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Winners of British Journalism Awards announced
03.12.14
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by Jessie Sampson
Journalists from The Times, The Sunday Times, The Independent, The Mail on Sunday, The Telegraph, and the Guardian all win awards at Press Gazette's British Journalism Awards.
Journalist of the year went to The Times'
Andrew Norfolk for his long-running investigation into child abuse. Judges said that he "stood out as a magnificent example of what can be achieved by an ordinary reporter" and that his investigation, "which began with a front page story in January 2011 and culminated in the Jay report published in August this year" demonstrates that "sometimes journalists can step in when police, local and central government have failed".
Anthony Loyd, also from The Times, won the Marie Colvin Award in recognition of his 25 year career covering war zones. The judges said: "Like Marie Colvin, Anthony Loyd has risked his life to report on the unfolding humanitarian disaster in Syria. Earlier this year he, along with photographer Jack Hill, were kidnapped while returning to Turkey from a reporting assignment in Syria. They were badly beaten and Loyd himself was shot twice, but thankfully they were both freed."
They went on to praise the "quality and humanity of [Loyd's] writing, the depth of his insight and his ability to bring home globally significant scoops" and drew attention to the fact that "since recovering from his gunshot injuries he has returned to frontline journalism reporting most recently on the spread of Ebola in Sierra Leone".
The Sunday Times' insight team,
Jonathan Calvert and Heidi Blake, won three awards – Business journalist of the year for their investigation into RBS 'killing off good firms for profit', and investigation of the year and sports journalist of the year for their investigation into FIFA.
About the former the judges said that the investigation "was in the public interest, revelatory and it’s had a huge impact", while the latter "was the most significant sports story of the year… they took a huge dossier of evidence and turned it into a compellingly told story with no angle left unexplored".
Politics journalist of the year also went to a team at The Times comprising of
Greg Hurst, Francis Elliott, Rachel Sylvester and Alice Thomson for stories headlined 'Angry Cameron rebukes rivals as Tory rift widens', 'Islamist schools top Ofsted rating' and 'Cameron bumbles from one shambles to another with no sense of purpose'.
Making The Times and Sunday Times' combined award count of the night seven, The Sunday Times'
George Arbuthnott picked up the award for campaign of the year for his work on slavery in modern-day Britain, which the judges said "exposed a little reported scandal affecting some of the most vulnerable people in the world".
Nick Craven and Ross Slater from The Mail on Sunday took the breaking news award, 'the best story of the year', for it 'Crystal meth shame of bank chief', described as "a great example of old fashioned tabloid journalism which held the powerful to account".
Innovation of the year went to the Guardian for its 'NSA Files: Decoded' project which judges said "set a new standard for interactive digital story-telling by a UK publication… [combining] video, data and old fashioned text-based journalism skills". They added that "The Guardian has continued to own this story by finding new ways to make it meaningful to people".
Foreign affairs journalist of the year was awarded to
Patrick Cockburn from The Independent for his coverage of the emergence of ISIS. Judges said he "spotted the emergence of ISIS much earlier than anybody else and wrote about it with a depth of understanding that was just in a league of its own".
The Telegraph's
David Rose won the award for photojournalist of the year with judges saying his "pictures of the conflict in Ukraine were examples of news photography at its most dramatic. Brave and sympathetic, they were a potent demonstration of the way still print images have enduring power that video does not".
