Posted on March 25, 2015 by The Orwell Prize -
Suzanne Moore is a columnist for The Guardian. She has written for The Mail on Sunday, The Daily Mail, The Independent, and the New Statesman over the course of her career. She stood as an independent parliamentary candidate in the 2010 general election.
Articles submitted
In the tawdry benefits debate, no politician speaks of moral obligations – so I will – The Guardian, 05/02/2014 My old council flat sold for half a million – this madness can’t end well – The Guardian, 02/04/2014 This politics of denial over immigration is feeding a growing inhumanity – The Guardian, 20/10/2014 Jeremy Clarkson and Ukip are not mavericks, but the bullying face of the establishment – The Guardian, 07/05/2014 Poor children are seen as worthless, as Rotherham’s abuse scandal shows – The Guardian, 27/08/2014 The Scottish independence debate has given politicians what they say they want – engagement – The Guardian, 10/09/2014
Posted on March 25, 2015 by The Orwell Prize -
Rebecca’s work has been published by the Dominion of New York, the Guardian, the New Statesman, the Washington Post, the New Internationalist, the Independent, and Kvinfo. She is a Winston Churchill Travel Fellow, and spent her fellowship reporting on immigration and asylum in Greece, Italy, Spain, France and the UK. Rebecca is writer in residence at Lacuna, a new human rights magazine. She has also worked as an editorial assistant and special correspondent in the Washington Post’s London office, and as a business journalist writing and reporting on private finance initiatives for the Partnerships Bulletin magazine. Taken from Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi
Articles submitted
- Refugee women in the UK: fighting back from behind bars – People on the Move, Open Democracy, 24/02/2014
- Rats in the lunchbox, mould in the mattress: living in squalor in London – Our Kingdom, Open Democracy, 14/05/2014
- Down the Rabbit Hole: single parenthood in austerity Britain – Lacuna, 23/05/2014
- How to build a law centre – Lacuna, 18/07/2014
- Black and Dangerous – Our Kingdom, Open Democracy, 30/09/2014
- Politicians like Calais’ mayor should stop telling tales – New Statesman, 30/10/2014
Posted on March 25, 2015 by The Orwell Prize -
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
Articles submitted
Posted on March 25, 2015 by The Orwell Prize -
Peter Ross is a journalist based in Glasgow and the author of Daunderlust – Dispatches From Unreported Scotland, which was published in 2014. He writes for The Guardian and Scotland on Sunday.
Articles submitted
- From canny scepticism to our chance to dream – Scotland on Sunday, 24/08/2014
- Two to tango or last waltz – Scotland on Sunday, 31/08/2014
- It Could Be Us – Scotland on Sunday, 07/09/2014
- Growing pains – Scotland on Sunday, 14/09/2014 Tears and loathing – Scotland on Sunday, 21/09/2014
Posted on March 25, 2015 by The Orwell Prize -
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.
Submitted articles
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
Posted on March 25, 2015 by The Orwell Prize -
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
Articles submitted
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
Posted on March 25, 2015 by The Orwell Prize -
Since 2005, Martin Chulov has been reporting for The Guardian from the Middle East, covering crises across the Arab world.
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Posted on March 25, 2015 by The Orwell Prize -
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.
Articles submitted
- Lebanon on the brink – Financial Times Weekend Magazine, 17/05/2014
- Iranian bombast belies its interest in a nuclear deal – Financial Times Weekend Magazine, 14/05/2014
- Religion masks a lust for power in the Middle East – Financial Times Weekend Magazine, 08/07/2014
- Look beyond Saudi Arabia for Sunni leadership – Financial Times Weekend Magazine, 08/08/2014
- Isis shows political sophistication as ferocious as its fighters – Financial Times Weekend Magazine, 29/10/2014
- A federal cure for a shattered Middle East – Financial Times Weekend Magazine, 23/12/2014
Posted on March 25, 2015 by The Orwell Prize -
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.
Articles submitted
- A defenceless city can only weep as barrel bombs rain in (£) – The Times, 17/05/2014
- We’ll stay here and die at home, insist Aleppo’s last Christians (£) – The Times, 20/05/2014
- Abducted, beaten, shot: my ordeal in Syria (£) – The Times Saturday Magazine, 04/10/2014
- Orphaned, rejected and afraid: plight of the ebola children (£) – The Times, 01/11/2014
- Anthony Loyd on the war against ebola (£) – The Times Saturday Magazine, 15/11/2014
- Yazidi girls dragged by their hair into sexual slavery and sold for $25 (£) – The Times, 22/12/2014
Posted on May 21, 2014 by The Orwell Prize -
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad is an Iraqi journalist, who has reported from Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and Libya. He is a Guardian foreign correspondent, and writes regularly for the London Review of Books.
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Posted on May 21, 2014 by The Orwell Prize -
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad is an Iraqi journalist, who has reported from Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and Libya. He is a Guardian foreign correspondent, and writes regularly for the London Review of Books. Articles submitted How to Start a Battalion (in Five Easy Lessons) – London Review of Books, 21/02/2013 Diary – London Review of Books, 08/08/2013 Syria’s oilfields create surreal battle lines amid chaos and tribal loyalties – the Guardian, 25/06/2013 Syria’s al-Nusra Front – ruthless, organised and taking control – the Guardian, 10/07/2013 ‘Syria is not a revolution any more – this is civil war’ – the Guardian, 18/11/2013 Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on twitter
Posted on March 26, 2014 by The Orwell Prize -
Suzanne Moore is a columnist for the Guardian. She has previously written for the Daily Mail, the Independent, and the New Statesman.
