A previously discontinued award for campaigning and investigative journalism has been revived.

Private Eye has announced the return of the Paul Foot Award, which was last presented in 2015.

It was first set up in 2005 in memory of investigative journalist Paul Foot, pictured left, to run for an initial period of 10 years.

The accolade was won by Deborah Wain, then a journalist with the Doncaster Free Press, in 2007.

Announcing its revival, Private Eye editor Ian Hislop said: “At a time when the public is being offered the post-truth, the alternative truth and nothing like the truth, we thought it was time to revive a celebration of what defined Foot’s work and what is his continuing legacy – the great spirit of informed, eloquent, obstinate enquiry.”

The winning entry will be awarded £5,000 at an evening awards ceremony on 20 June 2017 at BAFTA, London.

Submissions will be accepted for material that has been published in a newspaper or magazine in the UK, or on a website, between 1 April 2016 and 31 March 2017.

Individual journalists, teams of journalists or entire publications may enter and entries will be considered for anything from a single piece to entire campaigns.

Journalists are welcome to enter more than one campaign, but each campaign needs to be submitted using a separate entry form.

More information can be found here.