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The #PaulFootAward was set up in memory of revered investigative journalist, Paul Foot.

#Britain urgently & desperately needs much more high quality investigative #journalism than ever, at a time when cuts to journalism are being made. 🇬🇧

#WorldPressFreedomDay

Paul Foot worked variously for the Daily Record, the Daily Mirror, The Guardian, & @PrivateEyeNews.

He was involved in many high-profile campaigns throughout his illustrious career, including the Birmingham Six, the Bridgewater Four and the John Poulson scandal.

Paul's accolades include the Journalist of the Year, the Campaigning Journalist of the Year, the George Orwell Prize for Journalism, and in 2000 he was honoured as the Campaigning Journalist of the Decade.

Paul died in 2004 at the age of 66.

.@PrivateEyeNews has announced the longlist for the 2023 #PaulFootAward for Investigative & Campaigning Journalism. The list was chosen from a very strong, wide-ranging field, this year's award having attracted the highest number of entries in its history.
private-eye.co.uk/paul-foot-award

With absorbing, in-depth and impressive entries from regional, national and global media outlets, journalists have shown once more that there are always new stories to unearth and new ways to tell them.

The winner of the award will be awarded £5,000 at a ceremony on 6 June.

@LiamThorpECHO - Liverpool Echo:

'Councillors used back door to beat parking fines'.

Liam's investigation exposed how local politicians in Liverpool used an informal system to get a free ride for illegal parking. The series of splashes resulted in resignations from the council.

@lukejbutterly & @VikramDodd - The Detail, the Guardian, & Irish Times:

'How police share data on migrant victims of crime with the Home Office'.

NI Police shared details of immigration status of crime victims, raising questions about trust between immigrants & police.

Belfast's The Detail discovered how the

@deankirby_ - The i newspaper:

'The pre-payment meter scandal'.

The i uncovered how magistrates' courts were waving through the forced installation of expensive pre-payment meters at the height of the energy price crisis, leaving vulnerable people exposed to spiralling costs.

@pmorganbentley - The Times:

'British Gas breaking into the homes of the vulnerable'.

Undercover investigation highlighted the human & inhuman side of the pre-payment meter scandal, with first-hand accounts of bailiffs' awful behaviour, prompting swift political reaction.

@Matt_A_Shea, @JamieTahsin, & @tim_hume - Vice World News:

'The dangerous rise of Andrew Tate'.

A long-running investigation by Vice into misogynist online influencer Andrew Tate, revealing that the UK authorities missed opportunities to prosecute him for sexual offences.

Phil Coleman (@InCarlisle) - Newsquest:

'Cumbria Human rights group condemns "dangerous" police taser use'.

Publication of police bodycam footage revealed how officers had attacked & tasered a Cumbrian man having a mental health crisis, contradicting the police account.

@Gabriel_Pogrund & @HarryYorke1 - Sunday Times:

'The BBC chairman, the prime minister and the £800,000 loan guarantee'.

The story of how Richard Sharp was appointed BBC chairman weeks after helping Boris Johnson secure a loan of up to £800,000.

@GavinFinchBBG, @jasongrotto, @_ToddGillespie & Sam Dodge - Bloomberg News:

'Consumers foot the bill for traders "manipulating" UK power market'.

Traders at UK's power-trading firms manipulated prices to hold users to ransom even as domestic energy users were under pressure.

@selamgkidan & @jane__bradley - The New York Times:

'Race and justice in England's courts'.

A three-part investigation by NYT reporters revealed how legislation on issues such as modern slavery and conspiracy disproportionately affects black and minority communities.

@hansummers - The Observer/the Guardian:

'The use of unregulated psychologists in the family courts'.

Worked with Beatrix Campbell to revealed how unregulated "experts" can testify as credible witnesses on the subject of parental alienation in family court cases.

@david_conn - The Guardian:

'Revealed: Conservative peer Michelle Mone and her family secretly received millions from "VIP lane" PPE firm'.

In-depth reporting revealed how Baroness Mone & her three adult children had been secretly paid £29m from the profits from PPE contracts.

News media job cuts in the UK and North America ran at the rate of 1,000 jobs a month in the first quarter of 2023.

Across Q1 2023 there were at least 3,340 job cuts reported or announced at publishers in the UK, US and Canada.

pressgazette.co.uk/media_business…

Under pressure, some publications or "news" broadcasters turn to #clickbait, or play to their increasingly polarised crowds by telling readers, listeners, & viewers only what they think they want to hear – sometimes even when they know it’s not true.

A third of journalists said maintaining credibility as a trusted news source was one of their major challenges, a study by Cision found, while more than half felt the public had lost trust in the media over the previous 12 months. instituteforpr.org/cision-state-o…