JOURNALIST

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

 

· 2010 Runner-up—Amnesty International media award for Tourism is a curse to us (Observer magazine, Sept ‘09), 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? published Observer Food Monthly, July 2008

 

· 2008 Commended, feature writer of the year, Foreign Press Association of London.
For The Rape Epidemic, published Observer Woman, December 2007

 

· 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 2000, Evening Standard)

 

· 2000 Commended – Investigative Team, British Press Awards, Evening Standard

 

· 1984 Winner - Sunday Times Young Playwright of the Year (!)

Ololokoswan, Tanzania, Feb 2009              pic Caroline Irby

I made these Xmas earrings myself