Clare Sambrook picked up her second award for investigative journalism last night by collecting the Bevins Prize (aka the Rat Up a Drainpipe trophy). Last week, she won the 2010 Paul Foot award.
In both cases she won for her reporting about the incarceration of immigrant families and particularly the issue of child detention.
Almost all of her work was published on the website OurKingdom, the UK section of openDemocracy.net. She has written widely on the subject in newspapers too, including The Guardian.
Here is her latest article, published on Monday, UK government's slippery response on the 'moral outrage' of child detention.
Sambrook is the guiding light behind End Child Detention Now, an organisation that sprang from a successful campaign to release a child and his parents from Yarl's Wood immigration detention centre, where he had been held for more than three weeks, in July 2009.
To learn more about Sambrook's refreshing style of journalism - which she calls "investigative comment" - read Anthony Barnett's piece.
Rightly, Barnett argues that she is following in an honourable tradition dating back to William Cobbett.
By chance, next Monday I will be lecturing to my City University students on campaigning and investigative journalism, and the Sambrook approach will get a good airing.
And one important extra point, of course, is that she did this on the net. It is the first time that a web journalist has won either the Foot or Bevins awards.
