All The Winners
The Paul Foot Award was set up in memory of Paul Foot, the great journalist and campaigner who died in 2004. Winners of the award since its inception in 2006 are as follows:
2025 - Patrick Butler & Josh Halliday
The Guardian
The carer’s allowance scandal
2024 - Tristan Kirk
Evening Standard
Single Justice Procedure: Conveyer Belt Justice
2023 - David Conn
The Guardian
Michelle Mone & VIP PPE
2022 - Hannah Al-Othman & David Collins
The Sunday Times
The Murder of Agnes Wanjiru
2021 - Robert Smith & Team
Financial Times
The Unravelling of Lex Greensill
2020 - Alexandra Heal
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
Nowhere To Turn
2019 - Emily Dugan
Buzzfeed
Access to Justice
2018 - Amelia Gentleman
The Guardian
Long-term UK residents classed as illegal immigrants
2017 - Emma Youle
Hackney Gazette
The Hidden Homeless
2014 - Jonathan Calvert & Heidi Blake / Richard Brooks & Andrew Bousfield
Sunday Times / Private Eye
The FIFA Files / Shady Arabia & The Desert Fix
2013 - David Cohen
Evening Standard
Gangs in London
2012 - Andrew Norfolk
The Times
Child sexual exploitation
2011 - Nick Davies
The Guardian
Phone Hacking at the News Of The World
2010 - Clare Sambrook
Various publications
End Child Detention Now
2009 - Ian Cobain
The Guardian
Torture of Terror Suspects Overseas
2008 - Richard Brooks / Camilla Cavendish
Private Eye / The Times
Sale of Actis / Child Protection
2007 - David Leigh & Rob Evans / Deborah Wain
The Guardian / Doncaster Free Press
British Arms Trade / Doncaster Education City Project
2006 - David Harrison
Sunday Telegraph
Sex trafficking gangs
2005 - John Sweeney
Daily Mail
Shaken Baby Syndrome
