Who will be Press Gazette’s Person of the Year? The search is on for the person who has made the greatest impact – good or bad – on the world of journalism in 2004. Press Gazette readers are invited to vote in our second annual Person of the Year poll.
Your vote might go to a journalist, an editor, a chief executive or an owner. It might even be a lawyer or a politician.
Contenders could include: Lord Hutton, for his damning report into the BBC and the David Kelly affair; Greg Dyke, for fighting back after his sacking by the BBC governors; Simon Kelner or Robert Thompson, for taking their broadsheets wholly into the compact era; Phil Hilton or Paul Merrill, for establishing the men’s weekly magazine market with Nuts and Zoo; freelance Lee Gordon, for setting up a hospital for amputee children in Iraq; Maurice Frankel, whose long campaign for Freedom of Information will finally bear fruit on 1 January; Lord Falconer, for driving through the implementation of the FoI Act; or embedded NBC journalist Kevin Sites, for his pictures of a US Marine killing an apparently unarmed man in Fallujah; Sly Bailey for sacking Piers Morgan; and Piers Morgan for being Piers Morgan.
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These are just our suggestions. You are welcome to make your own nominations.
Last year Andrew Gilligan was considered to have made the greatest impact, thanks to his ill-fated Today programme broadcast Send your votes, marked Press Gazette Person of the Year, by post to the usual address or alternatively by e-mail to pged@pressgazette.co.uk by Thursday 9 December.
The winner, based on your votes and the deliberations of a Press Gazette panel, will be announced in our final issue of the year on 17 December
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