Former editor wins Marie Colvin prize for improving reputation of journalism,while Guardian’s HSBC Files series wins investigation of the year and Patrick Kingsley named foreign affairs journalistAlan Rusbridger has been awarded the Marie Colvin prize for improving the reputation of British journalism during his 20 years at the helm of the Guardian.
Judges of the British Journalism Awards called Rusbridger, now principal of Oxford University’s Lady Margaret corridor, or a digital visionary who had “overseen some of the biggest journalism investigations of our time”,citing the phone-hacking scandal, WikiLeaks, and Edward Snowden and the HSBC files.
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Source: theguardian.com