LONGLISTS ANNOUNCED: THE FOR JOURNALISM 2017 Embargoed until 00:00HRS, Thursday 16th March 2017

Longlists for the Orwell Prize for Journalism 2017, Britain’s most prestigious prize for political writing, were announced today.

 At a time when ’s name has returned to the heart of political discourse, the Orwell Prize judges select the year’s best political journalism  14 journalists longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Journalism  List includes comment and reportage, from Economist editor Zanny Minton Beddoes to ’s migration correspondent Patrick Kingsley  Six new names, alongside five former Orwell Prize shortlistees and three longlistees, are longlisted

Entrants submitted a maximum of six articles, and are listed alongside the titles written for in their entries.

The Longlist for the Orwell Prize for Journalism 2017 is;

 Ian Birrell (, Mail on Sunday, The i Paper/, The Guardian)  Rosie Blau (The Economist)  Carole Cadwalladr ()  Aditya Chakrabortty (The Guardian)  Nick Cohen (Standpoint, The Observer)  John Harris (The Guardian)  David Hayes (Inside Story)  Patrick Kingsley (The Guardian, The Observer)  Anthony Lloyd (The Times, The New Statesman)  Zanny Minton Beddoes (The Economist)  (The Spectator, The Sunday Times)  Sarah O’Connor ()  Fintan O’Toole (The Irish Times, The Guardian, The Observer)  Paul Wood (The Spectator, Harper’s) The judges for the Orwell Prize for Journalism 2017 are Dame Liz Forgan, Alan Little and former winner of the Orwell Prize .

Shortlists for the Orwell Prize for Journalism will be announced at a special lecture with Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson on Monday 15th May 2017, along with the Orwell Prizes for Books and for Exposing Britain’s Social Evils. The winner of each £3000 prize will be announced at a ceremony during UCL’s Festival of Culture on Thursday 8th June 2017.

Previous winners of the Orwell Prize for Journalism include Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, and Andrew Norfolk. The Orwell Prize for Journalism 2016 was shared by Iona Craig (freelance) and Gideon Rachman (Financial Times).

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1. The Orwell Prize is Britain’s most prestigious prize for political writing and a registered charity (number 1161563), providing free cultural events and resources for the public benefit. Every year, three prizes are awarded to the work which comes closest to George Orwell’s ambition ‘to make political writing into an art’: the Orwell Prize for Books, Journalism and Exposing Britain’s Social Evils. 2. The Prize was founded by the late Professor Sir in its present form in 1993, awarding its first prizes in 1994. The Prize is supported by Political Quarterly, (Orwell’s son) and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. 3. The Orwell Prize is based at UCL’s Institute of Advanced Studies. For more information about the Institute of Advanced Studies and its activities, please see https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies 4. The Orwell Prize for Britain’s Social Evils 2017 is for work published in the calendar year 2016. For full details and rules of entry please see our website. 5. The Orwell Prize for Journalism 2017 received 82 entries. 32% of entries were women. 29% of the longlisted entrants are women. 6. Each winner receives £3000 and a trophy designed and made by students at Goldsmiths, University of London. 7. For further information, please contact Jeremy Wikeley at [email protected] or call on 020 3108 1618