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WHEN STARS ARE FORMED A FANTASTIC AWARD, CELEBRATING YOUTH JOURNALISM

RECOGNITION NOT JUST FROM PEERS, BUT FROM LEADING JOURNALISTS ACROSS THE INDUSTRY

#30TOWATCH JUDGES A COMPETITION THAT’S RIGOROUS, THAT’S TOUGH, AND REALLY MEANS SOMETHING

STORIES THAT MADE IMPACT, STORIES THAT PEOPLE REMEMBERED

#30TOWATCH JUDGES FOREWORD

The 30“ To Watch: Young Journalist Awards exist because we believe passionately that young talent is reshaping the news industry, and those journalists’ achievements must be celebrated and rewarded. ” Ian Kirby Head of Strategic Media Unit, Engine MHP

The head of MHP’s Strategic Media Unit, Ian Kirby, reflects on why, despite gloomy headlines, these awards are a reassuring sign that the future of UK journalism is in good health.

The 30 To Watch: Young Journalist Awards exist because we believe passionately that young talent is reshaping the news industry, and those journalists’ achievements must be celebrated and rewarded. After a difficult decade, shaped by the accelerating decline in newspaper circulation, the rise of ‘fake news’ and attacks on journalism by politicians – some parts of the news media industry are beginning to show encouraging signs of recovery. After years of losses, turned a working profit. Regional news’ decline is starting to bottom out, with some innovative editors finding new ways to reach their audiences and a growth in community newspapers replacing older traditional titles. Radio has begun a renaissance, with talented younger reporters dominating high-profile slots that have for too long been held by older, less innovative colleagues, and podcasting enjoying strong growth. The rapid rise at the BBC of Tina Daheley, who is presenting this evening’s 30 To Watch Awards and is one of the most listened-to presenters on British radio, is a great example of this. The Institute for the Study of Journalism reported last year that the appetite for digital news continued to grow rapidly, with more people prepared to pay for news in a format that suited them. The bottom line is this: there is more news in the UK than ever before and it is being consumed in more ways. FOREWORD continued

DIFFERENT BROADCASTERS (INCLUDING PODCASTS)

The entries for this year’s awards reflect In addition, we are grateful to Angus the breadth of the news industry’s MacSwan, Chief Desk Editor – EMEA output, from photo essays on India’s at Reuters, who reviewed entries in the race to become a global economic Foreign and International category; Jo powerhouse to gritty investigations into Willey, a freelancer who has written on knife crime in the UK. This year the 30 To health for a wide variety of titles; Liam Watch judges assessed a record 1,850 Kennedy, Editor of Investments and pieces of work from 395 entrants and Pensions Europe; and Debbie Ramsay, were blown away by the variety and Editor at BBC Radio 1 and quality of work submitted. 1Xtra News. To select the winners, we initially It was a difficult process and all our assessed work against five criteria – winners showed they have huge promise impact, imagination, innovation, for the future and we shall follow their integrity and impression - to determine careers with interest. which entries really stood out. Then our believe journalism is the best career in external judges, all experienced the world. There is nothing else to match journalists, picked the final 30 To Watch, the thrill of seeing the story you have from whom we selected our eight Gold sweated over, or that simply landed in Winners (one in each category). your lap, dominating the news agenda. We are very grateful to our external And it is a job that often carries great ENTRIES judging panel for their help and risk. The death of 29-year-old Lyra expertise in selecting this year’s 30 McKee, shot while covering a riot in To Watch winners. It was particularly Londonderry, demonstrates this. pleasing to welcome four former 30 The murder of a reporter by terrorists To Watch Gold Winners on to our panel. in the United Kingdom is a stark warning They were Peter Campbell, Motor that seeking the truth is not universally Industry Correspondent at the Financial welcomed, but it must continue, without 143 Times; Finola Miles, Senior Producer for fear or favour. ITV News; Tolani Shoneye, freelancer MEN and host of The Receipts podcast; and John Stevens, Deputy Political Editor at the . 252 WOMEN 27 143 25 DIFFERENT MEDIA BRANDS ENTRIES FROM BROADCASTERS REPRESENTED INTERNATIONAL (INCLUDING PODCASTS) PUBLICATIONS

