• George Brock, former managing editor of The Times and head of journalism at City University (and a Liveryman of the Stationers’ Company)
   

• Bob Satchwell, executive director of the Society of Editors
   

• Lori Miles, former editor of Mizz, Chat, Take a Break and the London Evening News
   

• Kevin Marsh, former editor of Today and the BBC College of Journalism
   

• David Banks, former editor of the Daily Mirror, New York Daily News, Sydney Daily Telegraph
   

• Philip Knightley, former special correspondent for The Sunday Times and two-time winner of the British Press Awards journalist of the year prize
   

• Robin Morgan, former Sunday Times Magazine editor
   

• Peter Cole, emeritus professor of journalism at City University and former deputy editor of The Guardian and founder editor of the Sunday Correspondent
   

• Dominic Ponsford, editor of Press Gazette

The judges will be looking for journalism which is compelling, revelatory and which makes a difference. It must be both interesting to the public – and in the public interest.

It will be up to the judges to decide how to apply the public interest test, but they must look for a higher standard than just that a story is interesting to the public.

The judges will take into account the level of journalistic skill, professionalism and effort employed to bring new information to light. The work must tell readers something they did not already know.

Work should have have been first published or broadcast between 31 August, 2012, and 1 September 2013.

Judging will take place in October 2013 and will be on a jury-style system with a consensus needed from all the judges before each winner is decided. Journalism will be judged on its merits regardless of the size of news organisation which produces it. Shortlists of awards finalists will be up to eight-strong and aim to include representation across national press, regional press, consumer and business magazines and broadcasting.

All awards finalists will enter the British Journalism Awards hall of fame.

The closing date for entries is 9am, 14 October 2013. Shortlists will be announced on Tuesday, 5 November.

Entries should be made via email to britishjournalismawards@pressgazette.co.uk

Each entry needs to state the award category in the subject line of the email and contain up to three example of work plus an optional supporting statement of up to 300 words.

Examples of work must be provided either as PDFs (for stories which have appeared in print) or as weblinks for work which needs to be viewed online. In the case of broadcast work entrants must provide a link to a website where it can be viewed or send clips via post on CD, DVD or memory stick format to British Journalism Awards, Press Gazette, John Carpenter House, John Carpenter Street, London EC4Y 0AN.

The British Journalism Awards are open to all journalists wherever they work.

Launched partly as a response to the hacking scandal and the Leveson inquiry – they aim to celebrate and promote great journalism which is both interesting to the public AND in the public interest.

The judges include two-time journalist of the year winner and former leading member of the Sunday Times Insight team Philip Knightley (one of only two journalists to achieve this feat), head of journalism at City University George Brock and former Today Programme editor Kevin Marsh.

Event partners include: the Society of Editors, the National Union of Journalists and the Worshipful Company of Stationers.

The aim is to create an awards event with the prestige of the Pulitzers in the US which rewards journalists who not only tell compelling stories but who also make a difference for the better in society.

The inaugural British Journalism Awards was held at Stationers' Hall in the City of London on 4 December 2012. 

Some 250 of the leading names in national and regional newspaper journalism, broadcasting, magazines and online gathered to celebrate prize-winners who included journalist of the year David Walsh of the Sunday Times (pictured below) and the late Marie Colvin who received a special prize for inspiring journalists and improving the reputation of our trade.

The 2013 British Journalism will be held at Stationers' Hall on Monday,  2 December.

The Stationers’ Company has been at the heart of the UK media for 600 years and the awards will be held on the very spot where, 400 years ago, the revision committee met to finalise one of the greatest ever British literary achievements – the King James Bible.

Press Gazette editor Dominic Ponsford said: “The British Journalism is an event which is unashamedly idealistic in its aims, but this doesn’t mean that great popular journalism won’t be recognised. On the contrary, they are as much about celebrating sensational journalism in the mould of that promoted by the Daily Mirror’s Hugh Cudlipp as they are about recognising high-minded investigations of the sort pursued by the Sunday Times Insight Team under Harold Evans.

“Crucially, the British Journalism Awards will recognise the best journalists of the year regardless of the medium they work on – be it print, online or broadcasting.”

The 2012 British Journalism Awards were made possible thanks to support from ASDA, the Science Media Centre and the Stationers' Company.