Damian Shepherd
Bloomberg UKDamian Shepherd is a multi-award-winning journalist covering European real estate at Bloomberg News in London.
Damian has a reputation for delivering deep, investigative stories that have uncovered toxic workplace cultures, abuses of power and housing inequalities.
His investigations into the UK housing crisis have helped set the political agenda by highlighting the root causes of the nation’s home shortage through exclusive reporting.
His shortlisted pieces were:
- London Urgently Needs New Homes. Why Can’t It Build Them?
- Complaints About UK Rental Properties Climb to Highest on Record
- Rayner Warns UK’s Target of 1.5 Million New Homes Is a Stretch
You can make statistics sing and you can make numbers tell a very powerful story. That is what Damian has done. Homelessness can sometimes seem as though it is a difficult story to report on, to make fresh and new. Damian uses the analytical ability which is the hallmark of Bloomberg’s journalism, to bring the issue alive.
– Michael Gove, Chair of Judges,
The Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness 2026
