The Guardian reporter Amelia Gentleman was named the journalist of the year at the British Journalism Awards in London for her work on the Windrush scandal. The Observer journalist Carole Cadwalladr was also honoured at the ceremony in London on Monday night, winning in the technology journalism category for her investigations into Cambridge Analytica and the use of personal data in political campaigning. The judges at the awards, organised by Press Gazette, said it combined “high-quality writing with revelation on a matter of real public interest”. The judges chose Cadwalladr’s Observer story Revealed: 50m Facebook files taken in record data breach and the Channel 4 News piece Data, Democracy and Dirty Tricks: Cambridge Analytica Uncovered. Channel 4 News went undercover to reveal how Cambridge Analytica secretly campaigns in elections across the world.”The awards are the latest in a run of recent honours for the pair.

Source: The Guardian December 11, 2018 00:33 UTC