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Carl Eve’s Biography
Read Full Bio →I'm the crime reporter at Plymouth Live & Plymouth Herald - and the sole 'local' reporter in the Crime Reporters Association.
I've been a reporter since 1997 and have worked at a number of local papers, including Basildon Echo, Southend Echo, Castle Point Echo and the Thurrock Gazette. In 1999 I became the Basildon Echo's first dedicated Crime Reporter.
I spent a couple of years at the BBC as a researcher, working on live TV and then long-form documentary and radio investigations alongside some…
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Awards
See all 7 awards →Press Gazette British Journalism Award
2014 - Local Heroes Award
"Carl Eve won the Local Heroes award for his investigation into police failures to prosecute members of a child abuse ring. Judges said: 'this was a particularly difficult investigation which involved persuading police contacts and victims of crime to speak out. 'He has great contacts and uses old fashioned face to face reporting to get behind the headlines. It is the sort of in-depth local reporting which is under threat in the current climate'"
EDF Energy South West Media Awards
2014 - Specialist Reporter of the Year
Highly Commended
EDF Energy South West Media Award
2010 - Print Journalist of the Year
Winner From Hold the Front Page: "Carl Eve, who won the coveted Daily Print Journalist of the Year prize for his coverage of the Vanessa George child abuse case after having narrowly missed out on the same award 12 months ago." What the judges said: “Carl was praised for a really good body of work. He covered the Vanessa George story from arrest to sentencing, staying ahead of the national pack, but his work to expose the failures that led to the escape of a dangerous sex offender really impressed the judges.”
National Union of Journalists - Regional Press Awards
2010 - Specialist Writer of the Year
From NUJ magazine: "Carl won his award for coverage of the Vanessa George story. George, a nursery school worker, was jailed for sexually abusing children in her care and swapping images of the abuse with two other paedophiles. Carl, 43, wrote two pieces in particular which impressed the judges involving interviews with George's former friends. "Carl has been at the Herald for three and a half years, before that he was on the Basildon Echo."
EDF Energy South West Media Awards
2009 - Print Journalist of the Year
Highly Commended
Press Gazette, Regional Reporter of the Year
2003 - Regional Reporter of the Year
Finalist
Shepherd Neame - Essex Journalist of the Year
2003 - Essex Reporter of the Year
Judges praised his coverage of the Danielle Jones murder trial, which was “a classic example of thorough digging and court reporting with style”.