395 1850 ENTRIES IN 30 TO WATCH ARTICLES 8 DIFFERENT AND MATERIALS CATEGORIES IN NUMBERS SUBMITTED FOR JUDGING

ENTRIES 143 MEN 169 8 NATIONAL JUDGES 252 UK TITLES WOMEN RECORD ENTRIES REFLECT RICH DIVERSITY OF JOURNALISM

OUR SPEAKERS

TINA TONY DAHELEY GALLAGHER Tina is the main news Tony has been the Editor-in- presenter on Zoe Ball’s Chief of newspaper Breakfast Show on Radio 2 . since 2015. His illustrious She joined the BBC in 2007 journalistic career also and has established herself includes the editorship of as an accomplished and a presenter working across year as Joint Deputy Editor “ news, sport and current of the Daily Mail. He has Bizarre, brilliant, affairs. She has presented delivered numerous scoops BBC Breakfast, The Victoria throughout his newspaper erudite, brash, thoughtful Derbyshire programme and career. In 2009, while the main BBC News bulletins, Deputy Editor of the and passionate. as well as being a news Telegraph, Tony led the presenter on Radio 1 and paper’s award-winning Radio 1Xtra. Tina is also one coverage of the MPs’ of the regular hosts of the expenses scandal. Today Programme’s ” Beyond Today podcast.

Tina Daheley photo credit: Joseph Sinclair Adam Batstone Director of Strategic Media Unit, Engine MHP

In 2012, when MHP staged the first ever We are deeply indebted to the efforts of Callum Mason revealed the extent to 30 To Watch: Young Journalist Awards, our external judges, who volunteered to which travel and hotel booking websites things were rather different than they give their time to do this. Many of them are misleading customers in his series are . Back then the entries were are former 30 To Watch winners who for Money Saving Expert. chosen by MHP staff, who picked out the appreciate the value of recognising For the first time, 30 To Watch has a names of young reporters and writers young talent and encouraging people Foreign and International category. they admired and who looked like they at the beginning of their careers. Entries were judged by experienced may be under 30 years old. The work submitted is an interesting foreign correspondent Angus MacSwan In the intervening seven years, things have reflection of that we are living of Reuters and MHP Media Director, Keith come a long way. Journalists nominate in. Frequently, those issues can be Gladdis, who reported from around the themselves (or in an increasing number depressing; for example, the proliferation world while at the Daily Mail. They were of cases, are nominated by their peers), of knife crime, particularly among young impressed by Sarah Maslin’s work for the competition is more intense and the people in urban areas. From our winners, The Economist in Latin America, where judging process is far more rigorous. And the work done by Noel Phillips for the she covered issues including El Salvador’s what that means for the 30 journalists BBC Victoria Derbyshire programme or gang problem, and Joe Wallen’s reporting whose work we are celebrating this by Kumba Kpakima for has told for the Telegraph on the abuse of evening is that they can be extremely this story from the perspective of those migrants in Morocco. proud of winning a 30 To Watch Award. living on the margins of society. The UK news agenda in 2019 has been One aspect of the awards that remains Mental health has also been a recurring dominated by Brexit and plenty of entries unchanged – and is a key element of their theme. The scale of the problem facing in the Politics, Financial and Business value – is our intention to identify young people of all ages is daunting – perhaps categories reflected that fact. Matthew rising stars who show plenty of promise, we should take comfort from the fact that Dathan in The Sun chronicled the behind- but are not necessarily well-known taboo subjects are being openly the-scenes wrangling as Theresa May tried names. We are also committed to discussed. Eve Simmons’ article for the to persuade MPs to back her deal. The ensuring that 30 To Watch remains free Mail on Sunday about normalising talking BBC’s Joe Miller exposed the shambolic to enter. Life’s hard enough on a junior to strangers was a great example of contract plan for Seaborne Freight. reporter salary without having to pay an unusual approach to the subject. Ashna Hurynag is a winner in the Business to enter awards. And we are equally And the issue of bullying and harassment and Consumer category for her work for committed to recognising journalists featured a lot among the entries. Laura regional ITV News. Ashna’s investigations working outside the mainstream media Hughes at the and Jen span a variety of topics but our judges – whether that means from trade titles, Frost from Insurance Post highlighted the were impressed with her work, which a lesser-known website or publication, gloomy reality of life for many women in lifted the lid on our plastic pollution or an emerging format like a podcast. junior roles at Westminster and the Bank problem, and asked whether best This year’s awards have attracted a of England. Annabelle Collins lifted the lid before dates could be damaging to record-breaking number of entries: 395 on the toxic culture at Sheffield’s Clinical the environment. in total, from 143 media brands in the UK Commissioning Group in the Health and abroad, ranging from the BBC, CNN Service Journal. Entries for next year’s 30 To Watch: and The Economist, to DIVA magazine, Young Journalist Awards will open in The judges were pleased to see examples GQ, and . early 2020. Follow us on @mhpc of thorough investigations turning into The number of entries is gratifying, great stories – notably, Geraldine reflecting as it does the growing McKelvie on child abuse rings in Telford significance of these awards, but for the , Krystina Shveda’s it also means that our judges had to number crunching for work through a mountain of material – on the state of UK policing, and Serina nearly 2,000 separate articles, videos, Sandhu getting into the weeds of podcasts and photographs. Universal Credit and Pension Credit controversies for The i Paper/inews.co.uk. EXTERNAL JUDGES

