British Journalism Awards 2019 finalists revealed: 'Bravery is the quality that shines through'

After three weeks of deliberations involving 60 judges and 560 entries, Press Gazette is proud to announce the finalists for the 2019 British Journalism Awards.

Every major UK journalism organisation has submitted entries to this year’s awards.

The judges were chosen for their independence and expertise and objectively judged entries against the following criteria:

• Was the work revelatory?
• Did it show journalistic skill and rigour?
• Did it serve the public interest?

The shortlists were finalised during two days of jury deliberations where the entries were discussed and judges sought to reach a consensus.

Since its launch in 2011 the British Journalism Awards has been set apart from other events by two factors: this event is open to all journalists writing for a British audience regardless of the platform AND it recognises great journalism which is both interesting to the public and in the public interest.

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Chairman of the judges and Press Gazette editor-in-chief Dominic Ponsford said: “Because our entry criteria is so strict publications really do only enter their best work, making the job of the judges particularly hard.

“With only about 20 per cent of entries making it to the shortlists, being a finalist at the British Journalism Awards is a superb achievement in itself.

“One quality shines through all the shortlists: bravery. Again and again journalists have pitted themselves against powerful vested interests to provide a voice for the voiceless and shine a light into the murkiest areas of Britain and the wider world.

“In these days of social media hate mobs it takes courage and a cast-iron skin for a journalist to expose pretty much any uncomfortable truths. In many cases the British Journalism Awards finalists have placed themselves in physical danger in order to report the news.

“Press Gazette thanks and salutes all this year’s entrants and finalists.”

The winners of the 2019 British Journalism Awards will be announced at the awards dinner which is being held on 10 December at the Hilton Bankside in London. Click here to book tickets.

The shortlist for News Provider of the Year has yet to be announced. There are no shortlists for Journalist of the Year, sponsored by Camelot, and the Marie Colvin Award – the winners of both will be announced on the night.

Uber is the exclusive headline sponsor for the 2019 BJAs.

The finalists for the 2019 British Journalism Awards are:

Arts and Entertainment

 

Grant Tucker – The Sunday Times:

• ‘Mums like me shouldn’t be burying our 19-year-old kids, should we?’
• My genes are white but I’m black
• The lady is for turning into Mrs T — Scully is Maggie in The Crown

Oliver Wainwright – Guardian News & Media:

• I’ve seen the future and it’s Norwich: the energy-saving, social housing revolution
• Snubbed, cheated, erased: the scandal of architecture’s invisible women
• Horror on the Hudson: New York’s $25bn architectural fiasco

Heloise Wood – The Bookseller:

• Survey reveals extent to which working class feel excluded from book trade
• ‘Spear phishing’ scams continue post-Frankfurt
• Hackers targeted Curtis Brown for months in bid to get hold of The Testaments manuscript

Tom Bryant – Daily Mirror:

• Green Jamie’s £5m deal with Shell
• Liam: I was so lucky to escape knifeman
• Dumbo: Fury as Clunes rides elephant whilst patron of charity opposed

Ian Youngs – BBC News website:

• Pop music’s growing gender gap revealed in the collaboration age
• Can TV soaps like EastEnders and Coronation Street really change lives? The
• Manchester galleries using art to try to change the world

Mark Brown – Guardian News & Media:

• Plans for huge roof bar at Royal Festival Hall condemned as shocking
• Pet project: roadkill helps radical art group defy the norm
• You’ve been warned: London theatre details offensive scenes in advance

Business and Economics Journalism, sponsored by Starling Bank

 

John Detrixhe – Quartz:

• Scotland is on the front line in the fight against “cash deserts”
• The UK is going cashless and, like most of the world, has no plan for what happens next
• A complete guide to a world without cash

Gavin Finch – Bloomberg Business Week:

