2010 : Clare Sambrook for her investigating , reporting and campaigning against the government policy of locking up asylum-seeking families in conditions known to harm their mental health , and scrutinising the commercial contractors who run the detention centres for profit . A Special Lifetime Campaign Award of £ 2,000 was also presented to Eamonn McCann for his 40 years of campaigning journalism on behalf of the victims of Bloody Sunday . Each of the runners-up on the shortlist received £ 1,000 . These were , in alphabetical order :
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday (1972)
Paul Foot Award