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Entries invited for Paul Foot AwardThe British Journalism Review is once again pleased to be associated with the Paul Foot Award for investigative or campaigning journalism. Sponsored by Private Eye and The Guardian, and now in its fourth year, the award was created in memory of revered investigative journalist Foot, who died in July 2004.Submissions will be accepted for material that has been published in a newspaper, magazine or online between September 1, 2007 and August 31 this year. Currently no broadcast material is eligible. Individual journalists, teams of journalists or entire publications may enter and entries will be considered for anything from single pieces to entire campaigns. The overall winner will be awarded £5,000, with the five runners-up each receiving £1,000, at a ceremony to be held in London on November 3. The judging panel for the 2008 award will comprise Brian McArthur, former editor of Today newspaper and then a senior executive at The Times (chair); Ian Hislop (editor, Private Eye); Alan Rusbridger (editor, The Guardian); Jeremy Dear (general secretary, National Union of Journalists); Richard Ingrams (editor, The Oldie); Bill Hagerty (editor, British Journalism Review), and Clare Fermont. The closing date for entries is September 1, 2008. For further information, including a downloadable application form, log on to: www.private-eye.co.uk.
Cudlipp Award winnerThe 2007 BJR Cudlipp Award — commemorating the journalism of the great editor and editorial director Hugh Cudlipp — was presented as part of the British Press Awards at Grosvenor House, London, on April 8. The judges observed that a new high was set both numerically and in the overall standard of the entries, and said that those responsible for all the work submitted should be proud of their journalistic excellence. The judges were especially impressed by Tom Newton Dunn’s “Friendly fire” series in The Sun (already an award-winner); a Daily Record team’s extraordinary tracing of victims of a 40-year-old murder case; and the Daily Mirror’s campaign on behalf of the Gurkha war heroes — a remarkable piece of journalism very much in the Hugh Cudlipp tradition.But eventually it was another campaign that emerged as the winner: the dramatic and sustained support for British troops returning from Afghanistan and Iraq and a successful appeal for funds to extend a forces’ rehabilitation centre. For the very Cudlippian project, “Help for Heroes”, the Cudlipp Award went to The Sun.
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