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We are delighted to confirm the shortlists in this year's ABSW Awards: many congratulations to everyone who has been shortlisted and huge thanks to all the category judges who have worked so hard over the past six weeks to produce these shortlists from nearly 300 submissions across 14 categories.
This year's Awards Ceremony will take place online on the evening of Thursday 08 July - more detail to follow later this month.
Editor of the Year
Ben DEIGHTON, SciDev.Net
Fiona GODLEE, The BMJ
Nigel PRAITIES, the Pharmaceutical Journal
British Science Journalist of the Year
Tom CHIVERS, UnHerd
Clive COOKSON, Financial Times
Nicola DAVIS, The Guardian
Special mention: Chrissie Giles, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism
Feature of the Year - general audience
Natalie HEALEY, Extreme cold is bringing humans back from the brink of death, freelance for WIRED UK
Amit KATWALA, Inside big tech’s high-stakes race for quantum supremacy, WIRED UK
Alice KLEIN, Rethinking Miscarriage, New Scientist
Jane QIU, Chasing Plagues, freelance for Scentific American
Feature of the Year - specialist audience
Elizabeth GIBNEY, How a small Arab nation built a Mars mission from scratch in six years, Nature
David ROBSON, Vaccinating against viruses of the mind, freelance for The Psychologist
Angela SAINI, Stereotype threat, freelance for The Lancet
Newcomer of the Year
Catarina CARRAO, freelance
Layal LIVERPOOL, freelance/New Scientist
Sabrina WEISS, Wired UK (now Neue Zürcher Zeitung)
News Analysis or Explanatory Reporting of the Year
Juanita BAWAGAN, Covid-19: Why are so many BAME patients dying?, freelance for BBC Science Focus
Graham LAWTON, Science in crisis, New Scientist
Debora MacKENZIE, What happens next? freelance for New Scientist
Tom WHIPPLE, Safe to send children back? The Times
News Item of the Year
Graham LAWTON, The hope of immunity, New Scientist
Heidi LEDFORD, Coronavirus shuts down trials of drugs for multiple other diseases, Nature
Joe PINKSTONE, Kawasaki-like disease affecting children IS caused by the coronavirus and can only be diagnosed by antibody tests, scientists confirm, MailOnline
NUJ Stephen White Award for communication and reporting of science in a non science context
Slavea CHANKOVA, Flattening the curve, The Economist
Rohin FRANCIS, Doctor gives six reasons to be optimistic about coronavirus, YouTube
Sue MITCHELL with Richard HANNAFORD, Winifred ROBINSON and John WRIGHT, The NHS Front Line, BBC Radio 4
Opinion Piece or Editorial of the Year
Kamran ABBASI, Covid-19: politicisation, “corruption,” and suppression of science, The BMJ
Anjana AHUJA, Would it be better to divert early booster shots to the unprotected? freelance for the Financial Times
Edward CARR, Going global, The Economist
Research Policy or Funding Story of the Year
Maria DELANEY, On social welfare, unable to buy a house: The reality facing Ireland's academics, Noteworthy.ie
Helen SHEN, Meet this super-spotter of duplicated images in science papers, freelance for Nature
Richard VAN NOORDEN, The ethical questions that haunt facial-recognition research, Nature
Royal Society Audio Award
Philip BALL with Alex MANSFIELD, Led by the science?, BBC Radio 4
Jason HOSKEN with Natasha LODER , Rosalind Franklin - her discoveries are more relevant than ever, The Economist
Dimitri HOUTART with Anne-Marie BULLOCK and Tom HEAP, Costing the Earth: The Great Leaky Loo Scandal, BBC Radio 4
Andrew LUCK-BAKER with Kevin FONG and Rami TZABAR, 13 Minutes to the Moon Season 2 - Death of the Odyssey 2, BBC World Service
Special mention: Sue NELSON with Richard HOLLINGHAM, Window on the universe, BBC World Service
Steve Connor Award for Investigative Journalism
BARNES Hannah and COHEN Deborah, The Tavistock's Gender Identity Development Service, BBC Newsnight
Chrissie GILES with Madlen DAVIES, Rosa FURNEAUX, Ben STOCKTON, Ben DU PREEZ, Stretched, secret supply chains hold Covid-19 patients' lives in the balance, Bureau of Investigative Journalism
Benedikt HEUBL, UK climate change sceptics group is stronger than ever, E&T Magazine
Video Story of the Year
Noah BAKER with Davide CASTELVECCHI, Inside Japan's Big Physics| Part one: Super Kamiokande, Nature/YouTub
Melissa HOGENBOOM with Pierangelo PIRAK, The strange idea that we are not in control of our minds, BBC Global News
The Dr Katharine Giles Award for best popular article written by a scientist or engineer
Sheena CRUICKSHANK, Inflammation: the key factor that explains vulnerability to severe Covid, The Conversation
Jamie HARTMANN-BOYCE, Coronavirus and diabetes: the different risks for people with type 1 and type 2, The Conversation
Sir David SPIEGELHALTER, When politicians cite Covid-19 statistics, they may be wrong – it doesn't mean the numbers are, University of Cambridge
The 2022 Awards will open for submissions in December 2021. If you are not a member of ABSW, sign up for our newsletter for updates.