Wincott shortlists – award winners to be announced on May 9 at Mansion House

by Tony Major

The Wincott Foundation received 150 entries for the 2022 awards, covering all of the year’s biggest themes – and more. With a host of podcasts, videos, written submissions and data analysis, subjects ranged from the war in Ukraine and the energy crisis to inflation, the mortgage catastrophe, UK mini-budget, the climate crisis, porn and profit, and FTX and crypto’s downfall.

Winners in each category will be announced on May 9 at the awards lunch in Mansion House, City of London.

The shortlisted entries in each category are as follows:

Young Journalist of the Year

Freya Pratty – Sifted
Luke Barr – Mail on Sunday
Lucca de Paoli – Bloomberg
George Nixon – Times and Sunday Times
Josh Oliver – Financial Times

Personal Finance Journalist of the Year

Claer Barrett – Financial Times
Peter Ranscombe – freelance (submitted articles for Scottish Field Magazine)
Emily Jayne White – Money Saving Expert 

Data Journalism of the Year

Tom Calver – Sunday Times
Matthieu Favas – Economist (Energy insecurity; war in Ukraine)
The Economist data team (Putin dragging world back to bloodier time) – Sondre Ulvund Solstad, Adam Roberts, Andreas Moor, Matt McLean, Evan Hensleigh, Bo Franklin
Michael Simmons – Spectator
Anna Lawlor – “Typical!” Freelance for Loftus Media, submitted to BBC Radio Four
Financial Times Climate Change Game – Sam Joiner, Leslie Hook, Climate Change project team, Patrick Mathurin and Chris Campbell of Data Rich

Journalist of the Year, UK nations and regions

Peter Ranscombe – freelance (submitted articles for Press & Journal)
Jennifer Williams – Financial Times
Scott Wright – The Herald
Lauren Phillips – The Western Mail / Business Live Wales

Video Journalism of the Year

Panorama: The Post Office Scandal – Matt Bardo, Tim Robinson, Sandy Smith, Diana Martin and Karen Wightman
Panorama: The Billion Pound Savings Scandal – Luke Mendham, Andy Thompson, Mike Lewis, Sandy Smith, Karen Wightman
BBC 2: The Decade The Rich Won – Victoria James, Sam Collins, Jecca Powell, Alex Ayandele Pascall, Mike Radford

Audio Journalism of the Year

BBC Radio Four: Is the UK the new sick man of Europe? – Dharshini David, Caroline Bayley, and Richard Fenton-Smith
Financial Times: Hot Money: porn, power and profit – Patricia Nilsson and Alex Barker
BBC Disclosure team: Good Ship Brewdog – Mark Daly, Myles Bonnar , Kevin Anderson and Shelley Jofre
BBC Radio Four: The Lowball Tapes – Andy Verity and Sarah Bowen.

Journalist of the Year

David Smith – Sunday Times
Cheng Ting-Fang, Lauly Li, Shunsuke Tabeta and Kim Jaewon– Nikkei Asia
Jan Piotrowski – Economist
John Burn-Murdoch – Financial Times
Faisal Islam – BBC News
Emily Gosden – The Times

*Martin Lewis, previously shortlisted by judges for Personal Finance Journalist of the Year, has asked for his submission to be withdrawn. Martin says he decided to withdraw in order to “open the path for more up and coming journalists in the field”.

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