The criteria for the British Journalism Awards is recognising work that is revelatory, has an impact, displays journalistic skill and rigour and serves the public interest, says Press Gazette.
This year’s winners will be announced in a ceremony at the London Hilton Park Lane on Thursday 15 December.
Press Gazette editor-in-chief and chairman of the judges Dominic Ponsford said: “The judges had an incredibly tough time deciding who should make it through to the shortlists. With 50 entries in some categories, even making it to a shortlist of ten is an amazing achievement.
“These finalists provide an inspiring reminder of why we should all be proud to be part of the British journalism industry. They join the greats of our business, a pantheon of heroes who have changed the world for the better through honest journalism.”
Winners for Women in Journalism’s Woman of the Year and Georgina Henry Award, plus the Public Service Award, Marie Colvin Award and Journalist of the Year will be announced on the night with no shortlist.
The shortlist for News Provider of the Year will be revealed nearer the event.
SOCIAL AFFAIRS, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION JOURNALISM
- Ben Hunte – Vice World News
- Carolyn Atkinson – BBC Radio 4
- Celestina Olulode – BBC News
- Chi Chi Izundu, Ruth Evans, Alexandra Topping and Aamna Mohdin – BBC News and The Guardian
- Hannah Al-Othman – The Sunday Times
- Lou Martin, Phill Edwards and Ed Thomas – BBC News
- Nicola Kelly – The Guardian and Tortoise Media
- Paul Brand, Nathan Lee, Mark Jordan, Delilah Jeary and Selina Julien – ITV Tonight
- Saba Salman – Tortoise Media and Byline Times
FEATURES JOURNALISM
- Amy-Clare Martin – Daily Mirror
- David Jones – Daily Mail
- Ian Birrell – Daily Mail/Mail on Sunday
- Isobel Thompson – The Guardian/The Economist’s 1843 magazine
- Lizzie Parry – The Sun
- Megan Agnew – The Sunday Times
- Simon Hattenstone – The Guardian
- Sirin Kale – The Guardian
- Tom Lamont – New Statesman, The Guardian and GQ
- Zoe Chamberlain – BirminghamLive
LOCAL JOURNALISM
- Antoine Allen – ITV News London
- Charles Thomson and Tom Bristow – Archant
- Jane Haynes – BirminghamLive/Birmingham Mail
- Jeanette Oldham – BirminghamLive
- Martin Williams – The Herald/Herald on Sunday
- Patrick Fee, Jennifer O’Leary, Chris Thornton and Gwyneth Jones – BBC NI Spotlight
- Sam McBride – Belfast Telegraph
HEALTH AND LIFE SCIENCES JOURNALISM
- Andrew Gregory – The Guardian
- Charlie Mole, Rahil Sheikh, Jacqui Wakefield, Sam Holder, Galen Reich, Leo Telling and Karen Wightman – BBC Panorama
- Emily Townsend – Health Service Journal
- Rebecca Thomas – The Independent
- Rosa Furneaux, Samuel Horti, Olivia Goldhill, Samuel Lovett, Madlen Davies and Chrissie Giles – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, The Independent and The Daily Telegraph
- Ruth Green, Harriet Agerholm, Dominic Hughes, Brijesh Patel, Jenny Kumah, Libby Rogers, Eve Mattison, Leah Dunderdale-Smith and Ellie Butler – BBC News
- Shaun Lintern – The Sunday Times
- Tulip Mazumdar, Gabriella O’Donnell, James Anderson, Joshua Falcon and Rachel Price – BBC News
CRIME AND LEGAL AFFAIRS JOURNALISM
- Fiona Hamilton – The Times
- George Odling – Daily Mail
- Imogen Wynell-Mayow, Rachel Lob-levyt, Esella Hawkey, Lesley Bonner and Joanna Potts – Channel 4 and Hardcash Productions
- Linly Lin, Stefania Spezzati and Elisa Martinuzzi – Bloomberg News
- Maeve McClenaghan, Charles Boutaud, Eve Livingston and Emiliano Mellino – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
- Rebecca Coxon and Anna Hall – BBC Panorama
COMMENT JOURNALISM
- Aditya Chakrabortty – The Guardian
- Camilla Long – The Sunday Times
- Cathy Newman – The Independent
- Deborah James – The Sun
- Javier Blas – Bloomberg Opinion
- Matthew Syed – The Sunday Times
- Robert Hutton – The Critic
- Ros Wynne-Jones – Daily Mirror
SPECIALIST JOURNALISM
