The Breaking News Award
This is the prize for the best scoop of the year (you can only enter one story for this award)
Winners - Jonathan Calvert, George Arbuthnott and Bojan Pancevski: The Sunday Times
Business, Finance and Economics Journalism
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For the journalist, or journalism team, who has done the most to probe and investigate the world of business.
Winner - Daniel Jones:The Sun
Investigation of the Year
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For the most incisive and revelatory public interest investigation of the year (you cannot enter the same work in campaign and investigation)
Winner - The Guardian for The HSBC Files
Sports Journalism
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Aimed at the sports journalist, or team, who done the most to investigate the world of sport and serve the public interest.
Winners - Mark Daly, Mona McAlinden, Murdoch Rodgers and David Epstein
BBC Scotland/Panorama/ProPublica
Science and Technology Journalism
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Aimed at journalists who cover science, health and technology with a focus on those involved in investigative features and news. Open to individuals or teams.
Winner - Deborah Cohen: BMJ
New Journalist of the Year
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(for someone who has been a journalist for three years or less). This award is for a relative newcomer to the industry (who may have worked in other jobs before). They must have been a journalist for less than 36 months.
Winner - Simon Murphy: The Mail on Sunday
Campaign of the Year
For the series of articles or broadcasts which as done the most make a difference for the better in society and serve the public interest (you cannot enter the same work in campaign and investigation)
Winner - The Guardian for Keep it in the Ground
Digital Innovation
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For the journalist, or team, who has done the most to help secure the future of public interest journalism with a digital innovation. It could be a successful app, website or blog. Or for a piece of software or hardware. A successful paywall, or other, commercial strategy could also be considered.
Winner - Vice News
Foreign Affairs Journalism
For the journalist, or team, working for a UK audience whose reports from overseas have done the most to serve the public interest. As with the other categories, this is open to journalists who work in print, online and broadcasting.
Winner - Patrick Kingsley: The Guardian
Photojournalism
For photographer whose work has done the most to serve the public interest.
Winner - Manu Brabo: The Sunday Times
Local Heroes Award
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For the journalist or team who has done the most to serve the public interest a local level or regional level.
Winner - Jeanette Oldham : Trinity Mirror Midlands (Birmingham Mail)
Politics Journalism
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This award is aimed the journalist, or team, who has done the most to hold politicians to account, with an emphasis on revelation and investigation (rather than purely commentary)
Winner - Tom Newton Dunn: The Sun
Popular Journalism
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This is the prize for the journalist, or journalism team, who has done the most to serve the public interest with a piece of journalism which also has mass market appeal. Open to tabloid and mid-market newspapers, broadcast journalism with a mass-market audience and websites with mass appeal.
Winner - News team: The Mail on Sunday
Journalist of the Year
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For the outstanding journalist of the year. This may, or may not, go to someone who has entered another category.
Winner - Jonathan Calvert
The Marie Colvin award
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For the journalist who over the course of their career has done the most to raise the reputation of the trade of journalism. In previous years this prize has gone to foreign correspondents but it is open to all journalists working mainly for a British audience.
Winner - Alan Rusbridger