These are the journalism prize entries
Rosie Blau is China correspondent for The Economist. @RosieBlau
Park Life -The Economist, 19/12/2015 Young, single and what about it? – The Economist, 29/08/2015 The King and I – The Economist, 29/08/2015 Dream of the bed chamber – The Economist, 21/11/2015 The critical masses – The Economist, 11/04/2015 Almost home – The Economist, 10/ 10/2015
Oliver Bullough is a journalist and the author of two books about Russian history and politics: The Last Man in Russia, and Let Our Fame Be Great which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Books in 2011. @oliverbullough
James Astill is The Economist’s Washington correspondent and the fomer Political Editor and Bagehot columnist. @jamesmastill
Bagehot: Leaner but meaner – The Economist, 21/05/2015 Bagehot: The view from Grimsby – The Economist, 25/04/2015 David Cameron: A lucky leader in an unlucky time – The Economist, 25/04/2015 Bagehot: The End of Industry – The Economist, 27/06/2015 US civil-military relations: Who will fight the next war? – The Economist, 24/10/2015 Donald Trump: The Greatest Show on Earth – The Economist, 05/12/2015
Rachel Sylvester is a political columnist at the Times. @RSylvesterTimes
Osborne, the shape-shifting chancellor – The Times, 07/07/2015 Ministers at odds of Saudi prison deal – The Times, 13/10/2015 Labour is the party for down and out losers – The Times, 01/12/2015 Don’t abandon religion to the extremists – The Times, 08/12/2015 Labour is becoming the woman-hating party – The Times, 29/12/2015
Louise Tickle is an education and social affairs journalist. @louisetickle
David Gardner is International Affairs Editor at the Financial Times.
Shiraz Maher is a freelance journalist and a Senior Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, King’s College London. @ShirazMaher
Ed Miliband’s critics hate him for his success – The Spectator, 14/02/2015 HSBC, Muslims and me – BBC Radio 4, 28/07/2015 From hubris to hell – Daily Mail, 26/12/2015 The siege of Damascus: everyday life in Syria’s savage war – Middle East Eye, 28/09/2015 The New Language of Political Narcissism – Standpoint Magazine, 01/03/2015 The hypocrites have jumped aboard the Magna Carta – The Daily Telegraph, 08/01/2015
Gideon Rachman became chief foreign affairs columnist for the Financial Times in July 2006. He joined the FT after a 15-year career at The Economist, which included spells as a foreign correspondent in Brussels, Washington and Bangkok. He also edited The Economist’s business and Asia sections. His particular interests include American foreign policy, the European Union and globalisation.
Iona Craig is a freelance journalist. In 2015, she was recognized for her work as a Yemen correspondent at The Times of London, for which she was the recipient of the 2014 Martha Gellhorn prize.
David Smith has been Economics Editor of The Sunday Times since 1989, where he writes a weekly column. He is also chief leader-writer, an assistant editor and policy adviser. He also writes columns for The Times and other publications.
James Meek is a writer and journalist, the author of five novels, most recently The Heart Broke In, and two books of short stories, as well as Private Island, a collection of essays about privatisation. His novel The People’s Act of Love won the Ondaatje Prize and was nominated for the Booker Prize. Meek was named Foreign Correspondent of the Year in 2004 in Britain’s Press Awards for his reporting on Iraq and Guantanamo Bay. He worked for the Guardian from 1994 to 2006. He is a contributing editor to the London Review of Books. Taken from The Guardian
Anthony Loyd is a war correspondent who writes regularly for The Times and contributes to other publications. He has written two books about his experiences in war zones in Chechnya, Yugoslavia, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and Iraq: My War Gone by, I Miss it So and Another Bloody Love Letter.
David Gardner is the FT‘s international affairs editor and author of Last Chance: The Middle East in the Balance. He was the paper’s Middle East editor from 1995-99. In 2003 he won the David Watt prize for political journalism for his writing on the Arab world.
Since 2005, Martin Chulov has been reporting for The Guardian from the Middle East, covering crises across the Arab world.
Rosie Blau is China correspondent for The Economist, based in Beijing. She joined The Economist in May 2011 as a reporter on the Britain section, where she covered energy, transport and a range of other areas. She was then seconded to Intelligent Life as Associate Editor. Prior to joining The Economist she worked at the Financial Times. Her jobs there included Books Editor, Leader Writer and Assistant World News Editor. She served as a judge for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2010. Taken from The Economist
Empire of the Pig – The Economist, 20/12/2014 The Power of Xi Jinping – The Economist, 20/09/2014 The art is red – The Economist, 20/12/2014 A matter of honours – The Economist, 22/11/2014
Ian Birrell is a contributing editor of The Mail on Sunday, though he writes columns regularly in several other papers, including The Guardian and The Economist. He was a speech-writer for David Cameron before the 2010 general election, and co-founded Africa Express, an organisation promoting African music.
Graveyard of desecration – The Mail on Sunday, 20/07/2014 Please, let American jets bomb my prison… – The Mail on Sunday, 17/08/2014 Our medical advances have outstripped our humanity – The Guardian, 08/08/2014 Bill Gates preaches the aid gospel but is he a hypocrite? – The Guardian, 06/01/2014 Britain’s refusal to save migrants is an act of inhumanity – The Guardian, 29/10/2014 Bonfire of the ebola victims – The Mail on Sunday, 28/09/2014