DEBBIE FINOLA TOLANI ANGUS RAMSAY MILES SHONEYE MACSWAN Debbie has more than a Finola was gold winner at Tolani is a journalist, Angus is Chief Desk Editor decade of experience with the 30 To Watch Awards digital content creator and (EMEA) at Reuters. He young audiences. She runs in 2017. She is a rising star podcaster who was a joined Reuters from AFP the Newsbeat team of at ITV News, where her Gold Winner in the 2018 in 1984 and has extensive journalists, who provide responsibilities include 30 To Watch Awards. overseas experience news and make sense of weekend programmes and She worked for BuzzFeed across the globe, including the world for the BBC’s the ITV Lunchtime News. before becoming a the Philippines, Central flagship multi-platform She began her journalism freelancer specialising in America, Thailand, youth outlets – Radio 1 and career in local TV and is a lifestyle content, including Cambodia, Brazil, Libya, Radio 1Xtra – reaching passionate advocate for fashion, beauty and Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Spain 8 million 16-24 year olds young people setting out relationships. She is co- and Portugal. In the course every week. on their media careers. host of The Receipts of his career Angus has podcast. covered landmark stories Debbie helped to judge Finola helped to judge including the election of the News, and Campaigns entries in the News Tolani helped judge Nelson Mandela and & Investigations categories category of this year’s entries in the Culture, Guantanamo Bay. for this year’s 30 To Watch 30 To Watch Awards. Entertainment and Awards. Lifestyle category of Angus helped judge this year’s 30 To Watch entries in the Foreign & Awards. International category of this year’s 30 To Watch Awards. JOHN PETER JO LIAM STEVENS CAMPBELL WILLEY KENNEDY John is the Deputy Political Peter is the Motor Industry Jo worked for the Liam is a financial journalist, Editor of the Daily Mail. Correspondent at the Press Association before Editor and Editorial Director He was also a 30 To Watch Financial Times. He won a becoming a freelance working in the area of Gold Winner in 2015 and Gold Award in the 30 To reporter for a number institutional investment and since then he has become Watch Awards in 2013 of newspapers, including pension funds. He spent an established figure in the when he was working The Sun, the seven years at the Financial Westminster Lobby. for the Daily Mail. Peter and Daily Star. Prior to this, Times before becoming During his eight years at has been a long-term 12 years at the Daily editor of Investment and the Mail, he has worked as supporter of 30 To Watch, Express, where she rose Pensions Europe. a regional news reporter helping to nominate to the role of Health Editor. He helped to judge entries and helped to establish promising young journalists Jo is an Ambassador for in the Financial category Mail Online in New York. and reviewing entries for Pancreatic Cancer UK and of this year’s 30 To Watch the past four years. is a member of the Medical He helped judge entries Awards. Journalists’ Association and in the Politics category This year Peter helped the Guild of Health Writers. of this year’s 30 To Watch to judge entries in the Awards. Business and Consumer This is the second year category of the 30 To she has helped to judge Watch Awards. the Health category of the 30 To Watch Awards. WINNERS’ BIOGRAPHIES

