Congratulation to Iain Cobain who last night won the Paul Foot award for investigative journalism.
The Guardian journalist won the award for his investigation into Britain's involvement in the torture of terror suspects detained overseas.
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
The Paul Foot shortlist is revealed
Private Eye have announced the shortlist for this year's Paul Foot Award for Campaigning Journalism 2009.
There are six entries
Jonathan Calvert and Clare Newell, Sunday Times whose Insight team exposed a number of financial and legislative abuses in the Lords.
Ian Cobain in the Guardian who has covered a long-running investigation into Britain’s involvement in the torture of terror suspects detained overseas.
Ben Leapman from the Telegraph whose investigation into MPs’ expenses began in 2004, and culminated in a series of articles published in the Sunday Telegraph and Daily Telegraph in May 2009.
Paul Lewis whose Paul Lewis’s investigation into the death of Ian Tomlinson at the G20 protests in the spring established that a police officer had struck Tomlinson with a baton and pushed him to the ground moments before he died near the Bank of England on 1 April in the Guardian.
The Yorkshire Post's Paul Waugh whose exposure of cavalier spending at Leeds Metropolitan University involved examination of thousands of staff credit card statements and a wider investigation into the management culture surrounding the university.
Stephen Wright and Richard Pendlebury from the Mail whose investigation into ShahrokhMireskandari’s background on both sides of the Atlantic revealed his criminal past and the bogus nature of his qualifications and claims of experience.
There are six entries
Jonathan Calvert and Clare Newell, Sunday Times whose Insight team exposed a number of financial and legislative abuses in the Lords.
Ian Cobain in the Guardian who has covered a long-running investigation into Britain’s involvement in the torture of terror suspects detained overseas.
Ben Leapman from the Telegraph whose investigation into MPs’ expenses began in 2004, and culminated in a series of articles published in the Sunday Telegraph and Daily Telegraph in May 2009.
Paul Lewis whose Paul Lewis’s investigation into the death of Ian Tomlinson at the G20 protests in the spring established that a police officer had struck Tomlinson with a baton and pushed him to the ground moments before he died near the Bank of England on 1 April in the Guardian.
The Yorkshire Post's Paul Waugh whose exposure of cavalier spending at Leeds Metropolitan University involved examination of thousands of staff credit card statements and a wider investigation into the management culture surrounding the university.
Stephen Wright and Richard Pendlebury from the Mail whose investigation into ShahrokhMireskandari’s background on both sides of the Atlantic revealed his criminal past and the bogus nature of his qualifications and claims of experience.
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