Paul Foot Award
Summary
The Paul Foot Award is an award given for investigative or campaigning journalism, set up by The Guardian and Private Eye in memory of the journalist Paul Foot, who died in 2004.The award, which was first given in 2005, is for material published in print or online during the previous year. The prize fund totals £10,000, with £5,000 given to the winner and £1,000 to each of five runners-up.John Sweeney of the Daily Mail won the first prize in 2005, and David Harrison picked up the 2006 award for his investigation into sex trafficking in Eastern Europe published in The Sunday Telegraph. The 2007 award was shared by Deborah Wain, Doncaster Free Press and by The Guardian's David Leigh and Rob Evans.
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Media Monkey: Press awards, Susanna Reid, AA Gill and Mail Online
✒Collecting the digital gong at the Press awards on Thursday, Mail Online's editor Martin Clarke further enhanced his status as journalism's man you love to hate. Boos greeted his leering remark to the event's presenter, Susanna Reid, that she "didn't look pleased to announce [Mail Online's win] because she has graced our sidebar of … no, we don't call it the sidebar of shame.
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Andrew Norfolk of the Times wins Paul Foot award
Yorkshire Post's Rob Waugh and Daily Mail's Stephen Wright also win prizes at event celebrating investigative journalism.
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Paul Foot award names shortlist of eight campaigns by journalists | Media Monkey
Eight campaigns are on the shortlist for the Paul Foot award, set up by Private Eye and the Guardian in Foot's memory: Tom Bergin, Thomson Reuters (for reporting on tax avoidance by Starbucks); Jonathan Calvert, Heidi Blake, Sunday Times (ex-generals lobbying for MoD contracts); Ted Jeory, Trial by Jeory blog (politics in one London borough); Alexi Mostrous, Fay Schlesinger, the Times (tax avoidance schemes); Claire Newell, Graeme Paton, Holly Watt and Robert Winnett, Daily Telegraph (exam boards); Andrew Norfolk, the Times (sexual exploitation of teenage girls); Rob Waugh, Yorkshire Post (scandals involving local police and Acpo); and Stephen Wright, Daily Mail (15 years' coverage of the Stephen Lawrence case).
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#Podcast – Pursuing the issue: Lessons in campaigning journalism
From regional newspapers fronting campaigns on local issues to national press, this week’s podcast looks at some of the approaches taken by those experienced in campaigning journalism, and hears about different strategies as well as how to use petition sites such as Change. org to research campaigns and gather public support.
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Camilla Cavendish moves to Sunday Times
Times's leader writer and associate editor to become columnist at weekly, as comment editor Anne Spackman leaves daily.
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Investigative journalism award open for entries
An annual award which aims to recognise the best investigative and campaigning journalism in the UK has opened for entries. The Paul Foot Award was. . .
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Paul Foot Award for campaign journalism opens to entries
The award, which is now in its eighth year, was set up by Private Eye and the Guardian in memory of investigative journalist Paul Foot.
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Alan Rusbridger and Nick Davies to receive Media Society award
Alan Rusbridger, editor of the Guardian, and Nick Davies, the journalist who uncovered the extent of phone hacking at the News of the World, are to be this year’s recipients of the Media Society award.
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Austin loses out to Davies for Paul Foot Award
Phone hacking expose wins journalism prize.
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Nick Davies wins Paul Foot award for hacking exposé
Guardian reporter Nick Davies received the Paul Foot award for investigative journalism for a series of stories that helped expose the depth of phone hacking conducted by the News of the World.
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