This category recognises the best comment journalist of the year. The judges are looking for the most incisive comment which has brought new ideas and thinking to bear when discussing a matter of public interest. For print/online entries, please provide up to three examples of work. Broadcasters can submit up to three clips or one entire programme in support of their entry. A supporting statement of up 500 words must also be included. Collaborative entries are accepted. Work should have been published between 1 September 2020 and 31 August 2021 and aimed at a UK audience.
Comment Journalism
Marina Hyde
The Guardian
• Marcus Rashford is showing our failing politicians how to do their jobs
• The truth about why Cummings hasn’t gone: Johnson is too terrified to sack him
The judges said: “This is the second year Marina has taken the prize for comment journalism. Her work is sheer joy. The one must-read of the weekend. Surreal times need sometimes surreal writing. The writing may seem flippant, but it is perfect for this period of politics.”
Marina Hyde
Guardian News & Media
• Welcome to the Westminster apocalypse. Have you thought about theocracy instead?
• Poor Prince Andrew is ‘appalled’ by Epstein. Let that be an end to it
• Dazed and confused, Johnson stumbles into the twilight zone with a police escort
Judges said: “Hyde is clever, innovative and consistently on the ball. She always finds a different way of covering the same subject that everyone else is looking and makes for compulsive reading.”
• When Johnson says we’ll turn the tide in 12 weeks, it’s just another line for the side of a bus