Media Monkey: Paul Foot award shortlist, weather, and Lucy Adams

✒The shortlist has been announced for the Paul Foot award, which was set up by Private Eye and the Guardian in 2005 in memory of the campaigning journalist. The winner of the 2013 award, announced on 25 February, will receive £5,000, with £1,000 for the other shortlistees. Tom Bergin (Reuters) is nominated for "helping to drive corporate tax practices to the top of the international political agenda". David Cohen (London Evening Standard) combined investigating London's criminal gangs with a campaign that "championed social change". Aasma Day (Lancashire Evening Post) investigated Preston's "hidden world" of the homeless, food banks, pawn shops and loan sharks. James Dean (the Times) went undercover as a complaints handler to investigate how Lloyds dealt with PPI compensation claims. Jonathan Calvert and Heidi Blake (Sunday Times) investigated how private companies and lobbyists are offered the opportunity to buy access and influence within parliament. The Snowden team (the Guardian) revealed how GCHQ gained covert access to cables and exposed its close relationship with its US equivalent, the NSA. Recent winners include Andrew Norfolk (the Times), Nick Davies (the Guardian), Clare Sambrook (freelance), Ian Cobain (the Guardian), and joint winners Camilla Cavendish (the Times) and Richard Brooks (Private Eye).

✒ Those who enjoyed BBC human resources boss Lucy "Lipgloss" Adams's appearance before the Public Accounts Committee to discuss preposterous payoffs – or indeed her less voluntary appearance in a Mail on Sunday kiss 'n' tell – may be curious to know what the future holds for Adams post-Beeb. One entry in the diary is an HR Summer School organised by legal firm Eversheds, a previous employer, with a session called Personal Leadership in a Crisis – Within The BBC. That will see her discussing "what it takes to lead change in a high-profile environment" plus "her experience of becoming part of the story"Even hardcore fans, though, may find the £825 course fee too steep, and will have to settle for the YouTube footage of her PAC performance.

✒ Monkey's awards for floods reporting:

Best single item of clothing: Kay Burley's cap, which now has its own Twitter feed.

Luckiest clothing range: Berghaus – brand-flashing is now frowned on, but BBC reporters are still wearing ones they were issued with for earlier weather crises.

Best performance of tottering walk used by everyone to demonstrate wind effect: Sky's Andrew Wilson, Blackpool.

Most understandably fed-up-looking correspondent: the BBC's volte face, switching from positioning reporters on river banks to mimicking Burley's "Lady in the Lake" technique, condemned poor Ben Brown to spending entire days up to his thighs.

Best bid for It'll Be Alright on the Night spot: Sky's Isabel Webster, suddenly lashed in the face by hail from a storm that "allegedly moved on two hours ago", just as she did a piece to camera.

Runner-up: portly BBC presenter Jon Kay staggering to and fro on Lyme Regis's beach like a hammy actor dying, confiding that he was "nearly six foot, nearly 14 stone, I'm struggling to stand" despite the shelter of the Cobb – and then right on cue cops a face full of spray.

Most deservedly punished correspondent: Blackpool reporter Judith Moritz defied Tony Hall's stern ban on head coverings for BBC hacks, and was duly cursed – she ended up incoherent and bent double, with her picture breaking up.

Most elegant effort: normally sofa-bound BBC Breakfast co-host Charlie Stayt looked as dapper as ever in soggy Surrey but plonked himself mid-water as required. However, his cameraman inexplicably tilted the camera down to reveal that Stayt was able to wear ordinary shoes, not wellies – shattering the illusion of a town under water, but happily preserving his too-cool-for-the-country image.