David Watt Prize

The David Watt Prize is an annual award.

It is endowed with £ 10,000 and is awarded to authors who have made a name for themselves in better communicating (national / international / global) politics . Authors are nominated who published articles <5000 words in an English-language newspaper or magazine in the previous year.

The award was launched by the Rio Tinto Group . It is intended to commemorate David Watt (1932–1987), one of the outstanding British political journalists of his generation.

Award winners (selection)

• 1997: John Lloyd
• 1999: Charles Leadbeater ( The Independent )
• 2002: Philip Stephens ( Financial Times )
• 2003: David Gardner ( Financial Times )
• 2004: James Blitz ( Financial Times )
• 2005: Hamish McRae ( The Independent )
• 2006: Sophie Pedder ( The Economist )
• 2007: Richard Tomkins ( Financial Times )
• 2008: Jonathan Freedland ( The New York Review of Books )
• 2009: no award