Alex Renton

2010

• Winner—Food Journalist of the Year, Guild of Food Writers. For work in the Times and Observer Food Monthly (Food, famine and climate change: India’s Scorched Earth and All the Bacon Sandwiches).

• Runner-up – Derek Cooper Investigative Food Writer award.

• Runner-up—Amnesty International media award for Tourism is a curse to us (Observer magazine, Sept ‘09), a piece about the destruction of Masai livelihoods and abuse of their rights

2009

• Winner – One World Media Awards, popular TV/print feature. For Lush paddy fields as far as the eye can see. So why can’t this Cambodian farmer afford to feed his family?  (Observer Food Monthly, July ’08)

2008

• Commended, feature writer of the year, Foreign Press Association of London. For The Rape Epidemic, published Observer Woman, (December ’07)

2007

• Runner-up, feature writer of the year, UK Press Gazette Magazine Design and Journalism Awards. For work in the Observer magazines.

2006

• Winner – food writer of the year,  Glenfiddich Food and Wine Awards. For One in ten fish is eaten in Japan. So why don’t they know there’s a shortage? and Still hungry (on global child malnutrition)

• Winner – Glenfiddich Trophy

2001

• Commended – foreign correspondent of the Year, British Press Awards (“Our Guns Arm The Children” – investigation into British government complicity in Sierra Leone militias’ use of child soldiers, 24 May ’00, Evening Standard)

2000

• Commended – Investigative Team, British Press Awards, Evening Standard

1984

• Winner – Sunday Times Young Playwright of the Year (!)