The Press Awards celebrates some of the best national journalism in the UK – from individual achievements to the accomplishments of entire news organisations.
The awards will be presented on Thursday 21st May 2026 at a black tie event in central London.
The shortlist is as follows:
INDIVIDUAL AWARDS
YOUNG JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
Daisy Graham-Brown - The Mail on Sunday
Euan Healy - Financial Times
Luke Chafer - The Mail on Sunday
Malak A Tantesh - The Guardian
Max Kendix - The Times
HEALTH JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
Eleanor Hayward - The Times
Laura Donnelly - The Telegraph
Phil Hilton
Rebecca Thomas - The Independent
Sam Wollaston - The Guardian
Shaun Lintern - The Sunday Times
PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
Anthony Devlin - Anthony Devlin Photography
Danny Lawson - Press Association
Jack Hill - The Times
Simon Townsley - The Telegraph
Stefan Rousseau - Press Association
Yui Mok - Press Association
NEWS REPORTER OF THE YEAR
David Collins - The Sunday Times
Gabriel Pogrund - The Sunday Times
Josh Halliday - The Guardian
Mark Hookham - The Mail on Sunday
Rob Pattinson - The Sun
Stephen Wright - Daily Mail
CRITIC OF THE YEAR
Alexis Petridis - The Guardian
Andy Miller - The Economist
Catherine Nixey - The Economist
Giles Coren - The Times
Grace Dent - The Guardian
Jay Rayner - Financial Times
Laura Cumming - The Observer
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
Ben Spencer - The Sunday Times
Harry Davies/Yuval Abraham - The Guardian
Kaya Burgess - The Times
Rhys Blakely - The Times and The Sunday Times
Siân Boyle - The Guardian/ The Observer
Tom Whipple - The Times
SHOWBIZ REPORTER OF THE YEAR
Alison Boshoff - Daily Mail
Clemmie Moodie - The Sun
Ellie Henman - The Sun
Felicity Cross - The Sun
Katie Hind - Daily Mail & The Mail on Sunday
Tom Bryant - The Mirror
FOREIGN REPORTER OF THE YEAR
Alex Crawford - Sky News
Anthony Loyd - The Times
Bel Trew - The Independent
Chris Miller - Financial Times
Christina Lamb - The Sunday Times
Liz Cookman
Louise Callaghan - The Sunday Times
POLITICAL JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
Gabriel Pogrund - The Sunday Times
Harry Yorke - The Sunday Times
Kitty Donaldson - The i Paper
Pippa Crerar - The Guardian
Sam Greenhill - Daily Mail
Steven Swinford - The Times
Tim Shipman - The Spectator
ENVIRONMENT JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
Adam Vaughan - The Times
Ben Spencer - The Sunday Times
Costanza Gambarini - SourceMaterial
Jess Staufenberg - SourceMaterial
Phoebe Weston - The Guardian
Tom Parry
Tom Whipple and Chris Smyth - The Times
TRAVEL JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
Annabel Grossman - The Independent
Chris Leadbeater - The Telegraph
David Pilling - Financial Times
Ruaridh Nicoll
Sophy Roberts - Financial Times
DATA JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
George Greenwood - The Times
John Burn-Murdoch - Financial Times
Max Harlow - Bloomberg
Pamela Duncan - The Guardian
Richard Ault - Reach Data Unit
Sam Ashworth-Hayes - The Telegraph
Tom Calver - The Sunday Times
THE HUGH MCILVANNEY AWARD FOR SPORTS JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
Daniel Storey - The i Paper
David Walsh - The Sunday Times
Ian Herbert - Daily Mail
Martin Samuel - The Sunday Times
Oliver Brown - The Telegraph
Riath Al-Samarrai - Daily Mail
Tom Morgan - The Telegraph
COLUMNIST OF THE YEAR - BROADSHEET
Camilla Long - The Sunday Times
Duncan Robinson - The Economist
Fraser Nelson - The Times
Hadley Freeman - Sunday Times
Matthew Syed - Sunday Times
Suzanne Moore - The Telegraph
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown - The i Paper
COLUMNIST OF THE YEAR - TABLOID
Bryony Gordon - Daily Mail
Colin Robertson - The Sun
Dominic Lawson - Daily Mail
Ian Birrell - Associated News
Jenni Murray - Daily Mail
Liz Jones - The Mail on Sunday & Daily Mail
Ros Wynne Jones - The Mirror
SPECIALIST JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
Charles Hymas - The Telegraph
Hannah Furness - The Telegraph
Helen Warrell - Financial Times
Kate Mansey - The Times
Larisa Brown - The Times
Stephen Wright - Daily Mail
Tom Pettifor - The Mirror
SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
Bradley Ormesher - The Times
Danny Lawson - Press Association
Mike Egerton - Press Association
Tom Jenkins - The Guardian
CARTOONIST OF THE YEAR
Ben Jennings - The Guardian
