The Scoop of the Year award is one of the honours given annually by the British Press Awards.
| Year | Newspaper | Scoop | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | The Sunday Times | Police: We found porn on deputy PM’s computers as part of the 2017 Westminster sexual misconduct allegations.[1] | Won by Tom Harper, Jon Ungoed-Thomas and Richard Kerbaj. | |
| 2011 | News of the World | Pakistan cricket spot-fixing controversy[2] | Associated award: reporter Mazher Mahmood won "News Reporter of the Year"[3] Nominees: David Laws expenses scandal, The Daily Telegraph; Vince Cable undercover sting, comments, The Daily Telegraph; WikiLeaks revelations (Afghan War files, United States diplomatic cables leak), The Guardian; phone hacking scandal, The Guardian; FIFA World Cup corruption scandal, The Sunday Times; Wayne Rooney vice allegations, Sunday Mirror; "secret life of Jon Venables", Daily Mirror.[4] | |
| 2010 | The Daily Telegraph | Associated awards: The Daily Telegraph was named the "National Newspaper of the Year" for its coverage of the scandal, with William Lewis winning "Journalist of the Year" for his role.[5] | ||
| 2009 | The Mail on Sunday | Reporter: Miles Goslett[6] | ||
| 2008 | The Sun | Associated awards: "Reporter of the Year", for reporter Tom Newton Dunn[7] | ||
| 2007 | Daily Mirror | John Prescott affair with his diary secretary | Reporter: Stephen Moyes[8] | |
| 2006 | Daily Mirror | "Cocaine Kate" (Kate Moss) | Reporter: Stephen Moyes | |
| 2005 | News of the World | "Beckham's secret affair" | Story: David Beckham affair with Rebecca Loos | |
| 2004 | Daily Mirror | 'Intruder at the Palace' | Associated award: reporter Ryan Parry awarded the "Hugh Cudlipp award" for outstanding tabloid journalism[9] [10] | |
| 2003 | Daily Mirror | 'Sven and Ulrika' | Story: Sven-Göran Eriksson affair with Ulrika Jonsson[11] | |
| 2002 | The Sun | 'Baby traders' | Reporter: Briony Warden. Story: "how Alan and Judith Kilshaw adopted twins over the internet" | |
| 2001 | The Independent on Sunday | 'GM crops' | Reporter: Geoffrey Lean. Story: "ministers had secretly sanctioned trials of GM crops".[12] | |
| 2000 | News of the World | "Archer quits" | Story: withdrawal of Jeffrey Archer from the London mayoral election of 2000 over allegations of perjury in a 1987 libel trial |