Press Gazette editor-in-chief Dominic Ponsford said the awards show “probing public interest journalism is in fine health”.
“Crooked public figures of all types sleep a little less easily in their beds thanks to the efforts of you all. It has been a year where government corruption, incompetence and hypocrisy has rarely been out of the headlines as journalists have battled obfuscation and cover-up to tell Britain what is really going on at the top.”
The winners of the British Journalism Awards 2021 were:
ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT JOURNALISM
Sirin Kale and Lucy Osborne – The Guardian
BUSINESS, FINANCE AND ECONOMICS JOURNALISM
Sponsored by Starling Bank
Mark Kleinman – Sky News
POLITICS JOURNALISM
Jim Pickard, Cynthia O’Murchu, Robert Smith and Arash Massoudi – Financial Times
Highly commended: Tom Burgis and George Parker – Financial Times
INNOVATION OF THE YEAR
Sponsored by Google News Initiative
Sophia Smith Galer – BBC/Vice World News
COMMENT JOURNALISM
Marina Hyde – The Guardian
Highly commended: Tom McTague – The Atlantic
PHOTOJOURNALISM
Sponsored by Iconic Images
Hannah McKay – Reuters
NEW JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
Nimo Omer – Tortoise
FEATURES JOURNALISM
Cara McGoogan, Sarah Peters and Theodora Louloudis – The Telegraph
Highly commended: Adam Wishart and Neil Grant – BBC/Apple TV+
LOCAL JOURNALISM
Sponsored by Pertemps
Ria Chatterjee – ITV News London
Highly commended: Matty Edwards – Bristol Cable
HEALTH AND LIFE SCIENCES JOURNALISM
Sponsored by Gilead
Dave West – Health Service Journal
Highly commended: James Tapper – The Observer
Highly commended: Nikki Fox and Matt Precey – BBC Look East
SPORTS JOURNALISM
Al Jazeera Investigations
Highly commended: Jeremy Wilson – The Telegraph
Highly commended: Molly McElwee – The Telegraph
Highly commended: Sam Wallace – The Telegraph
INTERVIEWER OF THE YEAR
Emma Barnett – BBC Radio 4
Highly commended: Stephen Wright – Daily Mail
FOREIGN AFFAIRS JOURNALISM
Robert Moore, Sophie Alexander and Mark Davey – ITV News
TECHNOLOGY JOURNALISM
Sponsored by Infosys
Stephanie Kirchgaessner – The Guardian
CRIME AND LEGAL AFFAIRS JOURNALISM
Liam Vaughan, Kit Chellel and Ben Bain – Bloomberg News
Highly commended: Sophie-May Clarke – The Lancashire Telegraph
SPECIALIST JOURNALISM
Paul Thacker – The BMJ
SOCIAL AFFAIRS, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION JOURNALISM
David DeHaney, Rochelle Humes and Lyttanya Shannon – Channel 4 Dispatches
Highly commended: Athar Ahmad and Georgia Catt – BBC
ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT JOURNALISM
Sponsored by OVO Energy
John Ingham – Daily Express
Highly commended: Inzamam Rashid and Mickey Carroll – Sky News
Highly commended: Kevin Crowley and Akshat Rathi – Bloomberg
SCOOP OF THE YEAR
The Sun – Hancock’s affair with aide
ANTI-CORRUPTION JOURNALISM
Gabriel Pogrund and John Collingridge – The Sunday Times
INVESTIGATION OF THE YEAR
Greensill Capital – Financial Times
Highly commended: Queen’s Consent – Guardian News and Media
CAMPAIGN OF THE YEAR
Sponsored by Newsworks
Betrayal of the Brave – Daily Mail
NEWS PROVIDER OF THE YEAR
Guardian News and Media
BARBARA BLAKE-HANNAH AWARD
Aniefiok Ekpoudom
PUBLIC SERVICE JOURNALISM
Supported by the Journalists’ Charity
Geoff Hill – ITV News
MARIE COLVIN AWARD
Rukhshana Media
JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
Sponsored by Camelot
Robert Moore – ITV News
GEORGINA HENRY PRIZE
In association with Women in Journalism
Rachel Charlton Dailey – The Unwritten
Highly commended: Chandni Sembhi – So You Want To Be A Journalist
WOMAN OF THE YEAR
In association with Women in Journalism
Alex Crawford – Sky News
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