The London Press Club today announces the shortlist for its prestigious annual awards.
The winners will be announced at the London Press Club Awards Lunch on Tuesday 30 April. The keynote speaker at the lunch will be BBC journalist Nick Robinson. BBC news journalist and Strictly Come Dancing contestant Kate Silverton will compere the Awards Lunch which will be held at Stationers & Newspaper Makers Hall near St Paul’s.
The identity of the winner of The Londoner of the Year Award will be revealed at the Awards Lunch. Previous winners have included Her Majesty The Queen, Lord Coe, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Paula Radcliffe and last year was presented posthumously to PC Keith Palmer who died in the Westminster terror attack. It was received on his behalf by Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick and Mayor of London Sadiq Khan.
The shortlist is:
Daily Newspaper of the Year
Evening Standard
Financial Times
The Sun
The Times
Sunday Newspaper of the Year
The Observer
Sunday Mirror
The Sunday Times
Business Journalist of the Year
Jim Armitage, Evening Standard
Madison Marriage, Financial Times
Mark Kleinman, Sky News
Broadcast Journalist of the Year
Channel 4 News Investigative Team
Clive Myrie, BBC News
Katya Adler and Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News
Digital Journalist of the Year
Bellingcat Investigative Team for their work in identifying the Russian operatives at the heart of the Sergei Skripal story and their transparency in revealing how they did it.
Daniel Adamson, Aliaume Leroy and Ben Strick (BBC Africa Eye journalists) whose investigation, Anatomy of a Killing, and subsequent twitter thread on killings in Cameroon was retweeted 56,000 times.
Maeve McClenaghan, Bureau Local, for #MakeThemCount, the collaborative investigation with Channel 4 and local journalists that she led about homeless deaths across the UK, which brought about a change in legislation in 2018.
Print Journalist of the Year
Alison Phillips, Daily Mirror
Amelia Gentleman, The Guardian
Sean O’Neill, The Times
Scoop of the Year
Cambridge Analytica Investigation, The Guardian
The John Worboys Campaign, The Sun
The Windrush Scandal, The Guardian
Edgar Wallace Award for writing or reporting of the highest quality
To be announced on the day
Londoner of the Year Award
To be announced on the day
