Shortlist

• https://www.private-eye.co.uk/paul-foot-award

Hear more about these stories in the Page 94 Podcast

• https://audioboom.com/posts/8718911-mini-series-the-paul-foot-award-2025

• Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff
  The Guardian/Reuters Institute
  Out of Sight: Missing People campaign
  Brinkhurst-Cuff movingly told the story of Fiona Holm’s disappearance, asking why it was so overlooked. She supplemented her reporting with a wider investigation into how the media covers missing people.
• https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/forgotten-lives-unpacking-crisis-missing-people-coverage-uk-media

• Patrick Butler & Josh Halliday
  The Guardian
  The carer’s allowance scandal
  Vulnerable carers were taken to court for accidentally claiming carer’s allowance while working part-time – even when some of them had reported their earnings to the DWP. Labour has now set up an independent review.
• https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/15/labour-to-set-up-review-after-carers-allowance-overpayments-scandal

• Laura Hughes
  Financial Times
  Lead poisoning
  In this deeply reported investigation into the effects of lead in paint and in the soil, Hughes asked a provocative question: will lead exposure one day be seen as a scandal on the level of asbestos?
• https://www.ft.com/content/e0f09d7f-5f05-4902-8778-c0ee7a13cbcd

• Aaron Walawalkar & Harriet Clugston
  Liberty Investigates in partnership with Sky News, Metro and The Guardian
  Inside UK universities’ Gaza protest “crackdown”
  The investigation unit at the human rights charity looked at British universities’ harsh measures against pro-Palestinian protests and activism on campus, and the institutions’ close cooperation with police.
• https://libertyinvestigates.org.uk/articles/gaza-protests-uk-uni-leaders-reassured-campus-security-chiefs/

• Jim Waterson
  LondonCentric
  Lime bikes and broken legs
  Waterson’s Substack newsletter uncovered a spate of broken legs caused by the heavy frames of Lime electronic bikes falling on their riders. Who was regulating this Californian company?
• https://www.londoncentric.media/p/lime-bikes-keep-breaking-londoners

• Abi Whistance
  The Liverpool Post
  Investigation into the Big Help Project
  Whistance’s four-part investigation for the Liverpool Post newsletter exposed a housing charity that left residents of its homes living in dire conditions.
• https://www.livpost.co.uk/special-investigation-the-collapsing/