A SCOTS investigative journalism website has been shortlisted in this year’s British Journalism Awards.
The Ferret – featuring the work of Billy Briggs, Rob Edwards, Jo Skinner, Fiona Davidson, Peter Geoghegan, Rachel Hamada, Lisa Mackenzie and Ally Tibbitt – has been nominated in the digital innovation category, which also includes a shortlisting for Scot, Stephen Khan, editor of The Conversation.
The winners are being announced, in London, on the sixth of next month.
The awards are organised by trade website, Press Gazette.
The shortlist reads, as follows:
Local heroes
Birmingham Mail, Andy Richards
Yellow Advertiser, Charles Thomson
Birmingham Mail, Jeanette Oldham
BBC Birmingham – Inside Out West Midlands, Jonathan Gibson
The Yorkshire Post, Rob Parsons
Business, finance and economics journalism
The Guardian, Simon Goodley
The Sunday Times, Oliver Shah
Wall Street Journal, David Enrich
BBC Panorama – Richard Cookson, Richard Bilton, Andrew Head
Financial Times, Richard Milne
The Times, Billy Kenber
Specialist journalism
Sunday Times security correspondent, Richard Kerbaj
BBC news social affairs correspondent, Alison Holt (with producer Callum May and India Pollock)
Buzzfeed LGBT editor, Patrick Strudwick
Health Service Journal patient safety correspondent, Shaun Lintern
Daily Mail defence correspondent, Larisa Brown
Schools Week, John Dickens
Police Oracle, Ian Weinfass
The New European
Politics journalism
BBC News – Anthony Reuben, Alexis Condon, Tamara Kovacevic, Peter Barnes, Deirdre Finnerty, Beth Sagar-Fenton, Shelley Phelps
Channel 4 News – FactCheck, Patrick Worrall, Georgia Graham and Kieron Bryan
Vice News, Ben Ferguson and Phil Pendlebury
The Observer, Daniel Boffey
The Daily Telegraph, Ben Riley-Smith
Buzzfeed UK, Jim Waterson
BBC News, Laura Kuenssberg
Guido Fawkes, Alex Wickham and Paul Staines
The Times, Rachel Sylvester
Sports journalism
Buzzfeed News and BBC – Heidi Blake, John Templon and Simon Cox
The Sunday Times – Jonathan Calvert, George Arbuthnott and David Collins
Daily Mail, Martha Kelner
Daily Mail, Matt Lawton
The Guardian, Owen Gibson
Science and technology journalism
The Times, Billy Kenber
BBC News at Six, David Brown and Gabriella O’Donnell
The BMJ, Gareth Iacobucci
The Daily Telegraph, Laura Donnelly
The Economist, Natasha Loder
Daily Mirror, Warren Manger
Campaign of the year
The Sunday Mirror for
Birmingham Mail, Andy Richards
i, Emily Dugan
Mail on Sunday
Sunday People, Martyn Halle
Daily Mail, Sean Poulter
Popular journalism
The Sun, Dan Jones
Daily Mirror, Martin Bagot
The Sun, Rob Pattinson, for
Daily Mirror, Ros Wynne Jones
Mail on Sunday, David Rose
Ian Birrell, Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday
Scoop of the year
Daily Telegraph, Charles Moore
Sky News, Stuart Ramsay
The Sun, Dan Jones
Buzzfeed News and the BBC – Heidi Blake, John Templon and Simon Cox
The Guardian, Jamie Grierson
The Sunday Times, Oliver Shah
Health Service Journal, Shaun Lintern
Photojournalism
Getty Images, Carl Court
Getty Images, Jeff J Mitchell
The Sunday Times, Justin Sutcliffe
Mail on Sunday, Philip Ide
Press Association, Stefan Rousseau
The Telegraph, Eddie Mulholland:
Digital innovation
BBC News
The Ferret – Billy Briggs, Rob Edwards, Peter Geoghegan, Rachel Hamada, Ally Tibbitt
Private Eye, Christian Eriksson and Richard Brooks
TechRadar, James Rivington
The Conversation, Stephen Khan
TheGuardian.com
The Times and Sunday Times
Buzzfeed UK – Tom Phillips, Paul Curry, Chris Applegate
Investigation of the year
BBC 5 Live – Adrian Goldberg, Gail Champion, Carl Johnston, Claire Savage
Sky News, Stuart Ramsay
The Sun, Dan Jones
Financial Times, Erika Solomon and Sam Jones
Daily Mail – Katherine Faulkner, Paul Bentley, Lucy Osborne
The Sunday Times, Oliver Shah
BBC Panorama – Richard Bilton, James Oliver, Jonathan Coffey, David Thompson, Andrew Head
Private Eye, Richard Brooks and Christian Eriksson
The Guardian
New journalist of the year
Anna Collinson, BBC Newsbeat
Camilla Turner, The Daily Telegraph
Louise Callaghan, The Sunday Times
Miranda Johnson, The Economist
Mirren Gidda, Newsweek Europe
Ross Kempsell, Flynet News
Will Hazell, Health Service Journal
Zia Weisse, freelance for The Sunday Times and Telegraph
Foreign affairs journalism
Mail on Sunday, Ian Birrell
The Guardian, Angelique Chrisafis
BBC Newsnight, Gabriel Gatehouse
Channel 4 News, Waad Al-Khatib
Financial Times, Erica Solomon and Sam Jones
BBC World Service Team – Chloe Hadjimatheou, Richard Knight, Faisal Irshaid, Amanda Gunn, Tony Jolliffe, Wael Toubaji
The Observer, Emma Graham-Harrison
Daily and Sunday Mirror, Emily Retter
The winners of the Journalist of the year and the Marie Colvin awards will be announced on the night.
The awards’ main sponsor is drink company, Heineken.