2026 Shortlist

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Belfast Telegraph
Sky News
The Guardian
The i Paper
The Times

Digital Storytelling (National/International)

Daily Mail: Epstein's worldwide web

Financial Times: Inside the 'kill zone'

Financial Times: The dark truth behind supermarket tuna

Sky News: Whites Only

The Economist: The Iran war has entered a new phase
The Guardian: #ToddlerSkincare: the 'dark and exploitative' world of children's beauty videos on TikTok

4. Digital Storytelling (Specialist/Regional)

Birmingham Live/Mail: Deep Cuts

MyLondon: Broken Homes

Newsday: Dangerous Roads

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism: Why aren’t we listening to Indigenous people about the climate crisis?

The Will Hayward Newsletter: Senedd election
What's Happening in Wigan

Live Journalism (National/International)

Bloomberg: Markets Today

Daily Mail: Hurricane Melissa

Financial Times: Middle East war

Politico: POLITICO Pub at Party Conferences
Sky News: Birth Experiences: Your Stories
The Times/Times Radio: Afghan data leak

Live Journalism (Specialist/Regional)

Belfast Telegraph: The Open Championship

BirminghamLive: Ozzy Osbourne funeral

Live Science: Artemis II launch
Nottingham Post: Nottingham Inquiry

Reach Visual Journalism Team: 2026 local elections

The Yorkshire Post: Doncaster Sheffield Airport loan

Newsletter of the Year (National/International)

Financial Times: The AI Shift

Politico: London Playbook

The Economist: The Insider

The i Paper: Politics Unwrapped

The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine Weekly

Newsletter of the Year (Specialist/Regional)

Carbon Brief: DeBriefed

Cheapskate London

Democracy for Sale

Don't Miss Margate

High Life North

The Will Hayward Newsletter

Online Video (National/International)

Daily Mail: 'This runner WAS GIVEN MY IDENTITY then won Olympic gold!'

Financial Times: Scammers, spies and triads: inside cyber-crime’s $15tn global empire

The Economist: Visual investigations

The Guardian: Along the Green Line

Sky News: Fatal shooting of Alex Pretti

The Times: Why This Guerrilla Army Is Winning Colombia's Latest War

Online Video (Specialist/Regional)

Cybernews: The Biggest Hacking Mystery of Our Time: Shadow Brokers

Manchester Evening News: Gorton and Denton by-election

Mongabay: Conservation Entangled

Openly: This LGBTQ+ activist is now an 'extremist' in Russia

Platts, S&P Global Energy: Shadow Fleet: How illicit shipping networks broke global oil trade

The Will Hayward Newsletter: Three things you need to know before voting in the Senedd election

Podcast of the Year (National/International)

BBC Radio 4 + BBC Sounds/Tempo+Talker: Everything Is Fake (And Nobody Cares)

Sky News: Electoral Dysfunction

Sky News/Tortoise Media: The Wargame

The Guardian: The Birth Keepers

The Times and The Sunday Times: The Poppy Day Bomb

The Times and The Sunday Times: The Story

Podcast of the Year (Specialist/Regional)

Clyde 1/Bauer Media: Beware Book

Electrifying.com: Kilowatt Half Hour

Radio Kingston/WKNY: abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast

The Belfast Telegraph: The BelTel

The Bristol Cable: We've Got Your Boy

The Currency: Belfry: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Loss

Reader Revenue Strategy

Don't Miss Media Group

The Belfast Telegraph

The i Paper

The Irish News

The Kyiv Independent

Website of the Year (Specialist/B2B)

Carbon Brief

Electrifying.com

Opta Analyst

Racing Post

Rail

Schools Week and FE Week

Website of the Year (Regional/Local)

Andover Advertiser

Belfast Telegraph

Birmingham Live

Kent Online

SoGlos

The Chelsea Citizen

Website of the Year (National/International)

Bloomberg UK

Financial Times

Sky News

The Guardian

The i Paper

The Times

Best Use of AI

BBC World Service: Inside Russia’s new pro-Kremlin vigilantes

El Vocero de Puerto Rico: noticIA

Nikkei: Ask! NIKKEI

Reach: Mantis Scribe

Reuters: Super Summaries

The Sun: AI live blogs

News Industry Technology Partner of the Year

CounterPress

Mather

Tickaroo

Publisher of the Year

DMG New Media

Politico

SoGlos

The Daily Beast

The Economist

The i Paper

Times Media

Media Innovator of the Year

Alfredo Triviño: ABC
Harry Lewis-Irlam: Daily Mail

Kate Day: Politico

Nick Moar: DMG New Media