Paul Morgan-Bentley of The Times picks up the Scoop of the Year prize at the British Journalism Awards 2023. Picture: ASV Photography for Press GazetteThe award-winning Times investigation revealing British Gas was force-fitting pre-payment energy meters into the homes of the vulnerable had the “perfect grounds” for justifying undercover work. Times head of investigations Paul Morgan-Bentley told Press Gazette why his editors and lawyers were persuaded that the expose was “genuinely in the public interest”. Future Of Media USA Our weekly does of strategic insight about the future of news media aimed at US readers. We get really pushed at the Times by our editors and lawyers about whether undercover work is necessary.

Source: The Times February 12, 2024 10:25 UTC