The founder of the Everyday Sexism project has won the inaugural Georgina Henry Women in Journalism Award for Innovation at the Press awards for 2014.
Laura Bates was awarded the prize at the awards event at London’s Marriott Grosvenor Square hotel on Tuesday night.
The other nominees for the award were the GroundTruth Project’s Middle East correspondent Lauren Bohn, reporter and blogger Iram Ramzan, and freelance journalist and Daily Mirror columnist Ros Wynne-Jones.
Women in Journalism launched the annual prize in honour of Henry, the former deputy editor of the Guardian and one of the founders of the campaigning group. Henry’s partner Ronan Bennett and children Molly and Finn were in attendance at Tuesday’s ceremony.
The Times won newspaper of the year at the event, with the judges praising its “searing investigation” into the Rotherham child abuse scandal.
The paper won seven other awards, including two for Andrew Norfolk, the reporter who broke the Rotherham story.
Meanwhile, the Daily Mirror won six prizes, including the digital award, for which the Guardian was highly commended.
The Guardian’s Simon Goodley won business and finance journalist of the year.
Press awards: full list of winners
Young Journalist
Winner: Peter Campbell - Daily Mail
Business and Finance Journalist
Winner: Simon Goodley - The Guardian
Highly commended: Ambrose Evans-Pritchard - The Daily Telegraph
Political Journalist
Winner: Matthew Parris - The Times
Highly commended: Janan Ganesh - Financial Times
Foreign Reporter
Winner: Patrick Cockburn - The Independent and i
Highly commended: Anthony Loyd - The Times
Science and Health Journalist
Winner: Andrew Gregory - Daily Mirror
Highly commended: Steve Connor - The Independent and i
Showbiz Reporter
Winner: Halina Watts - Daily Mirror
Highly commended: Simon Cable - Freelance (Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, The Mail on Sunday) and Richard Brooks - The Sunday Times
Sports Journalist
Winner: Matt Lawton - Daily Mail
Highly commended: Ian Herbert - The Independent and i
Specialist Journalist
Winner: Pilita Clark - Financial Times
Highly commended: Dan Hyde -The Daily Telegraph
Interviewer of the Year (Pop)
Winner: Rebecca Hardy - Daily Mail
Highly commended: Frances Hardy - Daily Mail
Interviewer of the Year (Broadsheet)
Winner: Bryan Appleyard - The Sunday Times
Highly commended: Simon Hattenstone - The Guardian
Feature Writer (Pop)
Winner: Tom Parry - Daily Mirror
Highly commended: Joshi Herrmann - London Evening Standard
Feature Writer (Broadsheet)
Winner: Anthony Loyd - The Times
Highly commended: Patrick Strudwick - The Independent and i
Columnist (Pop)
Winner: Quentin Letts - Daily Mail
Highly commended: Brian Reade - Daily Mirror
Columnist of the Year (Broadsheet)
Mark Steel - The Independent and i
Highly commended: Fraser Nelson - The Daily Telegraph and Howard Jacobson -The Independent
Critic
Winner: David Sexton - London Evening Standard
Highly commended: Michael Deacon - The Daily Telegraph
Photographer
Winner: Rowan Griffiths -Daily Mirror
Highly commended: Ben Birchall - Press Association and Stefan Rousseau - Press Association
Sports Photographer
Winner: Marc Aspland - The Times
Highly commended: Martin Rickett - Press Association
Cartoonist
Winner: Peter Brookes - The Times
Highly commended: Matt Pritchett - The Daily Telegraph
Scoop
Winner: “62p an hour”, Ben Ellery, The Mail on Sunday
Highly commended: “Boxing legend Frank: I’m now a woman”, Matthew Drake, Sunday Mirror and “Fifa Files: Plot to buy the World Cup”, Insight, The Sunday Times
News Reporter
Winner: Andrew Norfolk - The Times
Highly commended: Insight - The Sunday Times and Ben Ellery - The Mail on Sunday
The Digital Award
Winner: Daily Mirror
Highly commended: The Guardian
Front Page
Winner: “Here is the news, not the propaganda” - The Independent on Sunday
Highly commended: “62p an hour” - The Mail on Sunday and “The Vow” - Daily Record
Supplement
Winner: The Times Magazine
Highly commended: Notebook - Sunday Mirror
Business Team
Winner: Financial Times
Highly commended: The Times
Sports Team
Winner: Daily Record
Highly commended: Mail Sport
News Team
Winner: The Sunday Times
Highly commended: Sunday People
The Cudlipp Award
Winner: “My Battle for the Lost Girls of Rotherham” - The Times
Highly commended: “Kids in Crisis” - Daily Mirror
The Journalists’ Charity Award
Winner: Matt Pritchett - The Daily Telegraph
The Georgina Henry Women in Journalism Prize for Innovation
Winner: Laura Bates - Everyday Sexism
Highly commended: Iram Ramzan - Interactive blog for moderate Muslim voices
Chairman’s Award
Winner: Jonathan Grun, emeritus editor, Press Association
Newspaper of the Year
Winner: The Times
