced UBS to save Credit Suisse

Gordon Rayner – Telegraph Media Group

• Coutts closed Nigel Farage’s account because he didn’t ‘align with their values’
• Bank chief Dame Alison sat next to BBC journalist night before he tweeted claim about Nigel Farage
• Head of NatWest embroiled in Nigel Farage bank scandal

Travel Journalism

Shafik Meghji – Adventure.com/Geographical/Intrepid Times

• In search of Britain’s forgotten rainforests
• Transforming attitudes towards pumas in Patagonia
• Llanos de Moxos

Ruaridh Nicoll – Financial Times

• A wild ride to South America’s northern tip
• I went on a £30,000 fishing trip — and didn’t get a bite
• After the gold rush: a 4×4 adventure in the Yukon

John Phipps – 1843 Magazine, The Economist

• The lifeboat crew on the frontline of Britain’s migrant crisis

Sophie Pinkham – 1843 Magazine, The Economist

• Inside the European forest that geopolitics has turned into a graveyard

Tom Robbins, Simon Usborne and Oliver Barnes – Financial Times

• Extreme tourism: ‘If it was safe, that’s not an adventure’

Phoebe Smith – The Guardian/The Independent/The i

• Rewilding Portugal: the valley that waited 400 years for the cows to come home
• Dive like an Egyptian: How one Red Sea resort is cleaning up its act – and the ocean
• The Dartmoor wild camping ban has snatched away access to England’s beauty, so we must fight back

Jessica Vincent – BBC Travel/National Geographic Traveller UK/Conde Nast Traveler

• St James Way: The return of the UK’s medieval highway
• Hiking the Newly Restored Trans Bhutan Trail Is the Best Way to Experience the Country
• The new Sri Lankan hiking trail that leads to the heart of the hill country

Online Video Journalism, sponsored by YouTube

Victoria Arakelyan, Antoine Schirer, Bertram Hill, Mustafa Khalili, Jake Tacchi and Manisha Ganguly – BBC Eye Investigations

• Finding My Torturer

Sophie Braybrook, Matthew Lucas and Mahnoor Akhlaq – Channel 4 News

• Can AI be your perfect partner?

Anna Bucks, Nicolas Pelham, David Alter, Simon Barnes, Lee Mears, Nino Bennett and Tom Stokes – The Economist

• The biggest bank heist in history (and why you’ve never heard of it)

Jean MacKenzie – BBC News

• Inside North Korea: ‘We are stuck, waiting to die’

Paul Morgan-Bentley and The Times video team – The Times

• British Gas undercover: Debt agents breaking into vulnerable people’s homes

Steph Spyro, Dan Dove and Tim Merry – Daily Express

• The Grind: What is the future for whaling in the Faroe Islands?

Investigation of the Year

David Conn and Paul Lewis – The Guardian

• Michelle Mone PPE scandal

Gareth Davies, Bronagh Munro and Rory Tinman – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism/BBC Panorama

• The Sunshine Millionaire: How one man took £130m from British taxpayers

John Ferguson, Hannah Rodger and Craig Robertson – Sunday Mail

• SNP in Crisis

Alan Haslam, Karen Wightman, Joe Plomin, Leo Telling, David Preston, Dickon Hooper, Celia Watson, Oliver Newlan, Jo Heaver and Sahar Alavi – BBC Panorama

• Undercover Hospital: Patients at Risk

Ellie Flynn and Alice McShane – Channel 4/Kalel Productions

• Undercover: Sexual Harassment – The Truth

Tom Kelly and Izzy Lyons – Daily Mail

• Lawyers charging up to £10,000 to make fake asylum claims

Handa Majid, Ben Ferguson, Nechirvan Mando, Jamie Welham and David Modell – ITV Exposure

• The Crossing

Dan Neidle – Tax Policy Associates

• Nadhim Zahawi tax avoidance allegations

Scoop of the Year  

Exposed: How British Gas Debt Agents Break into Homes of Vulnerable – The Times

Lucy Letby: The Doctor Who Helped Catch the Killer – ITV News

Nadhim Zahawi Pays Up Millions in Tax – The Sun on Sunday

The BBC Chairman, the Prime Minister and the £800,000 Loan Guarantee – The Sunday Times

The Coutts Files – GB News

The Lockdown Files – The Telegraph

UBS Agrees to Buy Credit Suisse for More Than $2bn – Financial Times

Innovation of the Year, sponsored by Google News Initiative

Sam Coates, Joe White, Katie Riley, Tom Larkin, Tom Rayner, Edward Clowes and David Mapstone – Sky News/Tortoise Media

• Westminster Accounts

Chris Cook, Polina Ivanova, Ayla Jean Yackley, Adam Samson, Christian Davies, Laura Pitel, Primrose Riordan, Chan Ho-Him and the Visual Storytelling team – Financial Times

• Inside North Korea’s oil smuggling: triads, ghost ships and underground banks
• From ‘paradise’ to hell: How a luxury development in Turkey became an earthquake death trap
• How Russia secretly takes grain from occupied Ukraine

Rhiannon J Davies and Juliana da Penha – The Scottish Beacon

• The Scottish Beacon

Liz Hull and Caroline Cheetham – Daily Mail

• The Trial of Lucy Letby
• Killer Hiding in Plain Sight – The Trial of Lucy Letby: The Inside Story

Lindsay McCoy, Ros Atkins, Marianna Spring, Nick Beake, Alison Benjamin, Harriet Agerholm and the BBC Verify team – BBC News

• BBC Verify

Dan Russell, Jenna Thompson and Rachel Gorman – Reach

• WhatsApp Communities

Visual Storytelling team – The Telegraph

• The Lockdown Files

Women in Journalism Georgina Henry Award, sponsored by Wiggin

Rhiannon Davies – The Scottish Beacon

Steph Dyson and Lottie Gross – Talking Travel Writing

Juliana da Penha – Migrant Women Press

Zoe Paskett – LMAOnaise Comedy

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