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Bevins Prize
The Bevins Prize is a British award recognising outstanding investigative journalism. Established in 2008, it is named after the journalist Anthony Bevins (1942 - 2001) and awarded by the Bevins Trust. Also known as the "Rat up a Drainpipe Award", the Prize's trophy is modelled on a drain pipe. Winners * 2008: Deborah Haynes * 2009: Paul Lewis * 2010: Clare Sambrook Clare Sambrook is an English-Irish freelance journalist and author. Sambrook is best known for her work concerning the ''End Child Detention Now'' campaign which won her the Paul Foot Award and the Bevins Prize. Education and career In high sch ... References {{reflist British journalism awards Awards established in 2008 2008 establishments in the United Kingdom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Investigative Journalism
Investigative journalism is a form of journalism in which reporters deeply investigate a single topic of interest, such as serious crimes, political corruption, or corporate wrongdoing. An investigative journalist may spend months or years researching and preparing a report. Practitioners sometimes use the terms "watchdog reporting" or "accountability reporting." Most investigative journalism has traditionally been conducted by newspapers, wire services, and freelance journalists. With the decline in income through advertising, many traditional news services have struggled to fund investigative journalism, due to it being very time-consuming and expensive. Journalistic investigations are increasingly carried out by news organizations working together, even internationally (as in the case of the Panama Papers and Paradise Papers), or by organizations such as ProPublica, which have not operated previously as news publishers and which rely on the support of the public and ben ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Bevins
Anthony or Antony is a masculine given name, derived from the ''Antonii'', a ''gens'' ( Roman family name) to which Mark Antony (''Marcus Antonius'') belonged. According to Plutarch, the Antonii gens were Heracleidae, being descendants of Anton, a son of Heracles. Anthony is an English name that is in use in many countries. It has been among the top 100 most popular male baby names in the United States since the late 19th century and has been among the top 100 male baby names between 1998 and 2018 in many countries including Canada, Australia, England, Ireland and Scotland. Equivalents include ''Antonio'' in Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Maltese; ''Αντώνιος'' in Greek; ''António'' or ''Antônio'' in Portuguese; '' Antoni'' in Catalan, Polish, and Slovene; '' Anton'' in Dutch, Galician, German, Icelandic, Romanian, Russian, and Scandinavian languages; ''Antoine'' in French; '' Antal'' in Hungarian; and ''Antun'' or ''Ante'' in Croatian. The usual abbreviated form i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sport .... It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited, Scott Trust. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborah Haynes
Deborah Haynes (born October 1976) is a British journalist, security and defence editor at Sky News. She was previously known for her work as defence editor for ''The Times'' as well as documenting the dangers Iraqi interpreters faced since British troops withdrew from Iraq. Biography Haynes grew up in Surrey, attending Collingwood College, Surrey. She had her first experience of journalism during a work experience week where she was placed with ''Aldershot News''. Haynes then graduated from the University of Cardiff in 1999 with a degree in law and Japanese. In 1999, she began working as a producer for the British bureau of the Japanese television channel TV Tokyo. Then she worked for Agence France-Presse and Reuters. At the end of May 2018, it was announced that Haynes was to leave ''The Times'' to join Sky News as their Foreign Affairs editor. She replaced Sam Kiley who left Sky News that January to join CNN. Haynes speaks Japanese and French. Awards In 2008, Hayn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Lewis (journalist)
Paul Lewis (born 1981) is head of investigations at ''The Guardian''. He was previously the newspaper's Washington Correspondent, San Francisco Bureau Chief and Associate Editor and has won 12 awards, mostly for investigative reporting. He is the co-author of Undercover; The True Story of Britain's Secret Police. His eight-part series 'Anywhere But Washington' explored what America's most overlooked peoples and places revealed about a nation divided in 2016. He was President of Cambridge University Student Union in 2002-2003. Lewis joined ''The Guardian'' as a trainee in 2005, and was Stern Fellow at ''The Washington Post'' in 2007. Early in his career, he became known for his award-winning investigation of the death of Ian Tomlinson at the 2009 G20 summit protests in London. In August 2010 Lewis became head of ''The Guardian'' "multimedia special projects team" which aims to find "new angles on breaking news stories, including using multimedia and crowdsourcing". Lewis was n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clare Sambrook Clare Sambrook is an English-Irish freelance journalist and author. Sambrook is best known for her work concerning the ''End Child Detention Now'' campaign which won her the Paul Foot Award and the Bevins Prize. Education and career In high school, Sambrook won the Vellacott History Prize from the University of Cambridge. She later studied at Cambridge. After university Sambrook began working for the ''John Lewis Gazette'' before working for the Haymarket Group. She later began working at the newspaper, ''The Daily Telegraph'' before leaving to become a freelance journalist so that she could concentrate on investigations. Canongate published Sambrook's first novel, ''Hide and Seek'' in the UK in 2005. The book is written from the point of view of a 9-year-old boy called Harry who had to deal with the aftermath of the abduction of his 5-year-old brother, Daniel. In 2010, Sambrook won the Paul Foot Award and the Bevins Prize for her articles which exposed government policies co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] |
