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April 28, 2025

Cancer-campaign journalist among winners at new Reach awards

Jane Haynes and Zak Gurner-Purkis jointly named journalist of the year at Reach.

By Dominic Ponsford

Politics and people editor of the Birmingham Mail/Birmingham Live Jane Haynes was named joint journalist of the year at Reach’s first internal Celebrating Brilliant Journalism Awards last week.

She was recognised for work highlighting the scandal of child poverty in Birmingham, discord at the top of the city’s fire service and her Inside Birmingham paid-for newsletter published on Substack.

Haynes shared the top award with Zak Garner-Purkis of the Daily Express for work which included an expose of Albanian social media influencers who openly boast about running lucrative cannabis farms in the UK.

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