BUSINESS AND CONSUMER Gold Award Winners

TOM ASHNA ALEX HANNAH CALVER HURYNAG JANIAUD UTTLEY Senior Interactive Journalist Reporter Investment Writer City Correspondent The Times & The Sunday Times ITV News Investors Chronicle Daily Mail

Tom is one of two data journalists Ashna is a television Alex is the Investors Hannah joined the at The Times & Sunday Times to be reporter serving Chronicle’s industrials Mail’s City Desk in October named as a winner in this year’s 30 ITV News’ regional correspondent. He joined 2017 having risen through To Watch Awards. Tom’s focus is on programmes. the Financial Times group the ranks of a number of consumer issues – since his first job at She joined ITV in 2015 in 2016, first covering other business Which?, he has used data to investigate and her impact was institutional investment publications, including issues and injustices that affect ordinary almost instantaneous. in the UK and France Yahoo Finance, Mortgage consumers. His recent investigation The first thing that hits for MandateWire before Adviser and Workplace examined the way some estate agents you is her outstanding moving to Pensions Savings and Benefits. She and banks are gaming online review attitude. She is always Expert, where he now covers a range of websites to create a false impression of positive and has a ‘can wrote about pensions. issues as City and Finance customer feedback. The judges felt this do’ approach to her work. Before journalism, reporter, most recently was an original approach which relied Ashna’s conversational Alex interned at a big campaigning for a reform heavily on Tom’s analysis of multiple style of reporting makes accountancy firm. of the high street, as well data sources. her extremely engaging as exposing the secretive to watch. tax arrangements of Ocado’s CEO and revealing the scale of Homebase’s debts and its obligations to creditors. CAMPAIGNS AND INVESTIGATIONS Gold Award Winners

SARAH KRYSTINA SERINA ASHNI INGRAMS SHVEDA SANDHU LAKHANI Senior Researcher / Writer Data Journalist Reporter Broadcast Journalist / Which? The Times & The i Paper / Producer The Sunday Times inews.co.uk BBC News

Sarah leads on energy investigations at Krystina is an investigative Serina is a reporter Ashni produces Which?, where she has been part of the data journalist at The covering general news investigative content investigative research team since 2016. Times and The Sunday and the benefits system. targeted at young, diverse Her detailed, in-depth research Times. She is also a She has led the i’s and digital audiences. includes mystery shops and data director at a UK startup coverage of Universal This means seeking out analysis. Recent topics include Glitch Digital, which Credit and Pension original ideas, establishing customer service, smart meters, creates tools to bridge the Credit. She also writes fresh formats and tailoring energy pricing, solar panels and gap between journalism comment and features. versions to suit each social lithium-ion battery disposal. Her and technology. Her work Serina previously worked media platform. Ultimately findings are widely reported on by on declining police as a freelancer for the her films reach audiences other media and used by regulators. numbers in the UK was Independent on Sunday that others struggle to singled out by judges as a and the i paper. engage. Her recent fantastic use of data to exemplary films include make front page news. an investigation into the UK’s illegal skin bleaching market and exposing a temporary accommodation YMCA hostel for the young homeless. WINNERS’ BIOGRAPHIES

CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT AND LIFESTYLE Gold Award Winners

FRANCESCA NAOMI REBECCA CHLOE KENT STREET LARSSON REID Commercial Features Associate Producer Freelance Features Writer Writer / Medical Zeporter CNN Travel Freelance Verdict