• The old boys of LLOYD’s: Here’s to tradition say the daytime drinking, sexual harassing men of the London insurance market
• Lloyd’s of London Unveils Lifetime Bans for Sexual Harassment
• New Groping Claim at Lloyd’s of London Agent Deepens Scandal

Gareth Davies – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism:

• The public service gamble: Councils borrowing billions to play the property market
• Revealed: The thousands of public spaces lost to the council funding crisis
• What has your council sold? Search our map to find out

Owen Walker, Peter Smith, Kadhim Shubber, Robert Smith, Patrick Jenkins and Kate Beioley – Financial Times:

• Woodford fund shrinks by £560m in a month as investors jump ship
• Woodford’s woes expose a flawed model
• Exotic bet links Hollywood idol and fallen star

Rob Davies – Guardian News & Media:

• Ladbrokes wooed problem gambler – then paid victims £1m
• Government’s FOBT decision influenced by ‘discredited’ report
• Viagogo releases data showing huge scale of ticket touting

Ruth Sunderland  – Daily Mail:

• Metro hunts for new chairman
• Deal! Noel ‘wins £5m’ after his bitter row with Lloyds
• Is this ‘Lord’ to blame for the biggest savings scandal in 30 years

Simon Goodley – The Guardian:

• Banned but still in business: law fails to stop rogue landlords
• Freezing UK tower block was cash cow for foreign investors
• Uncovered: the £200m theme park, the businessman – and the missing millions

Tim Bradshaw – Financial Times:

• Jony Ive, iPhone designer, announces Apple departure
• What will Apple do without Jony Ive?
• Jony Ive on leaving Apple, in his own words

Campaign of the Year, sponsored by Uber

 

Duty of care – The Telegraph (Paul Nuki, Charles Hymas and team)

Dying homeless – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (Maeve McClenaghan and Charles Boutaud)

End this injustice – Daily Express (Liz Perkins)

Join the hospital help force – Daily Mail (Kate Pickles)

Normandy memorial – Daily Mail (Robert Hardman)

Segregated playgrounds – Guardian News & Media (Harriet Grant, Aamna Mohdin and Chris Michael)

Helen’s law – Daily Mirror (Fiona Duffy and Louie Smith)

Locked up for being autistic – Mail on Sunday (Ian Birrell)

Comment Journalism

 

Adrian Wooldridge – The Economist:

• Across the world Anglophilia is giving way to Anglobemusement
• Long live the Tory revolution!
• David Cameron’s alternative memoirs

Alex Brummer – Daily Mail:

• Has no one got the guts to solve our elderly care crisis?
• Like all Neil Woodford investors, I feel utterly betrayed. And the more we learn, the angrier I get
• Why I, as a passionate Brexiteer, believe a vote against May’s deal would be an act of national stupidity

Brian Reade – Daily Mirror:

• Doff your cap or you will be dismissed as a Poundland Lenin
• Why Boris is not fit to be PM
• Failing Grayling’s the new poster boy for blundering Britain

Dominic Lawson – The Sunday Times:

• ‘Nick’ goes to jail, but his promoters go scot-free
• Granny knew, and now so does Frank Field
• At last, vulnerable adults’ parents will be heard

Ian Birrell – The i:

The care system remains twisted
Serious contender for serious times

Marina Hyde – Guardian News & Media:

• Welcome to the Westminster apocalypse. Have you thought about theocracy instead?
• Poor Prince Andrew is ‘appalled’ by Epstein. Let that be an end to it
• Dazed and confused, Johnson stumbles into the twilight zone with a police escort

Clare Dwyer Hogg – Financial Times:

• A cry from the Irish border

Nesrine Malik – Guardian News & Media:

• Indulging Steve Bannon is just a form of liberal narcissism
• Until Christchurch I thought it was worth debating with Islamophobes. Not any more
• Hillary Clinton’s chilling pragmatism gives the far right a free pass

Tom Peck – The Independent:

• To frighten the EU into believing we are serious about no-deal Brexit, the country has staged a fake traffic jam all the way to Dover
• Why does Nigel Farage keep coming back to Clacton? Because it is nothing like Britain
• Dominic Cummings, the latest self-appointed genius to run 10 Downing Street, is the most deluded of them all

Crime and Legal Affairs Journalism

 

Anna Moore – Guardian News & Media:

• ‘I miss him so much’: why did a devoted wife kill the man she loved?
• The fatal, hateful rise of choking during sex
• ‘There’s no end and no escape. You feel so, so exposed’: life as a victim of revenge porn

Stephen Wright – Daily Mail:

• ‘Nick’: The damning document
• So who was to blame for breaking law?
• ‘Nick’ police searches broke the law

Tom Harper – The Sunday Times:

• Named: British men ‘linked to spies, terrorists, sheikhs and £8bn fraud’
• Sunbed boss ‘linked to £8bn fraud that helped bin Laden’
• Taxman kept quiet while £8bn fraud helped fund bin Laden

Tom Pettifor – Daily Mirror:

• Confession killer: ‘4 more victims’
• ‘Confession killer’ witness quizzed by cold case cops
• Firm’s probation blunders led to arson murder of my darling boy

Steve Swann, Thomas Mackintosh, Tom Symonds, Danny Shaw, Wesley Stephenson, Jodi Law and David Brown- BBC News:

• Killed in 2019: The UK’s first 100 victims

Franz Wild – Bloomberg News:

• Trouble in the Congo: The Misadventures of Glencore
• The Mystery Millionaire Who Haunted London’s Insider-Trading Trial
• The U.K.’s Big Saudi Bribery Probe Is Stuck in Legal Limbo

Brooke Johnston and Sue Mitchell – BBC Radio 4:

• I’d Rather Not Say (but for the recording you can call me Courtney)

Alon Aviram, Michael Gillard, Will Franklin, Matt Woodman and Adam Cantwell-Corn – Bristol Cable:

• The Cornerman

Features Journalism

 

Aasma Day – HuffPost UK:

• The Crisis Engulfing The NHS – Seen From One Hospital Bed
• This Is What It’s Like To Lose Your Local Leisure Centre
• ‘It  would Be Like Making A School Bully The Headteacher’: Blackburn’s Muslim Community Face Up To Prospect Of Boris Johnson As Prime Minister

Grace Macaskill – Sunday Mirror:

• I covered him with a blanket and he said, ‘good night darling’.. then I woke up in the hospital
• Amber cried out for help.. nobody listened to her
• The last time I spoke to Amelie I said, see you tomorrow… but there was no tomorrow

Henry Mance – Financial Times:

• Can you channel Kerouac in an electric car?
• Is privacy dead?
• Who governs Britain?

Chris Cook – Tortoise:

• Defeated by Brexit:

Anushka Asthana, Robert Booth, Joshua Kelly and the Today in Focus team – Guardian News & Media:

• Today in Focus: Growing up with gangs, poverty and knife crime:

Cherry Wilson – BBC Newsbeat:

• The murder of Joy Morgan:

Simon Hattenstone and Daniel Lavelle – Guardian News & Media:

• The homeless death of Aimee Teese: ‘I didn’t think it would come to this at 30’
• The homeless death of Jake Humm: ‘It was my deepest, darkest fear’
• The homeless death of Kane Walker: how we let down the kid from careThe empty doorway

Sophie Elmhirst – The Economist 1843 magazine:

• Meet Alexa: inside the mind of a digital native
• Will there ever be a cure for chronic pain?

