These are the journalism prize entries
John Arlidge is a freelance journalist who writes for the Sunday Times in London and for Conde Nast in New York.
Ian Cobain is a senior reporter for The Guardian. He won the Paul Foot Award for Campaigning Journalism 2009 for his investigation into British involvement in torture.
Jonathan Foreman is an Anglo-American journalist and film critic. He was film critic for the New York Post (before being sent to cover the Iraq War in 2003) and has written for, among many, The New Yorker, The National Review, and the Daily Telegraph. He is Standpoint‘s Writer-at-Large.
Amelia Gentleman writes on social affairs for The Guardian. She was nominated for the Martha Gellhorn journalism award in 2010 as well as the Orwell Prize. Previously she was New Delhi correspondent for the International Herald Tribune. She won first prize for feature and comment writing in the 2007 Amnesty International Hong Kong Human Rights Press Awards. She won the Ramnath Goenka prize 2007 for best foreign correspondent covering India. Formerly Paris and Moscow correspondent for The Guardian.
Peter Hitchens is a columnist and reporter for the Mail on Sunday, having previously reported from Moscow and Washington for the Daily Express. He has contributed to other publications, such as Prospect and The Guardian, authored documentaries on Channel 4 and the BBC, and appeared elsewhere on radio and television. Peter has also written a number of books, including The Rage Against God, The Cameron Delusion, The Broken Compass, The Abolition of Britain, The Abolition of Liberty and A Brief History of Crime.
Paul Lewis is Special Projects Editor for The Guardian. He was named Reporter of the Year at the British Press Awards 2010 and won the 2009 Bevins Prize for outstanding investigative journalism. He previously worked at the Washington Post as the Stern Fellow.
One of the country’s most respected financial journalists and commentators, Hamish McRae is an associate editor of The Independent. He was named Business and Finance Journalist of the Year 2006 at the British Press Awards.
Cathy joined Channel 4 News as political correspondent in January 2006 – the first on-screen newcomer to the political team for 11 years – and works alongside political editor Gary Gibbon. Since joining, Cathy’s scoops have included the revelation that five illegal immigrants worked at the Home Office, and Gordon Brown insisting on a knighthood for his ally, the Labour donor Sir Ronald Cohen. Prior to arriving at Channel 4 News, Cathy worked as chief political correspondent for the Financial Times for three years. Before that she covered politics and media for the FT.
Arkady Ostrovsky is the Moscow Bureau Chief for The Economist, and his longlisted entry also includes work from Foreign Policy. He has also written for other publications including the Financial Times, Prospect and the Los Angeles Times.
Awarded the Orwell Prize for work published by the London Review of Books and The Independent. Patrick Cockburn was born in Cork in 1950. He divides his time between London and Iraq and is one of the very few Western journalists who still travel outside the Green Zone in Baghdad without an armed escort. He is a foreign correspondent for The Independent and has worked in Moscow, Washington, Jerusalem, Belfast, Beirut and Baghdad. His books include The Occupation, The Broken Boy, and Muqtada al-Sadr and the Fall of Iraq, and he was the recipient of the Martha Gellhorn Award in 2005 and the James Cameron Award in 2006.
Longlisted for work published by the New Statesman. Lindsey Hilsum is Channel 4 News’ International Editor. She has reported from every continent in the world (apart from Antarctica), and is particularly interested in Iran, Afghanistan and Mexico. She was in Baghdad during the 2003 Iraq war, Belgrade during the NATO Kosovo campaign and has worked extensively in Zimbabwe and the Middle East. She spent two years based in Beijing for the programme. Lindsey has won numerous awards, including Royal Television Society awards for her reporting from Fallujah, Beslan and with Palestinian refugees. Before joining the programme she reported for the BBC and The Guardian from Africa and Latin America.
Peter Hitchens is a columnist and reporter for the Mail on Sunday, having previously reported from Moscow and Washington for the Daily Express. He has contributed to other publications, such as Prospect and The Guardian, authored documentaries on Channel 4 and the BBC, and appeared elsewhere on radio and television. Peter has also written a number of books, including The Rage Against God, The Cameron Delusion, The Broken Compass, The Abolition of Britain, The Abolition of Liberty and A Brief History of Crime.
The Independent’s Jerusalem correspondent since 2004, Donald Macintyre was the paper’s Chief Political Commentator for eight years and before that Political Editor of The Independent and The Independent on Sunday. He has written for the Daily Express, Sunday Times, The Times and Sunday Telegraph.
Peter Oborne is a former political commentator of the Spectator, the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail. He now writes about politics for Open Democracy and Middle East Eye. He is the author of ‘The Triumph of the Political Class’, and ‘The Rise of Political Lying’ as well as a biography of the cricket Basil D’Oliveira.
Arkady Ostrovsky is the Moscow Bureau Chief for The Economist, and his longlisted entry also includes work from Prospect. He has also written for other publications including the Financial Times, Foreign Policy and the Los Angeles Times.
As well as writing a column for The Observer, Henry Porter has published six novels, including the recent The Dying Light and Brandenburg (which won the Ian Fleming Crime Writers’ Association Steel Dagger as the best thriller of 2005). He has also written one non-fiction title, Lies Damned Lies, a study of truthfulness in British journalism. He has written for the Sunday Times, The Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph and the Evening Standard. He is the London editor of Vanity Fair magazine.
Paul Vallely writes on social, ethical and religious issues. He is a former executive editor of the Independent on Sunday and of The Sunday Times News Review. He has previously reported from over 30 countries and was the Africa correspondent for The Times. He has written a number of books including Bad Samaritans: First World Ethics and Third World Debt and Promised Lands, a study of land reform in the Philippines, Brazil and Eritrea. He is the editor of The New Politics: Catholic Social Teaching for the 21st Century and A Place of Redemption: a Christian approach to punishment and prison.
Michela Wrong has spent more than 25 years writing about Africa. As a Reuters correspondent in Abidjan
and then Kinshasa, she covered the turbulent events of the mid 1990s, including the fall of Mobutu Sese Seko
and Rwanda’s genocide. She then moved to Nairobi, where she became Africa correspondent for the Financial
Times. Her books include “In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz”, “I Didn’t Do it for You”, “It’s Our Turn to Eat” and
“Borderlines”, a novel set in the Horn. Now based in London, she is researching a non-fiction book on Rwanda.