Malak A. Tantish, the former Gaza correspondent for the UK's famous newspaper The Guardian, has won the 'British Journalism Awards 2025'. He was given this award for his reporting on the Gaza war.
Tantish worked as a correspondent for the Guardian in the Gaza Strip for 18 months of the war that lasted more than two years. Many of his reports have been discussed. Among them, his report on his return to his home after the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in January was one of them.
The British Journalism Awards 2025 were held last Thursday night. Tantish received the prestigious 'Marie Colvin' award in the promising new journalist category.
The award is named after Marie Colvin, a journalist for the well-known UK newspaper The Sunday Times. She was killed while reporting from the besieged Bab Amr area at the beginning of the Syrian civil war in 2012.
Tantish's reporting highlights the impact of Israel's indiscriminate attacks on Gazans. Her reporting on her own family, in particular, has touched everyone. In various reports, she has portrayed the grief of losing loved ones and the horrific aftermath of the Israeli bombing.
In one report, Tantish describes the return of her family to her birthplace of Beit Lahiya, where her home and garden have been reduced to rubble.
In another, Tantish highlights the plight of ‘children of Hadisa’ from a hospital in Gaza.
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The judges for the award said Tantish’s work ‘captures all the hallmarks of Mary’s spirit: courage, empathy with the situation and the struggle to report accurate news even in difficult circumstances.’
Several other Guardian journalists have won the British Journalism Awards 2025. One of them is Harry Davies, who won in the technology journalism category.
Davies worked on a project with the Israeli online media outlet ‘+972 Magazine’. Their research report examined Microsoft's relationship with the Israeli military during the Gaza war.
UK broadcaster Channel 4 News has won the British Journalism Awards 2025 as the best news broadcaster of the year.
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