- Anna Fazackerley – The Observer
- Barnie Choudhury – Eastern Eye
- Carolyn Wickware – The Pharmaceutical Journal
- John Burn-Murdoch – Financial Times
- Kate Mansey – Mail on Sunday
- Madlen Davies – British Medical Journal
- Marianna Spring – BBC News
FOREIGN AFFAIRS JOURNALISM
- Alex Crawford – Sky News
- Christina Lamb – The Sunday Times
- Deborah Haynes – Sky News
- Eamonn Matthews, Ramita Navai and Karim Shah – ITV Exposure and Quicksilver Media
- Hannah O’Grady, Richard Bilton, Andrew Head, Séamas McCracken, Rory Tinman, Karen Wightman, Farhad Mohammad, Ahmad Naveed Nazari, Richard Cookson and Murray Jones – BBC Panorama
- Ksenia Keleberda and Yuliia Manukian – The Observer
- Mani Benchelah and Patrick Tombola – Channel 4 Dispatches and Basement Films
- Sarah Collinson, David Henshaw, David Alter, Ksenia Barakovskaya and Sasha Odynova – ITV Exposure and Hardcash Productions
- Stuart Ramsay – Sky News
- Tanya Stephan, Rachel Cumella, Brian Woods, Anne Morrison, Ella Newton, Paddy Garrick and Tom Giles – ITV and True Vision/Nevision
TECHNOLOGY JOURNALISM
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- Harry Davies, Simon Goodley, Felicity Lawrence, Paul Lewis and Lisa O’Carroll – The Guardian
- Jasper Jackson, Crofton Black, Ryan Gallagher, Kathleen Hall, Lucy Kassa and Zecharias Zelalem – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism and Bloomberg News
- Karl Flinders – Computer Weekly
- Morgan Meaker – Wired UK
- Shanti Das – The Observer
- Yinka Bokinni, Tom Porter, Katie Rice, Nicki Chandris and Nick Godwin – Channel 4 Dispatches and Britespark Films
BUILT ENVIRONMENT JOURNALISM
- Jack Simpson – Inside Housing
- Martina Lees – The Sunday Times
- Oliver Wainwright – The Guardian
- Peter Apps – Inside Housing
- Rowan Moore – The Observer
PERSONAL FINANCE JOURNALISM
- Harriet Clugston – NationalWorld
- Imogen Tew – The Sunday Times
- Peter Ranscombe – Scottish Field
- Rachel Rickard Straus – Mail on Sunday
- Richard Butchins, Victoria Noble, David Henshaw, Melanie Quigley and Ian Lloyd – Channel 4 Dispatches and Hardcash Productions
- Tom Kelly, Victoria Bischoff and Miles Dilworth – Daily Mail
ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT JOURNALISM
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- Cam Simpson, Akshat Rathi and Saijel Kishan – Bloomberg News
- Damian Carrington – The Guardian
- Liam McDougall, Samantha Poling, Calum Grewar and Shelley Jofre – BBC Scotland
- Martin Williams, Lucas Amin and Gabriel Pogrund – openDemocracy and The Sunday Times
- Rachel Salvidge – The Guardian
- Simon Evans – Carbon Brief
ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT JOURNALISM
- Amy Hitchcock – Sky News
- Ashley Mears – The Economist’s 1843 magazine
- Carolyn Atkinson – BBC Radio 4 Front Row
- Kate Maltby – The Sunday Times and The Jewish Chronicle
- Laura Armstrong – The Sun
- Neil Munshi – Financial Times
- Stuart McGurk – The House
NEW JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
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- Antonia Cundy – The i/Sunday Times/Guardian
- Emily Braeger – Daily Express
- Imogen Tew – The Sunday Times
- Isaan Khan – Daily Mail
- Molly Blackall – The i
- Natasha Livingstone – Mail on Sunday
- Noa Hoffman – The Sun
- Sarah Bowdidge – BBC Wales
SPORTS JOURNALISM
- Ian Herbert – Daily Mail
- Joey D’Urso – The Athletic
- Matt Lawton – The Times
- Nick Harris – Mail on Sunday
- Nik Simon – Mail on Sunday
- Rob Draper – Mail on Sunday
- Suzanne Wrack – The Guardian
CAMPAIGN OF THE YEAR
Sponsored by Newsworks
- A scandal worse than thalidomide – The Sunday Times
- End This Injustice – Daily Express
- Give It Back – The Sun
- Mail Force – Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday
- Save LV – Daily Mail
- Transparency in British public life – openDemocracy
- White Lies – CNN
PHOTOJOURNALISM
- Ed Ram – The Guardian
