JRF supports new journalism prize

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation supports a new journalism prize

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) is supporting a new prize for in-depth journalism.

‘The Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain’s Social Evils’ will be awarded for the first time in 2015.

The name is taken from the task given to the JRF by its founder: ‘to search out the underlying causes of weakness or evil’ that lay behind social problems in Britain.

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