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Hello and welcome back to our mini series for the Paul Foot Awards.

We're speaking every day this week to a brilliant journalist or team of journalists

shortlisted for this year's Paul Foot Award.

So without any further ado, let's get on with today's mini episode and find out who is up for the award today.

My name is Charlie Brinkhurst Cuth, and the

publications that these stories were published in with The Guardian and the Reuters Institute for

the study of Journalism. Can you tell me what is the story that brought you to the

Paul Footer was this year? So I started researching how the media reports are missing people and how we can improve our coverage for Reuters and published a research paper with them and then sort of summarised that for an opinion piece of The Guardian.

And then I pitched a series of long-form articles also to The Guardian looking into some of the issues that were kind of raised in my research.

And specifically, I started with the story of a woman named Fiona Holm, who went missing in

23. And her body still hasn't been found.

The genesis of this story came some years ago, didn't it?

I think you wrote about something that happened when you were working as a young reporter.

Was it at the Times?

Yeah, so I wasn't working as such, but I was on work experience.

And I think it was in 2014.

I was there.

And I've spoken about this quite a lot actually in the past but it is important context I think because it has genuinely shaped my whole career this incident.

Basically I was on the news desk and a news editor came in to the newsroom and he sort of announced to the newsroom that

there was a particular missing case that he wanted a reporter to cover.

And the way in which he described the reasons for covering this case were based on the characteristics

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