Collaborative journalism project ‘The Scottish Beacon’ has been shortlisted for two awards at the British Journalism Awards, including Innovation of the Year.

A first of its kind in Scotland, The Scottish Beacon is a collaborative network of independent local and hyperlocal newsrooms serving urban and rural communities. It includes The Orkney News, Shetland News and a host of other publications across Scotland.

The British Journalism Awards  will take place on Thursday 14th December 2023 at the London Hilton Bankside.

The Scottish Beacon is shortlisted in two categories

Innovation of the Year, sponsored by Google News Initiative

Sam Coates, Joe White, Katie Riley, Tom Larkin, Tom Rayner, Edward Clowes and David Mapstone – Sky News/Tortoise Media

• Westminster Accounts

Chris Cook, Polina Ivanova, Ayla Jean Yackley, Adam Samson, Christian Davies, Laura Pitel, Primrose Riordan, Chan Ho-Him and the Visual Storytelling team – Financial Times

• Inside North Korea’s oil smuggling: triads, ghost ships and underground banks
• From ‘paradise’ to hell: How a luxury development in Turkey became an earthquake death trap
• How Russia secretly takes grain from occupied Ukraine

Rhiannon J Davies and Juliana da Penha – The Scottish Beacon

• The Scottish Beacon

Liz Hull and Caroline Cheetham – Daily Mail

• The Trial of Lucy Letby
• Killer Hiding in Plain Sight – The Trial of Lucy Letby: The Inside Story

Lindsay McCoy, Ros Atkins, Marianna Spring, Nick Beake, Alison Benjamin, Harriet Agerholm and the BBC Verify team – BBC

• BBC Verify

Dan Russell, Jenna Thompson and Rachel Gorman – Reach

• WhatsApp Communities

Visual Storytelling team – The Telegraph 

• The Lockdown Files

Women in Journalism Georgina Henry Award, sponsored by Wiggin

Rhiannon Davies – The Scottish Beacon 

Steph Dyson and Lottie Gross – Talking Travel Writing 

Juliana da Penha – Migrant Women Press 

Zoe Paskett – LMAOnaise Comedy 

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