The Cheese Grater was named best publication in London at the 2025 Student Publication Association regional awards.
At the awards ceremony in King’s College, judges said The Cheese Grater stood out through the crowd with its “excellent investigations and dedication to their student community.”
The judges highlighted the introduction of the Digestive newsletter and commended The Cheese Grater’s “incisive” journalism and “consistently well-written” articles.
They said: “This publication’s clear impact on campus life and commitment to all things student journalism makes it a worthy choice for the best publication in London.”
The Cheese Grater was additionally named best digital outlet and highly commended for best print design.
Judges commended The Cheese Grater’s “successful integration of digital media into its everyday reporting” and highlighted editor-in-chief Robert Delaney’s work in the digitisation of archival issues with UCL Special Collections as a “particularly inspired idea”.
Cheese Grater investigations editor Malvika Murkumbi was named Best Journalist with judges commending her “hard-hitting journalism”, while co-editor Andrea Bidnic was highly commended for Best Article with his expose of the University’s continued mistreatment of postgraduate teaching assistants.
Other UCL wins include Lucy Reade who won Best Article for a striking opinion piece about assisted dying written for Pi Online, and Kinesis Magazine, which was highly commended in the Best Specialist category.
These awards follow a year which saw The Cheese Grater uncover a series of major college scandals, including a redundancy crisis at the History Department and Provost Michael Spence’s role as trustee of a homophobic Christian missionary group.
In October, The Cheese Grater was the only title to provide rolling coverage of the 2024 Rep Elections, resulting in the disqualification of one candidate found to have broken election rules.
Society president Lily Park thanked Cheese Grater readers and journalists, adding: “Over the past six months the publication has changed a lot, thanks to everybody involved.
“The Society has grown leaps and bounds, going from publishing nothing on a rolling basis to getting out over 36 articles in term 1, which is an amazing feat.”
Editor-in-chief Nick Miao added: “This award is incredible assurance that we are doing something right.”
