The Sunday Times FIFA Investigation Wins Paul Foot Award

The Sunday Times has been announced as joint winners of the coveted Paul Foot Award for their investigation into the Fifa files.

Insight editor Jonathan Calvert and assistant editor Heidi Blake were announced as joint winners of the Paul Foot Award for their investigation into the Fifa files.

The award – which was set up in the memory of campaigning journalist Paul Foot – aims to recognise the tenacity and diligence involved in investigative and campaigning journalism. Over months of work, The Sunday Times Insight team obtained hundreds of millions of secret documents.

Heidi Blake said: “We’re absolutely thrilled to have won the Paul Foot Award, which consistently celebrates the sort of unflinchingly challenging public interest journalism we admire and aspire to.

“FIFA still refuses to take note of our mountain of evidence showing how badly the World Cup bidding process was corrupted, but winning this award is a great encouragement and we have more explosive revelations coming soon in our book, The Ugly Game.

The Sunday Times was announced as joint winner with Private Eye.

Other shortlisted campaigns were the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Observer and Press Gazette, which was shortlisted for its work to protect journalistic sources.