The British Journalism Awards reward great public interest journalism regardless of the medium it appears in.
Launched partly as a response to the hacking scandal and the Leveson Inquiry, these awards are now in their sixth year and are seen as the UK's equivalent to the Pulitzer Prize in the US.
The 2018 British Journalism Awards are held in London on 10 December.
Application events and deadlines
Meet the judges
Giles is a former Editor-In-Chief of Property Week who started in journalism at its predecessor Estates Times in 1988. He has also worked as News Editor at the architects’ paper Building Design and as Deputy Editor at Building magazine
Former editor of the Daily Mirror
Giles Barrie is a Senior Managing Director at global PR firm FTI Consulting, based in London.
LUKE BLAIR, VICE PRESIDENT OF COMMUNICATIONS AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Freelance journalist and media consultant
Emeritus professor of journalism at Sheffield University
Michael Crozier is Editorial Director of Crozier Associates
Brian Flynn is a former investigations editor of The Sun.
Former editor of Which?, the Toronto Sun and four UK regional daily newspapers
Roderick Gilchrist is a former Deputy Editor at the Mail on Sunday and New York correspondent for the Daily Mail
Leon Hawthorne is a journalist, broadcaster, erstwhile TV executive and consultant on digital content strategy for newspaper and magazine groups.
Lindsey Hilsum is the International Editor of Channel 4 News, and the author of a forthcoming book
Former editor of The Sunday Times Insight Team and of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism
Stephen Jukes is Professor of Journalism at Bournemouth University's School of Journalism, English & Communication.
Alice Kay is a science press officer, she previously worked at the Science Media Centre and recently moved to Nature Research.
Anthony Longden has been a journalist for nearly 35 years, 22 of them spent as an editor and senior editorial executive in various regional companies in the UK
Director, Urbik
Gren Manuel is formerly executive editor for Europe for the Wall Street Journal and editor of Financial News.
Rob McGibbon is an author and freelance journalist who as written for numerous national newspapers and magazines since 1986. He is also a producer at Scoop Films
Unicorn Digital Media
Former Sunday Mirror political editor with 25 years experience in senior editorial positions on national and regional titles, including Mail on Sunday & Bristol Post.
Ian Murray is an award-winning journalist with almost 40-years’ experience in newsrooms and working with the British media.
A native of Belfast, Northern Ireland, Sam Ogle began his journalistic career on the Belfast Telegraph evening newspaper at the height of the IRA bombing campaign in the 1970s. At that time, and in those circumstances, there was no shortage of hard news to be covered. Later, he plied his trade for four years as an expatriate in the Ivory Coast followed by two years in Senegal and two in New York. Now resident in London, he edited Think Law magazine before specialising for the last thirteen years in the automotive logistics and supply chain industry. He has been editor of several automotive publications and, for the last six-and-a-half years, Automotive Purchasing & Supply Chain. He has moderated, and taken part in, panel discussions at automotive conferences in the UK, the USA, Russia, Turkey, Finland, Belgium, Germany, Austria and Mexico.
Iain Overton is an author and campaigner.
Dominic Young is CEO of Agate
Director of Business and Communications, ECA
Sean Ryan is the media director of Save the Children.
Fergus Shanahan is a former deputy editor and executive editor of The Sun.
Moira Sleight is Editor and Publisher of the Methodist Recorder weekly national newspaper and a Board member of both the Society of Editors and the London Press Club.
Dr Paul Lashmar is Deputy Head of Journalism at City, University of London
Jeremy Thompson retired from Sky News in 2016 after joining thee channel in 1993. He had a 50-year career in journalism and his memoirs, JT Breaking News an Autobiography are due to be published in October
Tim Walker is a writer, author and broadcaster. Formerly the Daily Telegraph's Mandrake diarist and theatre critic, he has more recently edited the Daily Mirror's Heckler election diary.
Former Director, MA in Investigative Journalism, City University London
Dr Karen Fowler-Watt is a former senior BBC journalist
