The Guardian has been honoured with four awards at the Foreign Press Association (FPA) Media Awards. The FPA Media Awards honour excellence in journalism, celebrating the work of journalists in the UK and internationally.
Jonathan Watts won science and environmental story of the year for a Guardian Cities piece exploring how concrete can have enormous dangers to the planet, human health and culture.
The travel and tourism story of the year was won by Margaret Simons for her article on the children sex tourists leave behind, which ran in Guardian Weekend.
The financial and economic story of the year was awarded to Guardian Long Read for Samanth Subramanian’s piece on hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands.
Guardian Long Read also scooped sports story of the year for Tom Lamont and Tom Jenkins article on Dulwich Hamlet: the improbable tale of a tiny football club that lost its home to developers – and won it back.
The Guardian has received a total of seven nominations at this year’s FPA, with five nominations for the Guardian Long Read alone.
The full list of winners can be found here.
