MoS nominated for 7 more top awards
THE Mail on Sunday has seven nominations in the British Journalism Awards.
Our ‘End The £12bn Foreign Aid Madness’ reports are shortlisted for Campaign of the Year. The series, which highlighted massive wastage, resulted in a petition signed by 235,978 members of the public to end fixed spending of 0.7 per cent of national income on aid.
David Rose is nominated for the Popular Journalism award for his reports on Guantanamo Bay and an exclusive interview with released prisoner Shaker Aamer.
Ian Birrell is nominated for the Foreign Affairs Journalism award for reports on foreign aid, Brexit and the Government’s interest in US criminal justice. He is also nominated in the Popular Journalism category for his reports in The Mail on Sunday and Daily Mail.
Photographer Philip Ide is shortlisted in Photojournalism for capturing Brexit leaders Michael Gove and Boris Johnson plotting privately before making their shock announcement to David Cameron. Two sports journalists – Martha Kelner and Matt Lawton – are nominated for their work in The Mail on Sunday and Daily Mail. Kelner exposed sexism and bullying at the heart of British cycling, which led to Team GB coach Shane Sutton quitting.
Lawton’s investigative pieces revealed that cyclist Lizzie Armitstead had missed a drugs test, Simon Yates had failed one, and Seb Coe had misled MPs over doping at the 2012 London Olympics.
The awards, launched by trade journal Press Gazette, aim to celebrate journalism that is ‘interesting to the public and in the public interest’. The prizes will be presented on December 6.
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