


Excellence in campaigning and investigative journalism was honoured at the Society of Editors’ Media Freedom Awards 2023 on Wednesday 8 November 2023.
Held at the iconic Banking Hall in London, the high-profile awards, which set the benchmark for a celebration of UK public interest journalism, brought together more than 250 journalists from all sectors of the UK news media for a ceremony presented by ITV News’ Lucrezia Millarini and attended by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Lucy Frazer MP.
Held in association with Grove Gallery with support from Camelot, Newsworks, Cision, the Google News Initiative and Vodafone, a full list of winners appears below. High-resolution images of the event will be added to this page in due course.
Winner: Gary Younge
Winner: Dame Esther Rantzen
Winner: Ashni Lakhani, BBC
Highly commended: Sabrina Miller, Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday
Winner: Dolly Carter, East Anglian Times and Ipswich Star
Highly commended: Lucy John, WalesOnline
Winner: Marina Hyde, The Guardian
Highly commended: Camilla Long, The Sunday Times and Sonia Sodha, The Observer
Winner: Anna Isaac, The Guardian
Highly commended: Paul Morgan-Bentley, The Times and Gordon Rayner, The Daily Telegraph
Winner: Stephen Topping, Manchester Evening News
Highly commended: Charles Thomson, Islington Gazette, Newham Recorder and Romford Recorder
Presented by:
Winner: Piers Morgan, TalkTV
Highly commended: Stuart Ramsay, Sky News
Winner: Stuart Ramsay, Sky News
Highly commended: Christina Lamb, The Sunday Times
Presented by:
Winner: Pippa Crerar, The Guardian
Highly commended: Gabriel Pogrund, The Sunday Times and John Stevens, The Mirror
Winner: Joshua Baker, BBC
Highly commended: Tom Odula, BBC Africa Eye
Presented by:
Winner: Simon Townsley, Telegraph Media Group
Highly commended: Alessio Mamo, The Guardian
Winner: Undercover Hospital: Patients at Risk, BBC Panorama
Highly commended: Stephen Lawrence, The Sixth Suspect, BBC News
Winner: Disclosure: The Great Ferries Scandal, BBC Scotland
Highly commended: SEND investigation, ITV News Anglia
Presented by:
Winner: Lockdown Files, The Telegraph
Highly commended: Confederation of British Industry, The Guardian
Winner: Taser Use, News & Star
Highly commended: Rochdale Boroughwide Housing, Manchester Evening News
Winner: Westminster Accounts, Sky News with Tortoise Media
Highly commended: Lockdown Files, The Telegraph
Presented by:
Winner: Partygate: The Inside Story, ITV News
Highly commended: The Shamima Begum Story, BBC News Long Form Audio
Presented by:
Winner: School Hunger, Evening Standard and The Independent
Highly commended: Clean it Up, The Times
Presented by:
Winner: Awaab’s Law, Manchester Evening News
Highly commended: Knife Crime Taskforce, The Northern Echo
Winner: Bellingcat
Highly commended: Investigate Europe
Winner: Sunday Life
Highly commended: Liverpool Echo
Presented by:
Winner: The Telegraph
Highly commended: Times Media