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Congratulations to @eleanor__myers at Politico on winning the Wincott Foundation’s Young Journalist of the Year!
ALT Eleanor Myers accepts the award from the Wincott Foundation's chair Lionel Barber
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The Wincott Foundation’s chair Lionel Barber said: “The judges praised Eleanor’s intelligent reporting on economic crime, ranging from sanctioned Russian oligarchs and their London real estate to the trials and tribulations of the National Crime Agency.”
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Congratulations to @MishalHusain and the team at the Mishal Husain Show on winning the Wincott Foundation’s Audio Journalism of the Year Award!
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Thank you @wincottfound for this, for our episode with @mustafasuleyman! And sooo happy for colleagues Harry Wilson and Jonny Browning, who won for their brilliant Epstein work
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The Wincott Foundation’s chair Lionel Barber said of the show’s 12 December interview: “A gripping interview with Mustafa Suleyman, where Microsoft’s head of AI reveals his ambitions for super intelligence...
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...Mishal’s skills were on full display as an interviewer at the top of her game.”
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Congratulations to Greg Kohs and Gary Krieg at @DartmouthFilms on winning the Wincott Foundation’s Video Journalism of the Year award!
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The Wincott Foundation’s chair Lionel Barber said: “In a highly contested category, the judges voted for the long-form documentary about AlphaFold, the project for which AI entrepreneur-scientist Sir Demis Hassabis won the Nobel Prize...
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...The film, five years in the making, offers insights into the role of venture capital, the state and the development of artificial intelligence.”
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Congratulations to Jonathan Guthrie at the Financial Times on winning the Wincott Foundation’s Personal Finance Journalist of the Year Award!
ALT Jonathan Guthrie accepts the award from the Wincott Foundation's chair Lionel Barber
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The Wincott Foundation’s chair Lionel Barber said: “The veteran FT commentator excelled with wry humour and deep insights in the style of Harold Wincott. His topics - Gen X’s pension problem, inheritance planning and private medical insurance - were right on the money.”
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Congratulations to @jimwaterson at @London_Centric on winning the Wincott Foundation’s Journalist of the Year Nations and Regions Award!
ALT Jim Waterson accepts the award from the Wincott Foundation's chair Lionel Barber
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The Wincott Foundation’s chair Lionel Barber said: “The judges unanimously applauded Jim's deep and original reporting of the seamier side of London’s business scene, summed up by the headline ‘The snail farmer, his mafia friends and a vendetta against the taxman’...
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...Jim’s start-up 'Londoncentric' shows there is space in the market for bold, inventive journalism.”
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Congratulations to Laura Dubois, Oliver Hawkins, @xtophercook and the multi-disciplinary computational journalism team at the Financial Times on winning the Wincott Foundation’s Data Journalism of the Year Award!
ALT Laura Dubois and Chris Cook accept the award from the Wincott Foundation's chair Lionel Barber
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The Wincott Foundation’s chair Lionel Barber said the team were “worthy winners for their work on European rearmament using radar satellite data; their investigation into how much money the Trump White House has made from selling meme coins...
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...and using AI to show how companies have talked a big game on AI but results come short of the mark.”
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Thank you @wincottfound for this, for our episode with @mustafasuleyman! And sooo happy for colleagues Harry Wilson and Jonny Browning, who won for their brilliant Epstein work
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This afternoon, the Wincott Foundation was pleased to give Bloomberg's Harry Wilson, Jonathan Browning and Jason Leopold our Journalism of the Year award for their reporting on the Epstein Files. They were announced as winners at the our annual Mansion House awards lunch.
ALT Jonathan Browning and Harry Wilson accept the Journalism of the Year award from the Wincott Foundation's chairman Lionel Barber, former editor of the Financial Times.
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The Foundation's chair Lionel Barber said: "In a highly contested category - more than 50 entries this year - Bloomberg’s reporting on the Epstein files ultimately carried the day. They won a ruling which opened up emails showing Prince Andrew’s ties...
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...to the New York networker were closer than claimed, and they exposed the deep ties between Epstein and Jess Staley, former CEO of Barclays. A story on Lord Mandelson derived from the Epstein files led to his firing as UK ambassador in Washington. Great journalism with impact."
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