Two Evening Standard campaigns have been shortlisted for the prestigious Cudlipp Award for campaigning and investigative journalism.
Court correspondent Tristan Kirk is nominated for his “powerful work” exposing how the single justice procedure has led to miscarriages of justice.
For Kirk, it follows being shortlisted for journalist of the year by the London Press Club Awards on Tuesday.
The reporter previously won the Private Eye Paul Foot award for investigative and campaigning journalism after exposing “conveyor belt” justice.
The newspaper’s “Show Respect” campaign is also in the running for the same Cudlipp award.
Its “detailed reportage” explored “misogynistic attitudes of teenage boys which, it is claimed, are contributing to an epidemic of violence against women”, the judges added.
Chair of Culipp judges Bill Hagerty, former editor of British Journalism Review, said: “The importance of campaign and investigative journalism grows by the year and the response received from editors and other senior figures in the media industries shows how much they appreciate the inclusion of the admired Cudlipp prize in the London Press Club’s acknowledgements of journalism’s finest work.”
Winners will be announced at the London Press Club Awards on Wednesday, October 16.
The award is named after the late Lord Hugh Cudlipp, a former editorial director of the Daily Mirror and one of the pioneers of 20th Century popular tabloid journalism.
