The Bad Press Awards
Campaigning for Truth and Trust in Britain's feral press

BAD PRESS AWARDS 2017

Because a bad press is worse than bad sex... 

Every year the Bad Press Awards will seek nominations for some of the most transparently inaccurate and inflammatory newspaper stories, sponsored content on news sites, and self serving conflicts of interest in the media.  

After a call for nominations to end in April 2018, a team of judges will then select a shortlist, with the winners in each category to be announced in early at the next Byline Festival in a ceremony hosted by John Cleese.

TRUST AND TRANSPARENCY

The Byline Festival also hosted the first Gavin MacFadyen Memorial Award to be presented annually to a publisher or journalist who has helped a whistleblower expose the truth.

This year's winner was Private Eye.

Find out more at the Whistler Site. 

For all the fun, this prize giving is a serious campaign to out the worst of the press, raise standards and keep the media honest by holding them to account. 

For this reason, the Bad Press Awards is part of a not-for-profit community interest company, The Byline Foundation, dedicated to help communities misrepresented and under-represented in journalism.