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Paul Caruana Galizia and Katie Gunning are co-creators of the Tortoise Media podcast series Londongrad. Their reporting explored how Britain’s leaders opened the country’s doors to Russian oligarchs, welcoming not just money but corruption. And how, after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it has become impossible for them to keep looking away. Londongrad’s findings led to debates in the House of Lords, a vote in the House of Commons, and inquiries by three different select committees.

Their shortlisted pieces are:

• Introducing Londongrad
• Episode one: The advance party
• Episode five: A blind eye
• Episode six: Lord of the spies

Quentin Sommerville is the BBC’s Middle East Correspondent. He has recently been reporting from Eastern Ukraine on the sharpest reality of war, as lived by soldiers and civilians.

His shortlisted pieces are:

• Pinned down by Russian fire in key frontline village
• The making of a young Hero of Ukraine
• Bakhmut: Russian casualties mount but tactics evolve
• Donbas Tank Brigade

Isobel Cockerell is a multimedia investigative journalist. Since October 2018 she has been a reporter for Coda Story, covering disinformation, the war on science and authoritarian technology. She has written and worked as a radio reporter and video journalist covering politics, migration, LGBTQ issues, environmental affairs and culture for platforms such as WIRED, The Daily Beast, the Huffington Post, USA Today, Rappler and Eurasianet. She is the founder and producer of Coda LIVE, a new-format live journalism show bringing stories from all over the world to the stage.

Her shortlisted pieces are:

• The Nazi concentration camps on British soil the UK government tried to forget
• Escaping China’s Surveillance Net
• The Indian migrants lured into forced labor on Mussolini’s farmland
• The Border Industrial Complex

The BBC’s Yogita Limaye along with Imogen Anderson, Sanjay Ganguly and Malik Mudassir Hassan have been unflinching in their commitment to telling the stories of Afghanistan. Operating in a hostile environment for the press, they continue to put a spotlight on Afghanistan’s deteriorating humanitarian situation and the increasing clampdown on women’s freedoms. They have held the Taliban to account on a number of occasions. Their reports also question the accountability of foreign governments, baring the severity of the impact of international sanctions and the freezing of foreign funds, but also covering the plight of those who helped western governments and have been left behind.

Their shortlisted pieces are:

• Afghanistan: ‘I drug my hungry children to sedate them’
• Taliban rule, one year on
• Afghanistan newborn deaths double
• Afghanistan: More restrictions on women’s freedoms

Madeleine Schwartz is a journalist, founder and editor-in-chief of The Dial, a new magazine of international writing. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The London Review of Books, The Guardian, and The New York Review of Books, where she worked as an editor for several years. Her reporting has been featured on NPR and France 24, and she is a regular commentator on the BBC.

Her shortlisted pieces are:

• ‘You got up and you died’
• Trial’s End
• Teaching in the Banlieue

Helen Lewis is a staff writer at The Atlantic, a former deputy editor of the New Statesman, and the author of Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights. She has written for the Guardian, Sunday Times, and New York Times among other publications. Since 2019, she has been on the steering committee for the Reuters Institute for Journalism at Oxford University.

Her shortlisted pieces are:

• The Guggenheim’s Scapegoat
• Gazing Into The Abyss
• White Women’s Tears

Wendell Steavenson is a writer and journalist. She has written for The Guardian, the Financial Times, Granta, and The New Yorker, among other publications, and is the author of three nonfiction books and two novels. Over the past year, she has been reporting from Ukraine for 1843 magazine. She was a Neiman Fellow in 2014 and a Guggenheim Fellow in 2021. Her book Circling the Square was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Books in 2016.

Her shortlisted pieces are:

• The inside story of Chernobyl during the Russian occupation
• Electric shocks, savage dogs and daily beatings: three weeks in Russia as a Ukrainian prisoner-of-war
• The barista-partisan who targeted the Russians in Kherson
• East of Mariupol: what happened to the Ukrainians who fled to Russia?

Sean Morrison is a reporter for the Bristol Cable, specialising in social issues and investigations. The publication of After the Fall concluded a year of original reporting on issues facing council tenants in one of Bristol’s tower blocks, set in the context of a city struggling with an overwhelmed social housing system, for the Bristol Cable’s Life in Lansdowne series.

His shortlisted pieces are:

• After the fall: a death at Lansdowne Court
• Life in Lansdowne: Calls for change from the scene of a tragedy
• Life in Lansdowne: ‘It’s not safe for my boys, but the other options are just as bad’
• Life in Lansdowne: ‘He should have been removed long ago’

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