Robyn Vinter

Robyn Vinter was selected for the 2026 Shortlist with Inside the everyday Facebook networks where far-right ideas grow.

Robyn Vinter is north of England correspondent at The Guardian. Previously a freelance investigative reporter, she has written for most British national newspapers, as well as a number of international publications. She won the local hero award at the AOP Awards in 2020 and has also received nominations at the British Journalism Awards, the Press Awards and the Paul Foot Award for investigative and campaigning journalism. She was a fellow of the Reuters Institute at the University of Oxford in 2022. She set up and the ran the investigative news website The Overtake between 2017 and 2020.

Elena Morresi

Elena Morresi was selected for the 2026 Shortlist with Inside the everyday Facebook networks where far-right ideas grow.

Elena Morresi is a multimedia journalist at The Guardian with experience on OSINT techniques and investigative reporting. She is currently pursuing an MA in Intelligence and International Security at King’s College London.

Her work is primarily focused on video journalism and she has a particular interest in conflict and crisis in a rapidly evolving digital landscape. Specifically in the role that archiving social media data has as a record of a war and radicalisation.

Before joining The Guardian she was a UGC consultant at Greenpeace and Led by Donkeys as well as freelancing as a video journalist at The Independent, ITV and others and in film production. She has been part of teams shortlisted for the British Journalism Awards and the Amnesty Media Awards.