Francesca is a digital journalist at Naomi is a freelance Rebecca is a journalist, Chloe is a Medical Reporter CNN Travel. She investigates issues journalist covering commentator and author. at Verdict. She joined the impacting travellers, interviews culture, foreign affairs She writes for a wide company in her first full-time globetrotters from around the world and the environment. variety of publications, journalism role in January and spotlights unusual tourist She worked as a including the Telegraph, this year, with a background attractions. Her lifestyle, culture and commissioning editor Metro.co.uk, Grazia and in lifestyle and culture travel features have also featured in and writer on The , and she writing. She has been The Telegraph, The Independent and Guardian’s global is a regular guest on Good published in Refinery29, Scotland. In 2017, she development network Morning Britain and Sky Grazia and Muddy Stilettos. won the runner-up prize in the and has since reported News. She is the author of Cassandra Jardine Memorial Prize from countries including two novels, Perfect Liars for young female journalists. Colombia, India, Kenya and Truth Hurts. and Cuba. In 2017 she was awarded a fellowship from the International Journalists’ Programme and worked at Der Tagesspiegel in Berlin. FINANCIAL Gold Award Winners

JEN FROST KALYEENA CALLUM Senior Reporter MAKORTOFF MASON Insurance Post Banking Correspondent Senior News Reporter The Guardian MoneySavingExpert.com

Jen’s stories focus on brokers Kalyeena is The Callum works as a and insurtech. Before joining the Guardian’s Banking Senior News Reporter Insurance Post, Jen was a reporter at Correspondent. She for MoneySavingExpert.com the Insurance Times. Her stories this joined the paper last and covers all areas relating year include an analysis of institutional year from the Press to personal finance, ranging child abuse claims which placed Association wire service, from student loans to post- insurers under the spotlight, and an where she worked her Brexit consumer rights. industry-led look at Arron Banks’s way from a business Previously, he worked as a insurance operations. Her blog on reporter role to Chief press agency journalist in sexual harassment in insurance City Correspondent. Edinburgh, covering Scottish remains Insurance Post’s most read That was after working news for regional and standalone piece of content ever. for the London bureau national newspapers. of business broadcaster CNBC, where she gained experience as a live blogger, online reporter and junior TV producer. WINNERS’ BIOGRAPHIES

FOREIGN AND INTERNATIONAL Gold Award Winners

SARAH MASLIN HANNAH JOE WALLEN Brazil Bureau Chief MCKAY Foreign Correspondent / Global The Economist Photographer Health Security Correspondent Reuters Freelance / The Telegraph

Sarah is a journalist for The Hannah is a Reuters staff Joe has been working as a Economist in São Paulo, Brazil, photographer based in foreign correspondent for travelling frequently across Latin London, covering a eighteen months after a career America. She was previously a variety of news, sport and in politics in London. Previously freelancer based in San Salvador, features both in the UK based in Spain and North Africa, El Salvador. The judges have no and internationally. he covered the Mediterranean hesitation in choosing her for the Assignments include the migrant crisis for the Telegraph, Gold Award in the newly created migrant caravan, the Independent, Al Jazeera and Foreign & International category Rohingya refugee crisis, Deutsche Welle. He has for her work on El Salvador gangs, the FIFA World Cup and highlighted cases of abuse and Brazilian politics and the current Brexit. Hannah has been slavery in Mauritania, Venezuela turmoil in Venezuela. awarded a Pulitzer Prize and on migrant routes between for her coverage of the Morocco and the Mediterranean Rohingya refugee crisis – as a result of Joe’s reporting and won Guardian both the UK and EU are Photographer of the reviewing funding policy towards Year 2018. the Moroccan government. After being named Amnesty International’s Best New Journalist, he then joined the Telegraph full-time as Global Health Security Correspondent stationed in Delhi. HEALTH Gold Award Winners

EVE SIMMONS OLIVER ANNABELLE ANNABELLE Deputy Health Editor FRANKLIN- COLLINS TIMSIT Mail on Sunday WALLIS Correspondent Reporter Freelance Health Service Journal Quartz