Harvey Rothman - The Spectator
Matt Pritchett - The Telegraph
Morten Morland - The Sunday Times
Nick Newman - The Sunday Times
Peter Brookes - The Times
Pugh - Daily Mail
BUSINESS AND FINANCE JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
Alex Ralph - The Times
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard - The Telegraph
Ed Conway - Sky News
James Hurley - The Times
Rob Davies - The Guardian
Stephen Foley - Financial Times
FEATURE WRITER OF THE YEAR - BROADSHEET
Arkady Ostrovsky - 1843 and The Economist
John Phipps - 1843/The Economist and the Financial Times
Liz Cookman
Olivia Acland
Simon Hattenstone - The Guardian
Wendell Steavenson - 1843/The Economist
FEATURE WRITER OF THE YEAR - TABLOID
David Jones - Daily Mail
Guy Adams - Daily Mail
Ian Birrell - Associated News
Jane Fryer - Daily Mail
Oliver Harvey - The Sun
Richard Kay - Daily Mail
Richard Pendlebury - Daily Mail
INTERVIEWER OF THE YEAR - BROADSHEET
Camilla Tominey - The Telegraph
Charlotte Edwardes - The Guardian
Decca Aitkenhead - The Sunday Times
Donald McRae - The Guardian
Henry Mance - Financial Times
Janice Turner - The Times
Simon Hattenstone - The Guardian
INTERVIEWER OF THE YEAR - TABLOID
Clemmie Moodie - The Sun
Daniel Warburton - The Mirror
Frances Hardy - Daily Mail
Helen Carroll - Daily Mail
Katie Hind - Daily Mail & The Mail on Sunday
TEAM AWARDS
INVESTIGATION OF THE YEAR
Andrew & Epstein - The Mail on Sunday
Dying for gold: who killed the miners of Buffelsfontein? - 1843/The Economist
Epstein’s Enduring Ties to the British Establishment - Bloomberg
Ministry of Defence superinjucton after Afghan data breach - The Times
Pipeline: Left to Die - Daily Mail
The Beast of Birkenhead - Daily Mail & The Mail on Sunday
The Secret Afghan Airlift - Daily Mail
The Tyre Scandal - SourceMaterial and BBC
SCOOP OF THE YEAR
Diane Taylor on one-in, one-out - The Guardian
Downfall of the Yorks - The Mail on Sunday
Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty - The Telegraph
Russia’s secret war in UK waters by Harry Yorke - The Sunday Times
Secret Afghan Airlift - Daily Mail
Ukraine's Stolen Children - The i Paper
NEWS WEBSITE OF THE YEAR
Bloomberg UK
Financial Times
The Guardian
The Sun
The Telegraph
The Times and The Sunday Times
NEWS PODCAST OF THE YEAR
Bed of Lies: Conflict - The Telegraph
Missing in the Amazon - The Guardian
Pipeline: Left to Die - Daily Mail
The Global Jigsaw - BBC Monitoring
The Poppy Day Bomb - The Times and The Sunday Times
Ukraine: The Latest - The Telegraph
Untold: Toxic Legacy - Financial Times
BEST AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT INITIATIVE OF THE YEAR
App redesign - The Guardian
Deep Dive - Daily Mail
Frontline - Daily Mail
Live Audio Q&A Tool - Bloomberg
London Centric Newsletter - Centric Publishing
Shorts' - The i Paper
Tactics Exposed - The Sun
DAILY NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR
Daily Express
Daily Mail
The Daily Telegraph
The Guardian
The i Paper
The Sun
The Times
FRONT PAGE OF THE YEAR - BROADSHEET
The Guardian
The Guardian - David Teather
The Guardian / Clare Margetson
The Sunday Telegraph
The Sunday Times
The Times
FRONT PAGE OF THE YEAR - TABLOID
Daily Express
The Mail on Sunday
The Mail on Sunday
The Mail on Sunday
The Sun
The Sun on Sunday
SUPPLEMENT OF THE YEAR
1843 Summer Issue - The Economist
Britain's 1,000 Unsolved Murders - The Mirror
Femail Magazine - Daily Mail
FT Weekend Magazine - Financial Times
Saturday Magazine - The Guardian
Style Magazine - The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times Magazine - The Sunday Times
The Times Magazine - The Times
CAMPAIGN OF THE YEAR
Brick By Brick - The Independent
Give Us Our Last Rights - Express
Hannah Summers and Louise Tickle (as Freelancers), Transparency in the Family Courts
Save Britain's Rivers - The i Paper
Vaccine Crisis Campaign - The Sunday Times
EXCELLENCE IN DIVERSITY AWARD
Telegraph Women's Sport - The Telegraph
The Guardian, The Long Wave - The Guardian
‘Island of Strangers’ video, online and print series - The Mirror
ORGANISATIONS AWARD
DAILY NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR
Daily Express
Daily Mail
The Daily Telegraph
The Guardian
The i Paper
The Sun
The Times
SUNDAY NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR
The Mail on Sunday
The Sun on Sunday
The Sun
The Sunday Telegraph
The Telegraph
The Sunday Times
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