A Times Higher Education reporter has been named higher education journalist of the year at a prestigious awards ceremony.

Deputy news editor John Morgan topped the Outstanding Higher Education Journalism category at the Chartered Institute of Public Relations¡¯ annual Education Journalism Awards.

His winning submission explored how US universities were responding to the challenges they face in the era of Donald Trump¡¯s presidency, covering the issues of extremist speakers on campus, environmental erosion in the Gulf of Mexico?and the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Two other THE journalists were on the five-strong shortlist for the category: deputy features and opinions editor Jack Grove, and reporter David Matthews.

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John Gill, THE editor, described the award as ¡°deserved recognition for a truly agenda-setting journalist¡±.

¡°These pieces are illustrative of John¡¯s approach, providing serious, unflinching journalistic scrutiny to issues that really matter,¡± Mr Gill said. ¡°His journalism contributes a great deal to the health and vitality of higher education.¡±

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Mr Grove was also nominated for the Outstanding National Education Journalism prize, while his colleague Rachael Pells made the shortlist in the Most Promising Newcomer to Education Journalism category.