British International Journalist of the Year award
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The International Journalist of the Year award (recently the Foreign Reporter of the Year) is one of the honours given annually by the British Press Awards
. The journalist to have won the award most often (seven times, to 2005) is Robert Fisk
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British Press Awards
The British Press Awards is an annual ceremony that celebrates the best of British journalism. Established in the 1970s, honours are voted on by a panel of journalists and newspaper executives...
. The journalist to have won the award most often (seven times, to 2005) is Robert Fisk
Robert Fisk
Robert Fisk is an English writer and journalist from Maidstone, Kent. As Middle East correspondent of The Independent, he has primarily been based in Beirut for more than 30 years. He has published a number of books and has reported on the United States's war in Afghanistan and the same country's...
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Foreign Reporter of the Year
- 2010 J. S. TissainayagamJ. S. TissainayagamJayaprakash Sittampalam Tissainayagam is a Sri Lankan journalist...
, North Eastern Monthly - 2009 Dan McDougallDan McDougallDan McDougall is a Scots foreign correspondent. A former New Delhi-based South Asia Correspondent for The Observer Newspaper he has filed reportage from over 50 countries including India, China, Pakistan, Afghanistan, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, The Lebanon and the Palestinian territories...
, The ObserverThe ObserverThe Observer is a British newspaper, published on Sundays. In the same place on the political spectrum as its daily sister paper The Guardian, which acquired it in 1993, it takes a liberal or social democratic line on most issues. It is the world's oldest Sunday newspaper.-Origins:The first issue,... - 2008 Ghaith Abdul-AhadGhaith Abdul-AhadGhaith Abdul-Ahad is an Iraqi journalist who began working after the U.S. invasion and has written for The Guardian and Washington Post and published photographs in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Times , and other media outlets...
, The Guardian - 2007 Christina LambChristina LambChristina Lamb is a British journalist who is currently Foreign Correspondent for The Sunday Times. She was educated at University College, Oxford and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society...
, The Sunday Times - 2006 Hala JaberHala JaberHala Jaber is a Lebanese-British journalist. She was born in West Africa and currently writes for The Sunday Times. Jaber was awarded the Amnesty International Journalist of the Year Award in 2003. She won Foreign Correspondent of the Year at the British Press Awards in 2005 and 2006 for her...
, The Sunday TimesThe Sunday Times (UK)The Sunday Times is a Sunday broadsheet newspaper, distributed in the United Kingdom. The Sunday Times is published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News International, which is in turn owned by News Corporation. Times Newspapers also owns The Times, but the two papers were founded...
(see also British Press Awards 2006British Press Awards 2006The British Press Awards is an annual ceremony that has celebrated the best of British journalism since the 1970s. A financially lucrative part of the Press Gazette's business, they have been described as "the Oscars of British journalism", or less flatteringly, "The Hackademy Awards".The British...
) - 2005 Hala Jaber, The Sunday Times
- 2004 James MeekJames MeekJames Meek was Minister of Cambuslang from 1774 until his death. He was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1795, but is most remembered as the model Enlightenment cleric who wrote the entry for Cambuslang in the First Statistical Account of Scotland.-Biography :James...
, The GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format... - 2003 Mark FranchettiMark FranchettiMark Franchetti is the Moscow-based journalist for The Sunday Times. Fluent in five languages, Franchetti was awarded the British Press Award in 2003, after reporting on the Moscow theatre siege, and a Foreign Press Association award in 2004 for his reports on the alleged abuse of Iraqi civilians...
, The Sunday Times - 2002 Christina Lamb, The Sunday Telegraph
- 2001 Marie Colvin, The Sunday Times
- 2000 Jon SwainJon SwainJon Anketell Brewer Swain is an award-winning British journalist and writer who was portrayed by Julian Sands in the 1984 Oscar-winning film The Killing Fields...
, The Sunday Times - 1999 John Lichfield, Independent on Sunday
- 1998 Anton Antonowicz, The Daily Mirror
- 1997 Ed VulliamyEd VulliamyEd Vulliamy is a British journalist and writer. His mother is the children's author and illustrator Shirley Hughes and his grandfather the Liverpool store owner Thomas Hughes. He was educated at the independent University College School and at Hertford College, Oxford before becoming a journalist...
, The Guardian - 1996 Robert FiskRobert FiskRobert Fisk is an English writer and journalist from Maidstone, Kent. As Middle East correspondent of The Independent, he has primarily been based in Beirut for more than 30 years. He has published a number of books and has reported on the United States's war in Afghanistan and the same country's...
, The Independent - 1995 Robert Fisk, The Independent
- 1994 Shyam Bhatia, The ObserverThe ObserverThe Observer is a British newspaper, published on Sundays. In the same place on the political spectrum as its daily sister paper The Guardian, which acquired it in 1993, it takes a liberal or social democratic line on most issues. It is the world's oldest Sunday newspaper.-Origins:The first issue,...