Eve is the Deputy Health Editor of the Oliver is a freelance Annabelle has worked as a Annabelle is a reporter Mail on Sunday and Co-Editor of the journalist specialising in specialist health journalist at Quartz in London, website notplantbased.com. The past science, technology, for over five years. She has covering early childhood year has seen Eve undertake covert business, healthcare and been a correspondent at education, parenting and investigations into the cosmetic entertainment. His HSJ since 2018 and related subjects. She is surgery and aesthetics industries and writing has appeared in specialises in news and particularly passionate expose unfounded diet and nutrition WIRED (where is a investigations on the NHS about the health and myths in her regular column, contributing editor), workforce and other areas well-being of children Nutribabble. As well as her in-depth The Guardian, British GQ, of health policy. Before and their mothers and features for , Eve The Sunday Times, this role she worked at the impact that spent much of 2018 working on her Evening Standard and business title Chemist and healthcare systems first book, Eat it Anyway, which was Men’s Health. In 2016 Druggist as deputy news have on vulnerable released in January 2019. Oliver won Digital Writer editor. Outside of work, populations. Before of the Year at The Drum Annabelle volunteers a joining Quartz, Online Media Awards, Radio Lollipop, a charity she was an editorial and in 2017 was that is part of Guy’s and St fellow at The Atlantic recognised as ‘Print Thomas’ NHS Foundation in Washington, DC. Writer of the Year’ at Trust which provides care, the British Society of comfort, play and Magazine Editors. entertainment to sick children in hospital. WINNERS’ BIOGRAPHIES

NEWS Gold Award Winners

GERALDINE KUMBA NOEL BILL MCKELVIE KPAKIMA PHILLIPS BOSTOCK Senior Reporter (Features) News Reporter Reporter – Victoria News Reporter Sunday Mirror Sky News Derbyshire Business Insider BBC News

Geraldine was part of the team which Kumba was born and Noel graduated from Bill is a reporter at lifted the lid on a shocking story of child raised in south-east Staffordshire University Business Insider with a abuse in Telford, in Shropshire. The London and first joined with A BA (Hons) in focus on Saudi Arabia’s investigation prompted questions in Sky News as an Broadcast Journalism. domestic policy and Parliament and the abuse is now the apprentice in 2017. After stints in radio, human rights record, subject of a public inquiry. Ever since then Kumba magazines and PR, he and how the country is has dedicated herself to joined the BBC, first in the modernising through ensuring the voices of News Investigations Unit rapid technological the young people in her before moving to BBC advancement. community are heard. Three and then to BBC An example of this is her News, where he covers recent documentary on stories for the Victoria London’s gang crime Derbyshire programme. epidemic, which He was the first journalist received over a million in the UK to gain access views on YouTube. into an illegal Xanax party after spotting the growing trend of young people using the tranquilizer as a “party” drug. His report led to Public Health England issuing a warning about young people “dicing with death” by taking the drug. POLITICS Gold Award Winners

MATTHEW JOE LAURA ASHLEY DATHAN MILLER HUGHES COWBURN Senior Political Correspondent Business & Economics Political Correspondent Political The Sun Correspondent Financial Times Correspondent BBC News The Independent

Matt is Senior Political Correspondent Joe joined the BBC as Since joining the Political Correspondent at The Sun, where he has broken some a journalism trainee in Financial Times as at The Independent, of the biggest political stories 2013, and has since Political Correspondent Ashley has built up an throughout 2018. He was responsible spent time based in in early 2018, Laura has impressive network of for the story that first revealed that Germany, India and the reported widely on contacts across all Theresa May was considering pulling US. His specialism is sexual harassment in parties and has produced the Government’s initial ‘meaningful business and economics, Westminster and the a steady stream of vote’, and undertook an exclusive but Brexit has led him to experiences of many of exclusives. He can point investigation into fake EHIC cards. focus more on Whitehall. the 3,500 parliamentary to a number of inside- Matt previously worked for The Times, He has also worked on staff who work for MPs – track stories on Jeremy The Independent and MailOnline. investigations, including for which she received Corbyn’s Labour Party the Paradise Papers. the Political Journalism as particular highlights. His career highlight award. She was also Before joining The was sparring with named Young Journalist Independent’s Lobby Gary Kasparov over of the Year at the 2018 team, Ashley worked for the intelligence of National Press Awards. The Times, Deep Blue. Before joining the FT, and the New Statesman. she was Political Correspondent at The Telegraph. HIGHLY COMMENDED

