Freelancers are being called to nominate themselves as the definitive campaigning journalist in memory of a respected investigative reporter.
Paul Foot, who died in 2004 aged 66, reported for leading titles including The Guardian and Private Eye where he was involved in many high-profile campaigns.
Set up to recognise today’s campaigning journalists, the Paul Foot Awards is inviting submissions of material authored by individual reporters or their editorial teams.
Although broadcast material is excluded, any work published in a newspaper, a magazine or online between September 2008 and August 2009 is eligible.
A panel of judges will award one overall winner £5,000, with the five runners up each receiving £1,000, at a ceremony to be held in London on November 2nd 2009.
The judging panel for the award includes Ian Hislop, editor of Private Eye, Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, and Bill Hagerty of British Journalism Review
Paul Foot’s campaigning exploits include the Birmingham Six, the Bridgewater Four and the John Poulson scandal, and he won the George Orwell Prize for Journalism.
His accolades include the Journalist of the Year, the Campaigning Journalist of the Year, and in 2000 he was honoured as the Campaigning Journalist of the Decade.
Jul 14, 2009
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