- Hannah Mckay – Reuters
- Jack Hill – The Times
- Julian Simmonds – The Daily Telegraph
- Peter Jordan – The Sun
- Ron Haviv – The Economist’s 1843 magazine
- Stefan Rousseau – PA Media
INTERVIEWER OF THE YEAR
- Alice Thomson – The Times
- Amy Sharpe – Sunday Mirror/Sunday People
- Henry Mance – Financial Times
- Josh Glancy – The Sunday Times
- Mathilda Mallinson and Helena Wadia – Media Storm
- Matt Roper – Daily Mirror
- Stephen Wright – Daily Mail
- Tim Adams – The Observer
POLITICS JOURNALISM
- Anna Isaac – The Independent
- George Parker – Financial Times
- Marina Hyde – The Guardian
- Mishal Husain, Justin Webb, Nick Robinson, Owenna Griffiths and Ione Wells – BBC Radio 4 Today Programme
- Paul Brand, Amber De Botton, Imogen Barrer and Nathan Lee – ITV News
- Pippa Crerar – The Mirror
- Rowena Mason – The Guardian
- Steven Swinford – The Times
BUSINESS, FINANCE AND ECONOMICS JOURNALISM
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- Andy Verity and Sarah Bowen – BBC Radio 4
- Hal Hodson, Soumaya Keynes and Duncan Robinson – The Economist
- James Oliver, Steve Swann, Nassos Stylianou and Will Dahlgreen – BBC News/Panorama
- Mobeen Azhar, Stefan Mattison, Leo Fawkes, Sam Courtney Guy and Jez Lee – BBC Three
- Ruth Sunderland and the City team – Daily Mail/Mail on Sunday
- Stephen Morris – Financial Times
- Victoria Hollingsworth, Matt Chapman, Tom Wright and Malcom Rees – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, Novel and Auddy
TRAVEL JOURNALISM
- James Draven – Which? Travel
- Jamie Lafferty – The Sunday Times, Financial Times and National Geographic Traveller
- Julia Buckley – CNN
- Phoebe Smith – The Guardian
- Shafik Meghji – JRNY, The Author and Wanderlust
- Simon Calder – The Independent
INVESTIGATION OF THE YEAR
- Ellie Flynn, Ben Ryder, George Waldrum, Joanna Humphreys, Luke Mendham, Doug Howarth and Jenny Smith – Channel 4 Dispatches
- Gabriel Pogrund, Dipesh Gadher, Roya Nikkhah and Katherine Faulkner – The Sunday Times
- Gareth Davies – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
- Hannah O’Grady, Richard Bilton, Andrew Head, David Howell, Séamas McCracken, Rory Tinman, Karen Wightman, Farhad Mohammadi, Ahmad Naveed Nazari and Murray Jones – BBC Panorama
- James Oliver, Rory Tinman, Nassos Stylianou, Will Dahlgreen, Leila Haddou, Charles Young, Richard Bilton, Andy Head, Steve Swann, Harry Davies, Simon Goodley, Luke Harding, Juliette Garside, Paul Lewis, Karen Wightman and Laura Burns – BBC Panorama and The Guardian
- Paul Brand, Amber De Botton, Nathan Lee and Imogen Barrer – ITV News
- Susie Coen – Daily Mail
SCOOP OF THE YEAR
- Boris Johnson ‘broke Covid lockdown rules’ with Downing Street parties at Xmas – Daily Mirror
- Charles accepted €1m cash in suitcase from sheikh – The Sunday Times
- Downing Street partied as Queen and country mourned death of Prince Philip – Daily Telegraph
- Downing Street partied as Queen and country mourned death of Prince Philip – Telegraph front page story
- Video Leaked to ITV News Shows Downing Street Staff Joking About Christmas Party – ITV News
- Threatened with death, and a riot over inhumane conditions Inside Russia’s filtration camps for Ukrainians – The i
- Tory whip Chris Pincher RESIGNS after ‘groping 2 men’ & claims he ‘drank too much’ – but will remain as an MP – The Sun
INNOVATION OF THE YEAR
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- Closed Doors Investigating Evictions – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
- Last Man Standing – The Times and The Sunday Times
- OSINT in Ukraine – Sky News
- Eco-Bot.Net
- Ukraine The latest – The Telegraph
- Visual storytelling team – Financial Times
JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
Sponsored by Camelot
Winner to be announced at the event.
NEWS PROVIDER OF THE YEAR
Shortlist to be announced nearer the event.
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