Reporting Diversity Award: Nominees

Scroll down to meet the nominees for the Reporting Diversity Award, sponsored by The Careers Office

The award will recognise a body of work from an individual or team that in the judges’ opinion has played a significant role in creating awareness of issues of diversity in the UK in all its forms. The submitted articles can include news reports, campaigns, spotlight features or interviews.

The Shortlist

 Barnie Choudhury, Eastern Eye

• “Investigate BBC bullies”: MPs call for independent inquiry after BAME producer attempts suicide
• Asian medics on the frontline are still dying
• Commissioner’s concerns over ‘failed’ Asian abuse victims

The judges said: “Choudhury has been consistent in producing high-impact journalism on topics from institutional racism to the disproportionate effect of the pandemic on south Asian and black communities. Because of his investigation into bulling and racism at the BBC, Asian and black MPs have called for a parliamentary scrutiny into this.”

Saba Salman, freelance for The Guardian

• My sister has a learning disability and I can’t visit her because of coronavirus
• Coronavirus restrictions have robbed disabled people of their independence
• ‘My fear is he’ll never come home’: the learning disabled people locked away in lockdown

The judges said: “Salman’s work in driving awareness of the devastating impact of Covid-19 on neurodiverse people has been crucial in highlighting the challenges they face. She also exposes how the hard-won rights of learning-disabled people are shrinking, with dire consequences.”

Sophie Campbell, freelance

• Victim, incompetent or mentally ill? How women navigate the oppressive environment of the 21st century prison
• Why education in women’s prisons is not fit for purpose
• Avoiding the obvious: Crime and race in higher education

The judges said: “Campbell’s emotive and erudite articles on how the ambitions, dreams and prospects of female prisoners, particularly women of colour, are crushed by the system are backed up with hard-earned facts and data. She writes with compassion and knowledge, casting a bright light into a world that few journalists have looked closely into.”