Media awards 2015

Steven Yoder

Steven wins for his Comstock’s Magazine article ‘Legal English as a Second Language – Why can’t lawyers communicate like other humans?’

Heather Hogan

Heather wins for her article for website Autostraddle about the alternate reality constructed daily by our Kick in the Pants winner Fox News – ‘This Is How Fox News Brainwashes Its Viewers: Our In-Depth Investigation of the Propaganda Cycle’.

Celia Walden

Celia wins for her article ‘The perils of jargon: a plea to speak in plain English’ which highlights ‘how social workers, hospitals and others eschew straight-talking in favour of language they think makes them sound more intelligent’.