The Guardian foreign correspondent City University, London, and chair of the judges, said the award recognised the work of a journalist “who writes and thinks in the James Cameron spirit – that is to say original, eloquent, iconoclastic, perhaps somewhat rebellious and wide-ranging”.
He added: “We looked for someone who brought a touch of incisive wisdom to bear on a variety of subjects. And we found one: this year’s winner has written – at a variety of lengths up to and including books – on subjects from WikiLeaks to the dismemberment of Ukraine and the surveillance revelations of Mafia State: How One Reporter Became an Enemy of the Brutal New Russia; Reuse this content