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13.11.2021 • 
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Task 6. Read the article again. Are the statements true (T) or false (F)? (5 points)1 Paul Foot worked as a lawyer for some time after leaving university.2 His first full-time job was in Oxford.3Private Eye is published every week.4 The 2007 Paul Foot Award winner didn’t work full-time.5 The author of the article thinks that today’s newspapers print a lot of important stories.The Paul Foot AwardPaul Foot was a famous British journalist. He was born in 1937 to a famous family. Both his grandfather and uncle were politicians. He went to a public school which he hated, and studied at Oxford where he wrote articles for a student newspaper.At the time he was studying law and, although he never worked as a lawyer, he was always interested in the subject. In later years, he used his knowledge of the law to help people who were sent to prison unfairly. In 1961, after finishing his studies, he went to work as a journalist in Glasgow, Scotland. This was his first full-time job and, while there, he met workers from local factories and talked to them about their lives and jobs. From then on, he fought for workers’ rights against big businesses and the government.In 1967, Paul Foot started working full-time for the twice-monthly publication, Private Eye. This is a well-known newspaper in Britain which publishes stories other newspapers are too scared to print. Paul Foot was paid much less for this work than for his work with normal, daily papers, but he didn’t mind because he was given much more freedom to write what he wanted. He enjoyed the people he worked with and found out that he and the owner had both been to similar schools and had similar, unhappy, childhoods. He left Private Eye twice to work on different publications but, both times, he returned again to the paper he always loved best.Paul Foot won several awards. He was journalist of the year in 1972 and 1989 and he worked hard on stories which no-one else was interested in. He died in 2004, but his memory lives on. In 2005, Private Eye and another newspaper, The Guardian, started up the Paul Foot Award for journalism. Six British journalists whose work over the year has been important are chosen for the final. Five of them receive a prize of ₤1,000 and the overall winner gets ₤5,000.The winners aren’t always well-known or working for national newspapers. Although the first two winners were from The Daily Mail and The Sunday Telegraph, the third, in 2007, was a journalist on the Doncaster Free Press newspaper, a small weekly newspaper from a town in the north of England. That was for her articles on a local education organisation which cost millions of pounds but didn’t provide a good service for local students. Her work was typical of what Paul Foot thought of as a ‘real’ journalist. She shared a small office and was only on a part-time contract, but by meeting people and asking the right questions, she slowly managed to put a story together that shocked everyone who read it.These days, when newspapers are full of celebrity gossip, fashion tips and ‘news’ about the latest reality or talent show, the Paul Foot Award helps us to remember what journalism should be about. Stories that matter, stories that can change the world.

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