The Wincott Foundation received 111 entries for the 2021 awards. Entries ranged from fine examples of campaigning journalism to complex data analysis. They cover some of 2021’s biggest themes: global supply chains disruption, the tech revolution in finance, greenwashing and of course, the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out.
After two years of enforced shutdown because of the pandemic, the Wincott Foundation will this year return to Mansion House on May 26 for its annual awards lunch where the winners of each award will be announced.
The shortlisted entries in each category are as follows:
Young Journalist of the Year
Oliver Telling (Investors’ Chronicle)
Amy Borrett (Sky News)
Imogen Tew (The Times/Sunday Times)
Josh Roberts (Economist)
Joshua Oliver (Financial Times)
Personal Finance Journalist of the Year
Mary McDougall (Investors’ Chronicle)
Nicolas Megaw (Financial Times)
Claer Barrett (Financial Times)
Rachel Rickard Straus (The Mail on Sunday)
Stephanie Hawthorne (Freelance – Sunday Times, ICAEW, Pensions Expert)
Journalist of the Year, UK Nations and Regions
Sion Barry (The Western Mail and BusinessLive Wales)
Mark Casci (Yorkshire Post)
Clodagh Rice (BBC Newsline, BBC NI)
Data Journalism of the Year
FT Data Team
BBC Shared Data Unit Paul Lynch, Alex Homer, Sam Ferguson
Economist Data Team Guy Scriven, US Technology editor; Callum Williams, Senior economics writer; Jan Piotrowski, Business editor; and Rachana Shanbhogue, Finance editor
John Burn-Murdoch (Financial Times)
Video Journalism of the Year
The Economist (Why It is harder to earn more than your parents ) The Economist’s films team
BBC Panorama (Crisis in Care: Follow the Money)
ITV National News (Amazon’s Waste Scandal Uncovered) Richard Pallot, Patrick Russell, Mariah Hedges, Jessica Omari, Imogen Barrer
Financial Times (SoftBank: piecing the puzzle together) Producer, Director, Editor: Daniel Garrahan; Graphics: Russell Birkett; Camera: Petros Gioumpasis in London; Kaoru Okamoto & Mina Suzuk in Tokyo
Audio Journalism of the Year
Tortoise (Pfizer’s Wars) Ceri Thomas
Radio 5 Live (Wake Up to Money) Presenter: Sean Farrington Editor: Justin Bones
BBC Radio 4 Analysis (Ben Chu’s Funny Money)
Journalist of the Year
Daily Mail (Campaign to save LV) Ruth Sunderland, Group Business Editor, Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday Alex Brummer, City Editor Daily Mail Mark Shapland Associate City Editor Daily Mail Lucy White Chief City Correspondent Daily Mail Archie Mitchell Business Correspondent Daily Mail
Economist (Revolution in Finance) Author: Alice Fulwood, Finance correspondent Edited by John Peet, Senior editor Rachana Shanbhogue, Finance editor
Bloomberg ESG team (ESG mirage and greenwashing) Akshat Rathi, reporter; Cam Simpson, editor; Zachary Mider, reporter; Rachel Adams-Heard, reporter; Hayley Warren, data visualisations
Patrick Hosking (The Times)
Nikkei Asia (Global supply chain breakdown) Cheng Ting-Fang, Lauly Li