Date Posted: Monday 8th April 2019
The shortlist for the annual London Press Club Awards has been announced. The winners of each category will be announced at the celebratory lunch at Stationers & Newspaper Makers Hall near St Paul's, on 30 April. The keynote speaker at the lunch will be BBC journalist Nick Robinson. 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
For information visit londonpressclub.co.uk.