2011
Winner
Gail Champion and Angus Stickler, BBC and Bureau of Investigative Journalism
File on 4: Europe’s Missing Millions
(2010)
Gail Champion (BBC) and Angus Stickler (The Bureau of Investigative Journalism) were awarded the prize for their BBC Radio 4 programme ‘File on 4: Europe’s Missing Millions’ which aired on 30 November 2010.
The programme exposed significant levels of fraud in the spending of the EU’s structural funds. The jury praised the programme’s ‘in-depth research’ and ‘outstanding skill and professionalism’.
Shortlisted nominees
Tony Barber, Financial Times
‘Saving the Euro’
(Series of pieces, 11-13 October 2010)
Bronwen Maddox, Prospect Magazine
‘How the Greeks Broke Europe’
(23 May 2010)
Ian Traynor, Guardian
Series of pieces on the far right and immigration
(April-November 2010)