Mark Townsend

Mark Townsend was selected for the 2025 Shortlist with The Brutal Truth Behind Italy’s Migrant Reduction: Beatings and Rape by EU-Funded Forces in Tunisia.

Mark Townsend is a senior reporter for the Guardian, covering global development and human rights. He has worked for the Guardian and The Observer, its former sister newspaper, for 24 years, covering many of the world’s major stories and conflict zones, most recently Sudan. He has won a number of awards including news reporter of the year at the Society of Editors press awards.

Mark Wilding

Mark Wilding was selected for the 2025 Shortlist with The Asylum King.

Mark Wilding is an investigative journalist at Liberty Investigates, where he covers human rights. His recent work has included exclusive news stories and investigative features on topics ranging from the UK’s asylum system to police surveillance technology, co-published with partners such as Prospect, the Guardian, the Telegraph, and the Verge. Before joining Liberty Investigates he was a freelance writer and reporter for more than a decade, contributing news and features to titles including the Daily Mirror, the Observer, VICE, and WIRED.