The BBC Ouch Team
The BBC Ouch! Team – Damon Rose and Emma Tracey who are both blind – have for some years brought the untold, unshared, minutiae of disability life to the fore in a regular podcast and blog. After many years of successfully addressing their audience, this year Ouch! became a part of BBC News.
Eleanor Mills – Sunday Times
Eleanor Mills is associate editor of The Sunday Times. She writes a weekly column in the News Review section of the paper on social affairs as well as one in home on how we live now. She appears regularly on television, reviewing the papers on Sky News, Lorraine, This Morning etc and on radio, including Woman's Hour, BBC London, LBC etc.
Alison Holt – BBC News
Homeless men forced into virtual slavery, elderly people facing neglect and abuse in their own homes and children who have been sexually exploited by gangs. These are just some of the vulnerable people on the edges of society who have been given a voice in Alison Holt's reports.
Mark Townsend – Observer
Mark is currently home affairs editor for The Observer. He has been a journalist for over 15 years starting out at The Western Morning News, a regional paper in the south west of England. He joined The Observer in 2002 and has been environment correspondent and crime, defence and legal affairs correspondent during his time there. He has a long-standing interest in diversity and discrimination issues having been recognised with the Commission for Race Equality Race in the Media award.
Patrick Strudwick – The Guardian
Patrick is one of the UKs leading journalist, winning multiple awards for his hard-hitting approach to sensitive issues. He writes for a variety of different newspapers and magazines, including The Observer, The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, Gay Times and Attitude. He is best known for writing about gay issues, health and music, and for interviewing celebrities.
Margus Haav – Sakala
Margus Haav is 42 years old. He works as a journalist since 1996, the last six years in Sakala, where his main scope is culture. In addition, he is responsible of covering pages about history in the newspaper. For example, dance parties for deaf people, a road made from glass or sacred places – he handles all those different themes considering human-centered approach as the most important.
Dóra Ónody-Molnár - Népszabadság
After finishing her studies in 2006, Dóra Ónody-Molnár started work at Népszabadság, which is the most read and most influential daily political newspaper in Hungary. She is a journalist who specialises in education, gender issues, human rights and equal opportunities.
Caitlin Moran – Saturday Times
Caitlin Moran wrote her first novel, The Chronicles of Narmo, at the age of 15. At 16 she joined music weekly, Melody Maker, and at 18 briefly presented the pop show 'Naked City' on Channel 4. Following this precocious start she then put in 18 solid years as a columnist on The Times – both as a TV critic and also in the most-read part of the paper, the satirical celebrity column 'Celebrity Watch' – winning the British Press Awards' Columnist of The Year award in 2010 and Critic and Interviewer of the Year in 2011.
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