Foreign Affairs Journalism, sponsored by The Investigative Journal:

 

Tom Wilson, David Pilling and David Blood – Financial Times:

How Joseph Kabila lost then won Congo’s election
Congo voting data reveal huge fraud in poll to replace Kabila

Robin Barnwell – ITV Exposure/Hardcash Productions:

• Iran unveiled: Taking on the Ayatollahs
• Undercover: Inside China’s digital gulag

Jean Mackenzie and Hayley Valentine – The Nine/BBC Scotland:

• The Rise of the Far Right

Anthony Loyd – The Times:

• Bring me home
• Corpses pile up on worst day of battle for Tripoli
• Suicide pact brothers vow to wreak vengeance on US

Louise Callaghan – The Sunday Times:

• Where being an influencer can get you killed
• ‘The doctors know they’re going to die, so they just keep working’
• Caliphate falls but its ‘crocodile’ cells plot to maul the West

Josie Ensor – The Telegraph:

• Child of the caliphate
• ‘She’ll never know she had a mother who loved her’ – Yazidi women forced to abandon their babies born to Isil
• Shamima Begum was cruel enforcer in Isil’s morality police, say Syrian witnesses

Edward Luce – Financial Times:

• America’s new redneck rebellion
• A preacher for Trump’s America: Joel Osteen and the prosperity gospel

Tom Phillips – Guardian News & Media:

• ‘Chaos, chaos, chaos’: a journey through Bolsonaro’s Amazon inferno
• ‘A slow-motion catastrophe’: on the road in Venezuela, 20 years after Chávez’s rise’
• People have had enough’: Mexican town that lynched alleged kidnappers

John McDermott – The Economist:

• The new scramble for Africa
• Choices on the continent
• Heroin highways

Health and Life Sciences Journalism sponsored by EY:

 

Andrew Gregory – The Sunday Times:

• Britain’s opioid epidemic kills five every day
• We are sleepwalking towards carnage in our communities
• Charity inquiry over links to opioid lobby

Ben Spencer – Daily Mail:

• 770,000 denied care bill help in 2 years
• A cure for blindness
• Victory on pills that devastate lives of millions

Faye Kirkland – BBC:

• Sexual assault victims being failed
• Trans Kids: Medicine Matters
• Clampdown on British Pharmacies

Ian Birrell – The Mail on Sunday:

• Stop the state from stealing our children
• Dr Death who proudly admits he’s killed 140 patients
• £730,000: That’s how much health fat cats can rake in every year for each autistic child they lock up

Deborah Cohen – BBC Newsnight:

• UK teen dies after stem cell windpipe transplant
• Inside the UK’s drug buyers’ clubs
• Brexit: Some drugs ‘cannot be stockpiled’ for no-deal

Miki Mistrati, Antony Barnett, Jo Burge, Adam Vandermark,
Peter Hirst and Oliver Smith – Channel 4 Dispatches:

• How Safe are Your Medicines

Nicholas Carding, Russell Scott, Shaun Lintern,  James Illman and
Ben Clover – Health Service Journal:

• Trusts alerted as firm stockpiles clinical waste and body parts
• Clinical waste building up outside hospitals
• Patients’ body parts were stored dangerously for six months

Lilah Raptopoulos and James Fontanella-Khan – Financial Times:

• The trillion-dollar taboo: why it’s time to stop ignoring mental health at work

Innovation, sponsored by Google News Initiative

 

Brexit: A Cry from the Irish Border – Financial Times (Juliet Riddell,
Tom Hannen, Clare Dwyer Hogg and Stephen Rea)

Britain Talks – Daily Mirror (Ros Wynne-Jones,
Claire Donnelly, Ann Gripper,  Helen Harper,  Fran Goodman and
Maryam Qaiser)

Creative Producers newsroom innovations- Financial Times (Robin Kwong and Claire Manibog):

• How We Improved Visual Storytelling with Templates that You Can Use, Too
• Are British universities worth the cost? FT readers respond
• How safe is the air we breathe?

