Winners of the Business, Finance and Economics Journalism prize are Dan McCrum @FD, @OlafStorbeck & @stef_palma of @FT whose “brave and dogged” years-long Wirecard investigation was “business journalism at its best” #BJA2020 
Highly commended for Politics Journalism is Anna Mikhailova @AVMikhailova of @Telegraph (now Mail on Sunday) for leading the team that revealed Govt scientist Neil Ferguson had broken his own lockdown rules – “one of the defining stories of the year” #BJA2020
Political Journalism winners are correspondent @PaulBrandITV & producer Dominique Heckels @Dominique_ITV whose Covid-19 care home investigation was a “great example of empathetic and sensitive reporting in the public interest” #BJA2020
Innovation of the Year is @TheScotsman Sessions led by Roger Cox @indoorscots. Judges said the project “kept artists going & it was great to see a newspaper get involved and offer a solution rather than watch from the sidelines”. Thanks to sponsor @GoogleNewsInit #BJA2020
For the second year in a row the Comment Journalism prize goes to @MarinaHyde of @guardian – chairman of the judges @DomPonsford says “at the moment she seems to be comment journalism what Daly Thomson was to the decathalon in the 1980s” #BJA2020
Judges said @MarinaHyde’s work is “sheer joy. The one must-read of the weekend. Surreal times need sometimes surreal writing. The writing may seem flippant, but it is perfect for this period of politics” #BJA2020
The Photojournalism prize goes to Anthony Devlin @devlinanthony of @GettyImages for images that “encapsulate the three dominating UK stories of the last year” #BJA2020
New Journalist of the Year for 2020 is Rianna Croxford @The_Crox @BBCNews who judges described as a “great investigative journalist who constantly reports stories that often go overlooked at the BBC” #BJA2020
Our next award is new this year and named in honour of the UK’s first black on-screen TV reporter, Barbara Blake-Hannah, who was sacked after racist objections from viewers. Part of the prize is a trip to Jamaica! More about Barbara here: pressgazette.co.uk/uk-first-black… #BJA2020
The first winner of the Barbara Blake-Hannah Award is Kuba Shand-Baptiste @kubared for her work for @Independent which judges said “was very much in the spirit of Barbara Blake-Hannah” especially her Black Lives Matter article which “hit all the right notes” #BJA2020
Highly commended in the Features Journalism category – which received a whopping 100+ entries – is Ashitha Nagesh @ashnagesh of @BBCNews who tackled tough subjects in a compelling way and gave a different aspect of the Covid-19 crisis #BJA2020
Features Journalism winner is @sophieelmhirst for her work in @guardian which the judges said gave “moving, sometimes harrowing accounts of people usually overlooked” #BJA2020
The Local Journalism award goes to Jonathan Gibson @jongibsontv for BBC Inside Out West Midlands @bbciowm for his “tenacious local journalism that exposed a huge scandal - and not at some personal risk” #BJA2020
Sadly that will be the last British Journalism Awards entry from Inside Out which is being cut – our judges said “there's a lesson here about what might happen if this kind of reporting is too expensive even for the Corporation” pressgazette.co.uk/regional-freel… #BJA2020
Best Science Journalism goes to @Reuters team @StephenGrey @AndyMacaskill Ryan McNeill (@McNeill_Tweets) Steve Stecklow (@sstecklow) & Tommy Wilkes (@reuterstommy) for “probably the most important series of reports into public health policy during the pandemic” #BJA2020
The Health and Life Sciences Journalism award goes to @jackfostr and @Fraser_Knight of @GlobalsNewsroom in Scotland for what our judges described as a “robust piece of investigative journalism which got results” #BJA2020
We’re now taking a 15-minute break from announcing our British Journalism Awards winners – categories still to come include Scoop of the Year, Marie Colvin, News Provider of the Year, Journalist of the Year and our new prize for Public Service Journalism #BJA2020
Congratulations to our Arts and Entertainment journalism winner, the “talented storyteller” @killianfox0 whose work for @1843mag showed “skill and authority from a writer with real passion for their work” #BJA2020
We’re back! And we have two highly commended for Sports Journalism: the @BBCPanorama who put together the Mo Farah and the Salazar Scandal programme, and @jeffpowell_Mail of @DailyMailUK #BJA2020
Winner of the Sports Journalism prize is Matt Lawton @Lawton_Times whose entries “exemplify his professionalism achieved over many years” according to our judges #BJA2020
Two highly commended in the Interviewer of the Year: @Emmabarnett of @bbc5live who “knows when to be tough and when to be empathetic” and Jan Moir of @DailyMailUK who wrote the “laugh out loud interview of the year” with Barbara Amiel #BJA2020
Interviewer of the Year is of course is Emily @maitlis of @BBCNewsnight for THAT interview with Prince Andrew. The judges said: “It took huge courage and skill to undertake an interview of that stature under pressure at Buckingham Palace” #BJA2020
Foreign Affairs Journalism award goes to Stuart Ramsay @ramsaysky @SkyNews for his reports from the hardest-hit area of Italy in the early days of the Covid-19 crisis– described by judges as a “brave piece of reporting which will have changed a lot of people’s thinking” #BJA2020
Highly commended in the Technology Journalism category is Karl Flinders @Karlfl and the rest of the @ComputerWeekly team who the judges said deserve recognition for “sustained investigation and campaigning” on the Post Office IT scandal #BJA2020
