The Guardian and Observer have been nominated for more than 20 honours at this year’s Press Awards, including for daily and Sunday newspapers of the year.
Twenty-seven entries from the Guardian and eight from the Observer have been shortlisted across 22 different categories by the judges of the UK’s most prestigious journalism awards. The Guardian has also been nominated for news website of the year.
Journalists up for awards include the Guardian’s Emine Sinmaz and Shanti Das of the Observer, who are nominated for news reporter of the year, and the Guardian’s political editor, Pippa Crerar, who is shortlisted for political journalist.
Two separate Guardian projects have been selected in the investigation of the year category: a year-long investigation into Sellafield by Anna Isaac and Alex Lawson, which exposed major security breaches and a toxic culture at the Cumbria nuclear site, and an investigation with the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 and the Hebrew-language outlet Local Call into Israel’s attacks on the international criminal court.
The Guardian is also nominated twice for campaign of the year, for a series of articles about the carer’s allowance scandal, and Killed women count, telling the stories of every woman allegedly killed by a man in the UK throughout 2024.
The Guardian investigative reporters Stephanie Kirchgaessner and Lucy Osborne are nominated twice, firstly for showbiz reporter for their investigation into alleged sexual misconduct by the entertainer David Copperfield. They are separately nominated for special journalist of the year for this and other investigations.
Four Guardian and Observer journalists are nominated for broadsheet interviewer of the year: Simon Hattenstone, Charlotte Edwardes, Eva Wiseman and Tim Adams. A further four are shortlisted for broadsheet columnist of the year: Marina Hyde and Nesrine Malik for the Guardian, and Kenan Malik and Sonia Sodha for the Observer.
Shaun Walker, the Guardian’s central and eastern Europe correspondent, makes the list for foreign reporter of the year, while the Observer’s Robin McKie and Jay Rayner are nominated for science and technology journalist and critic of the year respectively.
The Guardian’s Saturday magazine has been shortlisted for supplement of the year.
For the Guardian, Jenny Kleeman is considered for broadsheet feature writer and Kevin Rushby for travel journalist. The Guardian’s environment editor, Damian Carrington, and the environment reporter Helena Horton are shortlisted for environment journalist of the year.
In the business and finance category, the Guardian has two nominations: Tom Burgis’s long read examining how oligarchs took on the UK fraud squad and won, and a project with the Bureau of Investigative Journalism into Roman Abramovich.
Tom Jenkins is nominated for sports photographer of the year for the Guardian, and for cartoonist of the year, both Ben Jennings and Stephen Collins of the Guardian make the cut.
The awards will be presented at a ceremony in London on 22 May.
• This article was amended on 13 February 2025 to cite the Hebrew-language outlet Local Call as a co-collaborator in the Guardian’s investigation into Israel’s attacks on the international criminal court.