The internet, but not as we know it: life online in China, Cuba, India and Russia – Guardian News & Media

ThinkIn – Tortoise (James Harding, Merope Mills, Ceri Thomas, Polly Curtis and Matthew D’Ancona)

Women’s sport – The Telegraph

Interviewer of the Year

 

Decca Aitkenhead – The Sunday Times

• Russell Brand on his hedonistic past, marriages and becoming a father
• Ruth Davidson, leader of the Scottish Conservatives, on depression, her self‑harm scars and why she’ll never be PM
• Actor Rob Delaney opens up about grief and the death of his two-year-old son

Eddie Mair – LBC

• Eddie Mair Grills Liz Truss Over Austerity, Brexit And More

Hadley Freeman – The Guardian

• Keanu Reeves: ‘Grief and loss, those things don’t ever go away’
• Tony Slattery: ‘I had a very happy time until I went slightly barmy’
• The Michael Jackson accusers: ‘The abuse didn’t feel strange, because he was like a god’

Helen Carroll – Daily Mail

• Aged just nine, Lauren, now 35, lost BOTH parents to the contaminated blood scandal
• Mother who has fought for years to prove pollution killed her daughter wins huge breakthrough
• ‘Sixteen months in prison is not enough for the loss of my brilliant son’s life’

Patrick Hill – Sunday Mirror

• Gareth Thomas reveals he’s living with HIV and says diagnosis left him suicidal
• Novichok attack survivor Charlie Rowley fears the poison is slowly killing him
• Tyson Fury’s wife Paris reveals she lost their baby on day of his fight – and had to hide it from him

Victoria Derbyshire – BBC

• New Zealand’s PM: How I juggle politics with motherhood
• UKIP candidate hears survivors’ reaction to rape comments
• Sally Challen: I’m sorry I killed my abusive husband

Investigation, sponsored by Transparency International UK

 

Action fraud – The Times (Paul Morgan-Bentley)

Bet365 undercover – Daily Mail (Tom Payne)

Britain’s Hidden Children’s Homes – BBC Newsnight (Katie Razzall, Sally Chesworth, Innes Bowen, Luke Winsbury, Daniel Clarke, Esme Wren and Laura Lea)

Is Labour anti-Semitic? – BBC Panorama (John Ware, Leo Telling, Neil Grant and Rachel Jupp)

Bad boy of Brexit – Open Democracy (Peter Geoghegan and Jenna Corderoy)

Britain’s #Metoo Scandal – The Telegraph (Claire Newell and the Telegraph investigation team)

The Prime Minister and the American businesswoman – The Sunday Times (Jonathan Calvert, George Arbuthnott and Gabriel Pogrund)

The sex drug that kills – Buzzfeed UK and Channel 4 Dispatches (Patrick Strudwick)

Undercover: Inside China’s Digital Gulag – ITV Exposure/Hardcash Productions (Robin Barnwell)

Local Journalism

 

Rodney Edwards – The Impartial Reporter:

• The evil of a principal who abused his power
• I told the Orange Order these men abused my daughter, then I resigned
• We were sexually abused as other  Orangemen watched and did nothing

Adam Cantwell-Corn, Matt Woodman, Will Franklin and Alon Aviram – Bristol Cable:

• The ice cream slavery case

David Thompson, Stephen Nolan, Ross Carson and Mary McKeagney – BBC Nolan Show:

• Belfast Roma leaders ‘intimidating and exploiting’
• Community group ‘knew about Roma exploitation’
• Nicolae Nicola: Prominent member of Roma community arrested

Julian Sturdy, Kafui Okpattah, Debbie Tubby and Chris Sharman – BBC East Impact Hub:

• University of Essex ‘sorry’ for sex complaint delays 
• Essex students ‘demand change’ to sex complaint policy
• University of Essex: New sexual assault code brought in

Phil Coleman – News & Star (Carlisle):

• Doctor who faked will of west Cumbrian widow led life of deception
• Bogus doctor latest: Urgent checks on 3,000 UK medics
• Cumbria NHS gave bogus psychiatrist’s firm £115k

Hayley Mortimer and Mark Cummings – BBC Radio Gloucestershire:

• Fabricated or Induced Illness

Elaine Forrester, Lyndsey Telford, Gwyneth Jones and Jeremy Adams – BBC Northern Ireland:

• Spotlight: Paisley in Paradise Revisited

Chris Chambers – Global’s Newsroom North West:

• Life After Murder

New Journalist of the Year

 

Alexandra Heal – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism:

• Nowhere to turn: Women say domestic abuse by police officers goes unpunished
• Revealed: How the global beef trade is destroying the Amazon
• Deadly gas: Cutting farm emissions in half could save 3,000 lives a year

Annabelle Timsit – Quartz:

• The marketing practices that worsened America’s opioid epidemic are making their way overseas
• What it’s like to raise children in the world’s most polluted capital
• The most important lessons from the emotionally charged breastfeeding debate

Callum Mason – MoneySavingExpert.com:

• Revealed: Cabin luggage sold as ‘fitting Ryanair’ can’t be taken on board for free
• Seven package holiday firms could ask you to pay more after booking if Brexit increases costs
• Revealed: Passport applicants given shorter renewals after stealth rule change

Gabriel Pogrund – The Sunday Times:

• Labour’s hate files expose Jeremy Corbyn’s anti‑semite army
• Revealed: the child victims of Tinder, Grindr and other dating apps
• Revealed: the agony of women brought to the UK as “rent a womb” mothers — then abandoned

Hanna Yusuf – BBC News:

• Grenfell Tower: Woman gives birth to ‘youngest survivor’
• Costa Coffee franchise workers ‘not treated like humans’
• Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Husband speaks after six days of hunger strike

Holly Bancroft – The Mail on Sunday:

• Exposed: Sex for rent landlords who have tried to entice 250,000 UK women into bed
• Desperate parents are buying cannabis oil with 400 times the legal limit of psycho-active ingredients from Facebook in bid to help their sick kids
• Who’s ready to get arrested? Undercover with the eco-activist group Extinction Rebellion

Paul Caruana Galizia – Tortoise:

• Daphne’s sons
• Britain’s everyday drug problem
• Who left the cakes out in the rain?

Scarlet Howes – Sunday Mirror:

• Police killer who mowed down officer back behind wheel with no insurance or tax
• Freddie Starr’s daughter says he was a ‘terrible dad’ and she’s ‘ashamed’ of him
• Terrified child refugees stuck in Calais camp ‘thanks to broken Tory promises’

Photojournalism, sponsored by Affinity Photo

 

Anthony Devlin – Freelance/Getty/AFP

Hannah McKay – Reuters

Richard Pohle – The Times

Stefan Rousseau – Press Association

Philip Coburn – Daily Mirror

Javier Fergo – Freelance

Politics Journalism

 

Eddie Mair – LBC:

• Eddie Mair Grills Liz Truss Over Austerity, Brexit And More

Gary Gibbon – Channel 4 News:

• Boris Johnson interview: From do or die to deal or die?

John Ware, Leo Telling, Neil Grant and Rachel Jupp – BBC Panorama:

• Is Labour anti-Semitic?

Jim Pickard, Robert Shrimsley, Jonathan Ford, Chris Giles, Delphine Strauss and Sebastian Payne – Financial Times:

• The Corbyn Revolution

John Domokos and John Harris – The Guardian:

• Anywhere but Westminster

Paul Waugh – Huffpost UK:

• Exclusive: Chancellor Sajid Javid’s Media Adviser ‘Fired’ By Downing Street
• The Inside Story: How Theresa May’s Personal And Political Flaws Finally Forced Her Downfall
• The Donald Trump And Boris Johnson Show: UK And US Braced For The New ‘Special Relationship’

Tim Shipman – The Sunday Times:

• Tory party in civil war after Amber Rudd quits
• ‘Loser’ Jeremy Corbyn rocked as key aide Andrew Fisher walks out
• Revealed: Brexit legal advice could sink Theresa May