The Technology Journalism prize is awarded to Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy @guardian for “important well-researched journalism” inc exposing allegations that the Saudi crown prince hacked Jeff Bezos’ phone. Thanks to category sponsor @huawei #BJA2020
Now we come to one of our most special awards, the Marie Colvin Award named in honour of the late Sunday Times foreign correspondent to recognise an outstanding up and coming journalist of her calibre #BJA2020
The Marie Colvin Award 2020 is awarded to @Telegraph China correspondent @sophia_yan – judges said she has a “tenacity and seriousness of purpose that Marie Colvin would have admired” #BJA2020
Next up is the Crime and Legal Affairs Journalism category: highly commended is @lizziedearden of @Independent who the judges said “produced a range of high quality exclusive stories on huge matters of public interest.” #BJA2020
Crime and Legal Affairs Journalism winner is Disclosure: Who Killed Emma? by Samantha Poling, Eamon O Connor @eamon53, @ShelleyJofre & @monamcalinden of @BBCScotland. The prog took “huge journalistic skill” and uncovered “damning shortcomings” in the police investigation #BJA2020
Highly Commended in the Specialist Journalism category is Zak Garner-Purkis of Construction News @CNplus for his immense level of dedication to an undercover investigation into slave labour that was “way beyond the norm” #BJA2020
Best Specialist Journalism of the year goes to @LawrenceDunhill of @HSJNews whose Covid-19 work “showed the huge value of journalists who have a specialist beat in these areas” #BJA2020
Now one of our most hotly-contested categories – Scoop of the Year. The winners are @matthew_weaver of @guardian & @PippaCrerar + @jeremyatmirror of @dailymirror for the agenda-setting Dominic Cummings lockdown breach scoop #BJA2020
Anti-Corruption Journalism (sponsored by @Global_Witness) is a new category for 2020 – and the winner is @guardian for its Luanda Leaks investigation – well done @JulietteGarside @davidtpegg @hilaryosborne @burke_jason & @PaulLewis #BJA2020
We have two highly commended entries in the Investigation of the Year category: the first is @FT team for Wirecard – Dan McCrum @FD, @OlafStorbeck, @samgadjones, Paul Murphy & @helenwarrell for their work in the “finest tradition of financial investigation” #BJA2020
Our 2nd highly commended investigation is @bbcthree team @Mobeen_Azhar, Jeremy Lee @jezlee, Wes Thomas & @cateysexton for Hometown: A Killing which “changed the nature of the debate in Huddersfield to confront a huge social problem, the culture of drugs & easy money” #BJA2020
Investigation of the Year goes to @BBCPanorama and @thesundaytimes Insight team for exposing a war crimes scandal which the judges called “an example of proper determination to tell an important story” #BJA2020
The @DailyMailUK Mail Force campaign, which went “above and beyond the call of journalism”, has been awarded highly commended in the Campaign of the Year category - a very close call for the judges #BJA2020
Winner of the Campaign of the Year is @Daily_Express and @ChrisMRiches for the Time To End Cystic Fibrosis Drug Scandal campaign which has improved the lives of many, many young people #BJA2020
Onto one of our biggest and most prestigious awards: News Provider of the Year. The shortlist is: Financial Times, Sky News, Guardian, Daily Mirror, Sunday Times, Daily Mail, PA Media and The Independent #BJA2020
For the third year in a row the @FT is named News Provider of the Year by our judges for its coronavirus data, landmark Wirecard investigation and punching “well beyond its niche with quality journalism which has been quite simply exemplary” across the board #BJA2020
Congratulations to everyone at the winner of News Provider of the Year - the Financial Times @FT #BJA2020
Now we come to a new prize we are launching this year which, in a nod to the Pulitzer’s in the US, we are calling the Public Service Award. This is for an outstanding piece of journalism which went above in exemplifying the extent our trade can be a force for good #BJA2020
The inaugural Public Service Award goes to @DailyMailUK for the Mail Force campaign to supply PPE at the height of the Covid-19 crisis. Judges said there are few news orgs in the world that can rival its “campaigning verve and sheer chutzpah when it takes on an issue” #BJA2020
Time for our final category – Journalist of the Year. Honourable mentions go to @BBCFergusWalsh, @nickwallis, @JCalvertST, @piersmorgan and the team behind the Dominic Cummings lockdown scoop @PippaCrerar @matthew_weaver @jeremyatmirror who were all in contention #BJA2020
The Journalist of the Year award goes to Dan McCrum @FD of the @FT who faced down intimidation, surveillance and personal threats as well as a campaign of disinformation to bring down one of Germany’s most garlanded businesses, Wirecard #BJA2020
Reaction from Journalist of the Year Dan McCrum @FD who was “totally blown away, this is absolutely amazing given the quality of the journalism and journalists out there... It goes without saying that [the Wirecard story] was not a solo effort by any stretch of the imagination”
That concludes the first (and hopefully only!) virtual British Journalism Awards. Congratulations again to all our finalists and winners – and we hope you found the work on display as inspiring as we did #BJA2020
You can still watch the British Journalism Awards virtual ceremony (featuring the amazing moments @sophia_yan @FD & @kubared were told they had won) for 30 days if you register here: …itishjournalismawards.online-event.co/registration/b…
The full list of British Journalism Awards winners 2020 is now available here #BJA2020 pressgazette.co.uk/british-journa…
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