Oliver Shah receives Outstanding Contribution Award

IBP has recognised the outstanding contribution of one of our industry’s most successful and respected journalists, Oliver Shah, Associate Editor and Leader Writer at The Sunday Times.

For 15 years he has been one of the leading journalists in the property world, through his writing for the Sunday Times and latterly, his must-read weekly column in React News.

He was named business journalist of the year at the 2017 Press Awards for his investigation into Sir Philip Green’s £1 sale of BHS. The judges described it as ‘the standout business story of the year’ and said that his ‘bravery [and] doggedness… brought the whole BHS affair to the public consciousness’.

He was also named business journalist of the year at the 2017 London Press Club Awards. Oliver has been interviewed on Radio Four’s Today Programme, BBC News, BBC Five Live and Sky News.

He attended Reading grammar school and studied English literature at Cambridge University between 2002 and 2005. He worked for various trade magazines before completing a postgraduate qualification in newspaper journalism at City University in 2008. He then joined the London business daily City AM in 2009 and The Sunday Times in 2010.

His first book, Damaged Goods: The Inside Story of Sir Philip Green, the Collapse of BHS and the Death of the High Street was published in 2018 and was a Sunday Times bestseller.

Oliver received his award at the IBP National Journalism Awards ceremony on 17 November 2022.