Toby Helm – The Observer:

• Rebel Labour MPs set to quit party and form centre group
• Secret report reveals government fear of schools chaos after no-deal Brexit
• Boris Johnson seeks legal advice on five-week parliament closure ahead of Brexit

Science Journalism, sponsored by Takeda

 

Akshat Rathi – Quartz:

• The complete guide to the battery revolution
• The inside story of how CATL became the world’s largest electric-vehicle battery company
• How we get to the next big battery breakthrough

Damian Carrington – Guardian News and Media:

• Revealed: air pollution may be damaging ‘every organ in the body’
• Plummeting insect numbers ‘threaten collapse of nature’
• UN environment chief resigns after frequent flying revelations

Graham Lawton – New Scientist:

• Anti-ageing drugs are coming that could keep you healthier for longer
• Blood amber: The exquisite trove of fossils fuelling war in Myanmar
• Our wooden future: making cars, skyscrapers and even lasers from wood

Nada Farhoud – Daily Mirror:

• Kids play in Arctic seas as 22C heatwave grips North Pole at climate change frontline
• Sick British tourists shoot monkeys for ‘fun’ on the safari of shame
• Endangered shark being dished up to unsuspecting customers at UK fish and chip shops

Tom Warren and Katie J.M. Baker – Buzzfeed:

• WWF Funds Guards Who Have Tortured And Killed People
• A Leaked Report Shows WWF Was Warned Years Ago Of “Frightening” abuses
• WWF Says Indigenous People Want This Park. An Internal Report Says Some Fear Forest Ranger “Repression.”

Maurice Tamman, Matthew Green, Mari Saito, Sarah Slobin and Maryanne Murray – Reuters:

• Ocean shock: The climate crisis beneath the waves

Scoop of the Year

 

Britain’s #Metoo scandal – The Telegraph (Claire Newell and the Telegraph investigation team)

Liam Neeson: ‘I walked the streets with a cosh, hoping I’d be approached by a “black bastard” so that I could kill him’ – The Independent (Clemence Michallon)

Police called to Boris Johnson’s flat – Guardian News & Media (Jim Waterson)

Got him: Catching the speedboat killer – Daily Mail (Sam Greenhill, Inderdeep Bains, Arthur Martin and Emine Sinmaz)

Bring me home: The Times finds former schoolgirl who fled to join Isis in Syrian refugee camp – The Times (Anthony Loyd)

Our man in US says Trump is inept – Mail on Sunday (Isabel Oakeshott)

Operation Chaos: Whitehall’s secret no-deal plan leaked – The Sunday Times (Rosamund Urwin and Caroline Wheeler)

Trusts alerted as firm stockpiles clinical waste and body parts – Health Service Journal (Nick Carding, Shaun Lintern, Ben Clover and James Illman)

Specialist Journalism

 

Billy Camden – FE Week:

Revealed: The truth behind the 3aaa investigations
Highbury College in £1.4m legal battle with Nigerian state
Principal’s £150k expenses revealed… finally

John Dickens – Schools Week:

Exposed: Agnew’s £35m school waste claims

Daniel Grote – Citywire:

• Revealed: Woodford lists unquoted stakes offshore to stay below limit
• The inside story of Woodford’s battle to cling onto start-ups
• Woodford needs Hargreaves Lansdown now more than ever

Polly Curtis – Tortoise:

• The long shadow of Baby Pthe z
• The poor parents
• ‘We are operating in the dark’

David Bond – Financial Times:

Inside GCHQ: the art of spying in the digital age
Huawei threat uncovers enemy within UK spy agencies
Will Northern Ireland dissidents be able to exploit Brexit chaos?

