Past Winners and Judges

Judges who have assessed candidates’ submissions in the past include editors of ITN, the Sunday Telegraph, the Mail on Sunday, Daily Express, and Evening Standard.

Previous Geddes Prize winners include journalists now working for The Economist, The Times, The Guardian, Daily Express, Reuters, ITN, BBC radio and television.

Some comments from previous winners:-

ALISON ROBERTS (former arts correspondent, The Times, and arts editor, Evening Standard): ‘Winning the Geddes Prize meant an awful lot to me, and certainly helped my subsequent career. The Times took me on as a graduate trainee in 1991 and the Geddes Prize was a wonderful boost to my CV and I’m convinced it helped me to get the job.’

EMMA BROCKES (former feature writer, The Scotsman; feature writer, The Guardian): ‘I have interviewed Jude Law in Berlin, Doris Lessing in North London, and am off to Kosovo to spend a week shadowing bricklayers from Tyneside as they help to rebuild Pristina. When I won the Geddes Prize, I had never won any money – for anything – and the sum involved was great enough to give my confidence a massive boost. It enabled me to fly to the United States and make those initial job contacts which led my becoming a junior arts journalist on the Wall Street Journal; and it stood out on my CV as some kind of assurance of quality.’

ROBERT NORTON (former writer, The European & Reuters; founder of www.clickmango.com) : ‘The Geddes Prize changed my life.’

PERNILLE RUDLIN (head of e-learning, idesk plc): ‘Winning the Geddes Prize gave me the chance to go to Brazil to investigate the Japanese community in Sao Paolo. It was an amazing experience and I would never have been able to afford it without the prize.

LINDA DAVIES (best-selling novelist): ‘I was absolutely thrilled when I won the Geddes Prize. One major aspect was to boost my confidence in my own abilities as a writer. This is, I think, the best legacy of the Prize. A writer must have confidence to get up every day and deal with the inevitable blank slate that faces him or her. To know that other people value what you create is enormously important.

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