The Wincott Foundation received almost 140 entries for its 2023 awards with a host of podcasts, videos, data analysis and written submissions covering all the year’s biggest themes. Subjects ranged from Russia’s shadow oil tanker fleet; artificial intelligence; and our “uninsurable planet” to the forced merger of Credit Suisse; Sharon White and John Lewis; and the toxic culture at the CBI.
Winners in each category will be announced on May 16 at the awards lunch in Mansion House, City of London.
The shortlisted entries in each category are as follows:
Young Journalist of the Year
Antonia Cundy: Financial Times
Charlotte Gifford: Telegraph
Madeleine Ross: Telegraph
Noah Eastwood: Telegraph
Simon Lock: The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
Journalist of the Year, Nations and Regions
Jennifer Williams: Financial Times
Sion Barry: Business Live Wales
Margaret Canning: Belfast Telegraph
Personal Finance Journalist of the Year
Lily Russell-Jones: The Times
Katie Morley: Telegraph
Alex Newman, Madelaine Apthorpe and Lord John Lee of Trafford: Investors’ Chronicle, ‘Lee and the IC’
Data Journalist of the Year
Christian Davies, Primrose Riordan, Chan Ho-him Caroline Nevitt, Steve Bernard, Dan Clark and Sam Joiner: Financial Times
Todd Gillespie, Gavin Finch, Jason Grotto, Sam Dodge and Will Mathis: Bloomberg News
Martin George: Local Government Chronicle
Audio Journalist of the Year
Patricia Clarke and Matt Russell: Tortoise, ‘Helen versus Sam’
Nick Holland, Felicity Hannah, Richard Fenton-Smith, Hugh Levinson and Graham Puddifoot: BBC Radio 4, ‘Uninsurable Planet’
Tim Harford, Felicity Hannah, Phoebe Keane, Louise Clarke and Clare Fordham: BBC Radio 4, ‘Understand the Economy’
Video Journalist of the Year
Ros Atkins, reporter and BBC analysis editor; Neil Breakwell, executive producer October Films; Diana Martin, deputy editor BBC Panorama; Bob Marsden, director; Sachin Croker, producer; Martha Elwell, assistant producer; Lora Jones, video journalist: BBC Panorama, ‘Surviving the Pay Freeze’
Alaric Nightingale, Angus Bennett, Leila Hussain, Neville Gillett and Will Kennedy: Bloomberg, ‘Russia’s Shadow Fleet’
Oobah Butler, Josh Reynolds, Benjamin Zand, Daniel Lucchesi and Tristan Cross: Channel 4, ‘The Great Amazon Heist’
Veronica Kan-Dapaah, commissioning editor; Joe Sinclair, executive producer; Cynthia O’Murchu; executive producer; James Sandy, video journalist; Taro Yokosawa, video journalist; and Richard Topping, video editor: Financial Times, ‘Premier League betting sponsors’
Journalist of the Year
Philip Aldrick: Bloomberg
Will Dunn: New Statesman
Callum Williams and Arjun Ramani: Economist
Owen Walker, James Fontanella-Khan, Arash Massoudi, Stephen Morris and Laura Noonan: Financial Times
Anna Isaac: Guardian