Zak Garner-Purkis – Construction News:

• Black market construction exposed: Where modern slavery starts
• Slavery in the supply chain: A CN investigation
• Inside Spurs’ stadium: ‘I’ve never in my life worked like that’

May Bulman – The Independent:

• Modern slavery victims ‘drawn back into exploitation’ after Home Office slashes support
• Gay woman unlawfully deported from UK was ‘gang-raped and fearing for her life’ after removal to Uganda
• How Home Office makes millions a week from outsourcing visas to Dubai-based firm accused of exploitation

Peter Apps – Inside Housing:

• PM’s chief of staff did not act on multiple warnings about fire safety in months before Grenfell, new letters show
• NHBC signed off more than 50 towers with Grenfell-style cladding systems, investigation reveals
• Expert fire report for Grenfell based on plans which did not include cladding, document reveals

Sports Journalism

 

Jeremy Wilson – The Telegraph:

• Introducing Girls, Inspired – a campaign to close the gender sports gap in schools and keep girls active
• Exclusive: Telegraph campaign credited with helping to ensure more girls experience the life-changing benefits of sport
• Special Report: France rocked by the tragic cost of rugby’s safety crisis

Mark Daly, Calum McKay and Murdoch Rogers – BBC Panorama:

• Alberto Salazar: Mo Farah’s former coach banned for four years for doping violations
• Alberto Salazar: The inside story of Nike Oregon Project founder’s downfall
• How Celtic boys abuser was convicted for a second time

Matt Lawton – The Times / Daily Mail:

• EXCLUSIVE: World’s fastest man Christian Coleman ‘has missed THREE drugs tests’
• Middlesbrough to sue English Football League in row over Derby County stadium purchase
• Mo Farah’s former coach Alberto Salazar gets four-year doping ban

Miguel Delaney – The Independent:

• The death of the 72? Why football outside the Premier League is on its knees
• What are Man City? Premier League champions, the greatest team ever and a ‘sportswashing instrument’ of a foreign state
• How the Bundesliga is attracting the Premier League’s best young players and why it’s just the beginning

Mike Keegan, Laura Lambert and Matt Lawton – Daily Mail Sportsmail investigations team:

• Call for police to probe racing ‘scam’
• Have Saracens broken salary cap rules?
• REVEALED: The REAL story of Sunderland’s takeover

Suzanne Wrack – Guardian:

• Fifa examining claims of sexual and physical abuse on Afghanistan women’s team
• ‘There was blood everywhere’: the abuse case against the Afghan FA president
• Afghanistan’s football president banned for life for sexual abuse

Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnott – Sunday Times Insight:

• Exclusive investigation: Qatar’s secret $880m World Cup payments to Fifa
• Take it or leave it: Qatar’s lucrative World Cup offer to Fifa
• Russia faces new Olympics ban over doping

Technology Journalism, sponsored by Huawei

 

Bill Goodwin, Sebastian Klovig Skelton and Duncan Campbell – Computer Weekly:

• Facebook asked George Osborne to influence EU data protection law
• Facebook leaks: Zuckerberg turned data into dollars in ruthless battle with competitors
• Facebook’s privacy game – how Zuckerberg backtracked on promises to protect personal data

Geoff White, Osman Iqbal and Simon Hancock – BBC Click:

• Facial recognition
• Use of facial recognition tech ‘dangerously irresponsible’

Robin Barnwell – ITV Exposure / Hardcash Productions:

Exposure – Undercover: Inside China’s Digital Gulag

Madhumita Murgia – Financial Times:

• How London became a test case for using facial recognition in democracies
• London’s King’s Cross uses facial recognition in security cameras
• Who’s using your face? The ugly truth about facial recognition

Mehul Srivastava – Financial Times:

• Israeli group’s spyware ‘offers keys to Big Tech’s cloud’
• WhatsApp voice calls used to inject Israeli spyware on phones
• Israel’s NSO: the business of spying on your iPhone

Alex Hern – Guardian:

• Apple contractors ‘regularly hear confidential details’ on Siri recordings
• Apple apologises for allowing workers to listen to Siri recordings
• Revealed: how TikTok censors videos that do not please Beijing

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