The Guardian won three awards at the 2022 British Journalism Awards, including a prize for its Uber Files investigation.
The British Journalism Awards celebrates the best public interest journalism produced for a UK audience, and is open to all publishers and journalists across print, broadcast and online.
The Guardian won the technology journalism award for its global Uber Files investigation that revealed how Uber had broken laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments. The judges said: “this was a great scoop which exposed corporate misbehaviour at one of the world’s biggest technology companies.”
Guardian journalists Harry Davies, Simon Goodley, Felicity Lawrence, Lisa O’Carroll, Rob Davies, Paul Lewis, John Collingridge, Johana Bhuiyan, Rowena Mason and Dan Milmo were all mentioned for their role in the investigation, alongside the BBC’s Panorama team.
The Guardian also won in the social affairs, diversity and inclusion journalism category alongside the BBC for its role in the Tim Westwood: Abuse of Power documentary, and Ed Ram won the photojournalism award for images depicting worshipers visiting the Trapezna Church in Kyiv. The judges said Ed “stood out for the compassion and artistry which he brought to covering the impact of war”.
Guardian journalist Sirin Kale was highly commended in features journalism for her work on cyberstalking, Lost to the Virus and the tourism industry, while Antonia Cundy was highly commended as new journalist of the year, with mention to a Guardian story on equipment shortages in Lviv’s hospitals in Ukraine.
Guardian political editor Pippa Crerar was one of the major winners of the night taking home the woman of the year prize, as well as winning the journalist of the year and politics journalism categories for her previous work at the Mirror.
View a full list of winners here.
