{"id":1843,"date":"2018-06-21T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsmediauk.org\/guardians-amelia-gentleman-wins-paul-foot-award-for-windrush-reporting\/"},"modified":"2024-05-03T09:48:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T08:48:45","slug":"guardians-amelia-gentleman-wins-paul-foot-award-for-windrush-reporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsmediauk.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/21\/guardians-amelia-gentleman-wins-paul-foot-award-for-windrush-reporting\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardian&#8217;s Amelia Gentleman Wins Paul Foot Award For Windrush Reporting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amelia Gentleman of the Guardian has won the prestigious Paul Foot award for investigative and campaigning journalism for her reporting on the Windrush scandal.<\/p>\n<p>The judges commended Gentleman&rsquo;s determination in pursuing the issue, which led to the resignation of Home Secretary Amber Rudd and the Government government&nbsp;loosening its &#8220;hostile environment&#8221;&nbsp;for migrants.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian&rsquo;s editor-in-chief Katharine Viner said: &ldquo;Amelia Gentleman&rsquo;s determined and empathetic reporting exposed a national scandal, and gave a voice to the Windrush generation. Amelia has shown brilliantly that independent, investigative journalism can hold power to account and change the world. I&rsquo;m really delighted for her.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The story focused on immigration troubles wrongly forced upon Commonwealth-born British citizens, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2018\/jun\/19\/the-guardian-amelia-gentleman-paul-foot-award-windrush-generation-reporting\">the Guardian reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The judges were impressed by the tenacity of Amelia Gentleman&rsquo;s work, her determination to tell the stories of the victims of the government&rsquo;s hostile environment policy, and the enormous impact her work had, proving that good reporting really can make a difference,&rdquo; said Padraig Reidy, the chair of the judges.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Hislop, the editor of Private Eye, which runs the awards, said: &ldquo;Congratulations to Amelia Gentleman for a campaign that was revelatory, important and amazingly effective. This was the Windrush scandal &ndash; where a Cabinet Minister was thrown overboard and the ship of state nearly sank.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Front page courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nlamediaaccess.com\/default.aspx?tabId=40\">NLA media access<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amelia Gentleman of the Guardian has won the prestigious Paul Foot award for investigative and campaigning journalism for her reporting on the Windrush scandal.<br \/>\nThe judges commended Gentleman&rsquo;s determination in pursuing the issue, which led to the resignation of Home Secretary Amber Rudd&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Guardian&#039;s Amelia Gentleman Wins Paul Foot Award For Windrush Reporting - News Media Association<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newsmediauk.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/21\/guardians-amelia-gentleman-wins-paul-foot-award-for-windrush-reporting\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Guardian&#039;s Amelia Gentleman Wins Paul Foot Award For Windrush Reporting - News Media Association\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Amelia Gentleman of the Guardian has won the prestigious Paul Foot award for investigative and campaigning journalism for her reporting on the Windrush scandal. 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