Submitted articles
In the digital economy, we’ll soon all be working for free – and I refuse – The Guardian, 15/01/2014 The worship of children brings only misery – The Guardian, 23/10/2013 Grayson Perry’s tapestries, weaving class and taste – The Guardian, 08/06/2013 Don’t vilify Russell Brand – he’s right to demand the impossible – The Guardian, 06/11/2013 It’s hard not to be angry when men won’t discuss rape and abuse – The Guardian, 15/01/2013 Boris Johnson’s philosophy isn’t just elitist – it’s sinister – The Guardian, 28/11/2013 Suzanne Moore on twitter
Posted on March 26, 2014 by The Orwell Prize -
Caitlin Moran is a critic and columnist for the Times. She has won a number of awards for her journalism, including the 2010 British Press Awards for best columnist. Her first book, HOW TO BE A WOMAN, was published in 2011.
Submitted articles
I Am A Product Of Welfare UK – The Times, 13th April 2013 The Rats, Riots & Sad Silent Queues: my life under Thatcher – The Times, April 15th 2013 Ironic Bigotry – Not Big, Not Clever – The Times, March 16th 2013 The Bedroom Tax Is An Attack On Society – The Times, October 6th 2013 My Response To The Crisis In Syria – The Times, September 14th 2013 Why Female Genital Mutilation Must End – The Times, August 10th 2013 Caitlin Moran on twitter
Posted on March 26, 2014 by The Orwell Prize -
Peter Oborne is a journalist and author who joined the Telegraph in 2010 after writing for some years for the Daily Mail. He has also written for The Spectator,Prospect, The Observer, The Independent, the Evening Standard and the Sunday Mirror. His books include The Rise of Political Lying and The Triumph of the Political Class, and biographies of Alastair Campbell and Basil D’Oliveira, the latter being named the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2004. He was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize in 2009.
Submitted articles
George Osborne can’t claim credit for IDS’s virtuous reform – The Telegraph, 07/04/2013 This is a state funeral, and that’s a mistake – The Telegraph, 11/04/2013 Is Interpol fighting for truth and justice, or helping the villains? – The Telegraph, 23/05/2013 Conservative radicalism can go too far – The Telegraph, 9/06/2013 Britain betrays its values in its response to the Egyptian coup – The Telegraph, 11/07/2013 Ed Miliband is proving himself to be a brave and adroit leader – The Telegraph, 19/09/2013
Posted on March 26, 2014 by The Orwell Prize -
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. He is the author of Zero-Sum World, published by Atlantic Books in November 2010. He was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for journalism in 2011.
Submitted articles
America cannot live so carelessly forever – Financial times, 07/10/2013 Staying out of Syria is the bolder call for Obama – Financial Times, 13/05/2013 The Chinese dream is Smothered by Toxic Fog – Financial Times, 06/05/2013 Germany is a vegetarian in a world full of carnivores – Financial Times, 09/09/2013 Why I switched sides in the UK’s civil war over Europe – Financial Times, 20/05/2013 The Shadow of 1914 falls over the Pacific – Financial Times, 06/02/2013 Gideon Rachman on Twitter
Posted on March 26, 2014 by The Orwell Prize -
Mary Riddell is a columnist for Daily Telegraph. A former deputy editor of Today, she has written for a number of national newspapers, including The Observer, on social, constitutional and foreign affairs, as well as covering criminal justice and Westminster politics. Her writing awards include Interviewer of the Year in the British Press Awards and a commendation in the feature-writing category. She has twice been named legal journalist of the year by the Bar Council and has previously been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Journalism (2008).
Submitted articles
Titanium Ed And The Iron Lady – Daily Telegaph, 16/04/2013 Is Ed Miliband caught in a trap on Syria? – Daily Telegraph, 18/06/2013 The NHS is not a creaking relic – Daily Telegraph, 16/07/2013 The housing crisis needs new towns – Daily Telegraph, 15/10/2013 The silent majority and immigration – Daily Telegraph, 12/10/2013 What Obama’s deal with Iran can teach us – Daily Telegraph, 26/11/2013
Posted on March 26, 2014 by The Orwell Prize -
Paul Wood is the World Affairs Correspondent for the BBC. He was previously the defence and Middle East correspondent.
Submitted articles
In Syria, Facing Danger From All Sides – Committee to Protect Journalists annual review, 01/02/2013 Face-to-face with Abu Sakkar, Syria’s ‘heart-eating cannibal’ – BBC Online, 05/07/2013 Syria: The Nusra Front – BBC Online, 17/01/2013 Sharia spreads in Syria – BBC Online, 02/07/2013 Syria: a corrupted revolution – The Spectator, 04/05/2013 Assad now has the enemy he wants – The Spectator, 05/10/2013
Posted on March 26, 2014 by The Orwell Prize -