Theo Andrew Bianca London Sami Quadri Pensions Age Glamour Daily Mail

Brittany Golob Donna Lu James Rothwell Cravenhill Publishing New Scientist Telegraph Media Group

Sally Hayden Elisabeth Mahase Victoria Sanusi Freelance Pulse Freelance

Richard Holmes Myles McCormick Amy Sharpe BuzzFeed UK Financial Times Sunday Mirror

Anna Isaac Nicholas Megaw Charles Thomson Telegraph Media Group Financial Times Tindle Newspapers - Yellow Advertiser Series Liam Kelly Emily Nicolle The Sunday Times City A.M. Natasha Wynarczyk Freelance Glen Keogh Hannah Jane Parkinson Daily Mail The Guardian

F O R M E R WINNERS

2018 Gold Award Winners

James Phillips Sabah Meddings Jennifer Savin Professional Pensions The Sunday Times Cosmopolitan

Natasha Preskey Isabelle Fraser Nalini Sivathasan Freelance The Telegraph BBC Asian Network

Lucy Alderson Tom Macleod William Turvill Construction News Sky News Mail on Sunday Peter Coulter Sian Boyle Patrick Russell BBC Spotlight Daily Mail Science and Health Producer, ITV News Lucy White Sian Elvin City A.M. Kent Live McKenna Grant Senior Snapchat Editor, Hannah Murphy Symeon Brown The Telegraph Financial Times C4 News Stephen Matthews Morgan Meaker Tolani Shoneye Assistant Health Editor, Freelance BuzzFeed/Freelance MailOnline Rachel Watson Adam Crafton Sarah Graham Scottish Daily Mail Daily Mail Freelance Asa Bennett Alex Wickham Alex Matthews-King The Telegraph Guido Fawkes, GQ Health Correspondent, Bianca Nobilo The Independent CNN Emily Cooke Lewis Goodall Science and Technology Sky News Facilities Council

Jack Homan 5 News 2017 Gold Award Winners

Finola Miles Harriet Line Helen Whitehouse ITV News Press Association Trinity Mirror Jane Bradley Kate Proctor Henry Zeffman BuzzFeed Evening Standard The Times Megan Lucero Katie Morley Timothy Revell The Bureau of Investigative Daily Telegraph New Scientist Journalism Kirsten Jones Tom Payne Thomas Hale Express Magazine Daily Mail Financial Times Martha Kelner Michael Wilkinson Matthew Quinton Daily Mail/The Guardian The Telegraph The Sun Oliver Duggan Aisha Gani The Guardian BuzzFeed News Oscar Williams-Grut Amber Rolt Business Insider Estates Gazette Rachel Coburn Charlie Cooper BBC News Politico Ruje Yasmin Cherry Wilson ITV News BBC News Sarah Biddlecombe Chloe Cornish Stylist Financial Times Simon Peach Clare McDonald Press Association Sport Computer Weekly Hayley Dixon Courtney Cameron Daily Telegraph Helen Ann Smith Daisy Wyatt Sky News iNews F O R M E R WINNERS

