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Glenn Patterson has published eleven novels and five works of non-fiction, most recently The Last Irish Question: Will Six Into Twenty-Six Ever Go? (Head of Zeus) He co-wrote the feature film Good Vibrations (BBC Films) and is currently Director of the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast.

Conor Garrett is a BBC audio documentary producer based in Belfast. He makes programmes for BBC Radio 4, Radio 3, World Service and BBC Northern Ireland. His work has been recognised through Celtic Media and PPI awards and Conor won a Special Commendation at the 2021 Prix Europa Festival.

Their shortlisted entries are:

• The Northern Bank Job: Episode One: Unexpected Visitors
• The Northern Bank Job: Episode Five: Cash by the Trolley Load
• The Northern Bank Job: Episode Ten: This Country
• The mystery behind Northern Ireland’s £26.5m bank heist

Gabriel Gatehouse went into journalism after failing to cut it as a jazz pianist. Instead he began cutting reel-to-reel tape with a razor at the BBC’s Russian language service, and has since gone on to become an award-winning foreign correspondent. He is Newsnight’s International Editor.

Lucy Proctor grew up in Swindon and started out in local newspapers and then TV development before joining BBC News in 2010. She produces and presents radio documentaries, podcasts and films specialising in investigative journalism and political subcultures.

Their shortlisted pieces are:

• The Dead Body
• The Basement
• Welcome to the Future

Ali Fowle is a freelance journalist and filmmaker from Edinburgh. Passionate about investigation, her work focuses on illicit trade, trafficking, human rights, law and justice and she has extensive experience on stories related to conflict and civil disobedience. She specialises in the Asia Pacific region where she has lived since 2009.

Aun Qi Koh is an investigative journalist based in Malaysia. Before joining Al Jazeera in 2019, she was a subeditor at online news portal Malaysiakini. She has produced stories on various social justice issues including Malaysian custodial deaths, the plight of Filipino nurses abroad and targeted killings of Afghan women.

Drew Ambrose works across the Asia-Pacific region as a foreign correspondent, investigative journalist and documentary producer. He has been a digital lead for multiple interactive, virtual reality and online projects. His intrepid reporting has won 35 global media prizes including the 2021 One World Media International Journalist of the Year.

Their shortlisted pieces are:

• Inside Myanmar’s Crackdown
• State of Fear
• This is Myanmar’s State of Fear
• Reporter’s Notebook – On the frontlines of Myanmar military’s crackdown

Poppy Sebag-Montefiore is a writer and journalist. She makes podcasts for Tortoise Media, and writes for Granta magazine and The Guardian Long Read.

Her shortlisted pieces are:

• How two BBC journalists risked their jobs to reveal the truth about Jimmy Savile
• School 49
• China’s Missing Tennis Player

Polina Ivanova is a foreign correspondent for the Financial Times, covering Russia and Ukraine. Born in St Petersburg and raised in the UK, she moved back to Russia to cover the country for Reuters, first as a commodities reporter and then a Special Correspondent on the investigative team.

Her shortlisted pieces are:

• ‘Russia’s conscience’ on trial as civil rights group faces closure
• ‘We were running from bullets’: Kazakhstan’s biggest city recovers from unrest
• Navalny protests? Not in this Russian city haunted by massacre at 1962 demonstration
• Russian guardsmen case reveals dissent in security force over invasion of Ukraine

Billy Perrigo is a journalist at TIME magazine who writes mostly about social media and artificial intelligence. Much of his reporting focuses on how tech companies are restructuring power in the world, with a focus on the fallout for marginalized communities, workers, and people living in postcolonial states.

His shortlisted pieces are:

• Inside Facebook’s African Sweatshop
• Facebook Content Moderators in Kenya to Receive Pay Rise Following TIME Investigation
• ‘I Sold My Soul.’ WhatsApp Content Moderators Review the Worst Material on the Internet. Now They’re Alleging Pay Discrimination
• Twitter thread about “Inside Facebook’s African Sweatshop”

Daniel Trilling is a freelance journalist and author who writes regularly for the Guardian, London Review of Books and others about migration, nationalism and human rights. His most recent book, Lights in the Distance: Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe, was shortlisted for the 2019 Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing.

His shortlisted entries are:

• Cruel, paranoid, failing: inside the Home Office
• Dark things are happening on Europe’s borders. Are they a sign of worse to come?
• Fear of refugees must not shape the response to Afghanistan’s crisis

Neil Munshi is an editor at Bloomberg in West Africa. He spent the previous decade at the FT, as a correspondent in Lagos, New York, Chicago and Bombay. He was born in Milwaukee and lives in Lagos with his wife and two children.

His shortlisted entries are:

• In ‘Touriste’, heroic Russians save the Central African Republic. The truth is even stranger
• Russian mercenaries leave trail of destruction in the Central African Republic
• How France lost Mali: failure to quell jihadi threat opens door to Russia
• How the death of Gaddafi is still being felt by Libya’s neighbours

An award winning investigative journalist focusing on conflict, terrorism, refugees and human trafficking. Currently contributing editor to New Lines Magazine and specialist producer for ITV News. His books include To The Mountains: My Life in Jihad, from Algeria to Afghanistan, The Travels of Ibn Fudayl and The Darkness Inside (forthcoming).

His shortlisted pieces are:

• Jailing Jihadists in the West
• A British Ex-Jihadist Reinvents Himself
• The Façade of the Afghan Jihad
• A 1963 Novel Offers Lessons on Racism