The Guardian has received a variety award on the prestigious Press Awards after its exposé on its founders’ hyperlinks to transatlantic slavery, as one in every of its reporters took residence the award for information reporter of the 12 months.
Judges on the Press Awards known as the Guardian’s cross-platform Cotton Capital collection, encompassing information articles, long-form essays, podcasts, video, {a magazine}, a 15-part publication and social media content material, a “breathtakingly sincere mea culpa”.
They added that it was “a vastly considerate and complete undertaking that gives a groundbreaking instance of how an organisation addresses historic hyperlinks to slavery”.
Thursday night’s awards ceremony on the Marriott in London’s Grosvenor Sq. additionally noticed David Conn take information reporter of the 12 months, Anna Isaac enterprise and finance journalist, and Tom Jenkins sports activities photographer of the 12 months.
The judges mentioned Conn demonstrated “stamina, tenacity and braveness” in his two-year battle to disclose how the Conservative peer Michelle Mone and her kids acquired £29m on account of a profitable contract awarded to PPE Medpro, an organization she helped safe a spot for within the authorities’s Covid “VIP lane”.
Judges praised Conn’s “exceptional willpower and braveness” in holding energy to account within the highest public curiosity, singling out the Mone investigation – “which encompasses political sleaze, reaches the very best echelons of energy and speaks to broader corruption” – for explicit reward.
Isaac’s work was hailed as “vastly impactful and brave”, exposing, because it did, “the clubby immoral behaviour of highly effective individuals”.
Additional accolades went to Chris Riddell of the Observer for cartoonist of the 12 months and Laura Cumming was awarded critic of the 12 months.
Anna Bawden and David Batty had been extremely counseled for a Guardian investigation into sexual harassment within the NHS. This was described as a hard-hitting collection of tales that laid naked the extent of sexual violence and misconduct within the NHS.
Jay Rayner of the Observer was extremely counseled in critic of the 12 months. “His work is filled with the form of wit, intelligence and perception that each he and the Observer are well-known for,” the judges mentioned.
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