2023 Journalism prize winner

Gary Younge

The Guardian, The New Statesman, We Are Unedited

Gary Younge is an award-winning author, broadcaster and a professor of sociology at the University of Manchester in England. Formerly a columnist at The Guardian he is an editorial board member of the Nation magazine and the Alfred Knobler Fellow for Type Media. His book Another Day in the Death of America was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Books in 2018 and in 2021 he was also shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Journalism for bringing ‘the eloquence of an expert journalist and the depth of an academic’ to his reporting on the role of racism and inequality in the pandemic.

His shortlisted pieces are:

• Lest We Remember: How Britain buried it’s history of slavery
• How racism shaped my critical eye
• Facts That Matter