2016 Gold Award Winners

Rossalyn Warren Luke Jones Marion Dakers BuzzFeed BBC Daily Telegraph Lee Price Amelia Butterly Sebastian Joseph The Sun BBC Newsbeat The Drum Larisa Brown Jamie Ross Jeremy Cliffe Daily Mail BuzzFeed The Economist Simon Murphy Andy Pearce Patrick Kingsley Mail on Sunday Financial News The Guardian Darren McCaffrey Seb Payne Sam Blackledge Sky News Financial Times Plymouth Herald George Arbuthnott Conrad Quilty-Harper Caroline O’Donoghue The Sunday Times GQ The Pool Tyrone Francis Lauren Probert ITV News The Sun Vicki Owen Phoebe Luckhurst Mail on Sunday The Tab Jessica Hamzelou Ben Riley-Smith New Scientist The Telegraph Luke Lythgoe Lucy Fisher Press Association The Times Tara Mulholland Jamie Clifton Sky News VICE Kate McCann Marie Le Conte The Telegraph London Evening Standard 2015 Gold Awards Winners

Annabelle Dixon Niamh Anderson Martin Jeffries Eastern Daily Press The Sun on Sunday Sky Digital Vincent Mcaviney Chris Berkin Miles Johnson ITV Estates Gazette Financial Times Radhika Sanghani Daniel Binns Dave Lee Daily Telegraph Metro UK BBC News Oliver Smith Ellie Broughton Georgina Leggate The Memo Pulse Good Morning Britain John Stevens Marion Dakers Costas Pitas Daily Mail Daily Telegraph Reuters Paris Lees Neela Debnath Alix Robertson VICE The Independent Funds Europe George Eaton Harriet Russell New Statesman Investors Chronicle Natalie Edwards Kadhim Shubber The Sun on Sunday Financial Times Reni Eddop-Lodge Pandora Sykes Freelance The Sunday Times Style Magazine Hannah Ellis-Petersen Jennifer Williams The Guardian Matthieu Favas Robyn Wilson Infrastructure Investor Construction News Alex Hern Victoria Woollaston The Guardian Daily Mail Nick Barron Deputy CEO, Engine MHP

GREAT JOURNALISM IS THE KEY TO REBUILDING PUBLIC TRUST

The breakdown of trust in the media This is The Networked Age, in which doesn’t simply threaten the future of the industry, it has profoundly dangerous citizens are connected by digital consequences for democracy and social cohesion. Without trusted independent technology. Public deference towards voices, how can the powerful be held to account or polarised audiences find traditional authority is dead – replaced common ground? by a tribal world of insiders and outsiders. The best way out of this situation is great journalism. Leaders are dismissed as mediocrities Distrust of the media is fuelled by a Journalists need the freedom to pursue a – or worse, liars. Hierarchies are growing sense among the public that story and express a contrary view, so that challenged as illegitimate. Expert journalists don’t understand them, serve they cannot easily be ignored as partisan credentials are deemed to be worth them or even like them. Too many are actors. They need to be backed by news less than lived experiences. Facts aren’t trapped at their desks, sourcing stories models that prioritise accuracy over sacred, they are inconvenient. Shared from Twitter and clustered tightly in the immediacy and objective reporting values are more important than London bubble. Journalists are too easily over pandering to one’s base. objective truth. dismissed as detached elitists whose stories and analyses can be ignored. Most of all, journalists need time to foster This is a world that the news media has contacts and explore the real world, so helped create. Too many digital news This might not have mattered that they understand – and are seen to models have incentivised activism and commercially, were that digital model understand – the lives and values of the commentary and at the same time starting to bear fruit, but it appears that people they are talking about. devalued original journalism and the market for social justice activism has investigation. been vastly overestimated. The Guardian’s The Networked Age needs journalists donor-funded model has helped to return who can escape their own echo chambers Ironically, journalists increasingly find it to break even, but elsewhere, the – because the rest of us sure can’t. themselves the victims of this same picture is dire. Vox, Mic, VICE, BuzzFeed tribalism – from conservative US and a host of other brands have burned commentator Ben Shapiro walking out on through VC cash and been forced to cut ‘left-wing’, Andrew Neil, the Brexit Party’s head counts. Nigel Farage giving Andrew Marr a dressing down about BBC bias or Laura Kuenssberg and being targeted by angry mobs on the left and right. Journalists and editors are just one more set of gatekeepers to be torn down. This is The Networked“ Age, in which citizens are connected by digital technology. Public deference towards traditional authority is dead – replaced by a tribal world of insiders and outsiders. ”

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