07/03/2008

As sent as breaking news to e-newsletter subscribers last night, Scotland on Sunday newspaper has received the most nominations for this year’s Scottish Press Awards - the shortlist for which have just been released.

The awards - taking place next month, in Glasgow - also sees The Scotsman and The Herald both feature strongly, each on 12 nominations. But SoS pips them with 13.

This is the 29th year of the awards, which are organised by the Scottish Daily Newspaper Society. The winners across 22 categories will be announced on the 17th of next month. The host is TV presenter, Fiona Armstrong.

Controversy accompanied the invite for this year’s entries when it was realised that some journalists would be prevented from entering categories such as Feature Writer, and also Arts and Entertainment Writer, for no other reason than they work for their newspaper’s magazine.

Magazine Writer of the Year is a new category, as is Sports Scoop.
 
Says George Reid, chair of the judging panel: “Scotland is one of the most competitive media markets in the world. That gives real importance to the Scottish Press Awards. This year’s entrants again demonstrate the incisive reporting, originality of thought and quality of writing which edge them ahead of the field.”
 
There were over 350 entries this year, with Journalist Team of Year, News Photographer of the Year and Cartoonist of the Year attracting a record number of entries.

The breakdown of nominations reads: Sunday Herald 8, Scotsman 12, Daily Record 8, Scotland on Sunday 13, Scottish Sun 9, The Herald 12, Scottish Mail on Sunday 1, Sunday Mail 6, Business7 1, Sunday Times Scotland 6, Scottish Daily Mail 6, Holyrood magazine 2, Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser 2, Evening Express 2, Evening Times 1, Courier 1, Ayrshire Post 2, Dumfries & Galloway Standard 1, Falkirk Herald 1, West Highland Free Press 1, Edinburgh Evening News 1, Press & Journal 1, Freelance 2, An Gaidheal Ur 1 and Scottish News of the World 1. Express Newspapers decline to enter.

Click here for last year’s winners.

The shortlist reads:

Scoop of the Year
 
Paul Hutcheon Sunday Herald – Labour Leader Tight-lipped on Tax Exile’s Donation
Peter MacMahon The Scotsman – How a Council Boss Cleaned up
Jack Mathieson Daily Record – Breakthrough as Vicky DNA Found in Tobin House
Marcello Mega Scotland on Sunday – Not Guilty
Nicholas Sharpe Scottish Sun – A Free Mone
 
Reporter of the Year
 
Lucy Adams, The Herald
Allan Caldwell, Mail on Sunday
Michael Howie, The Scotsman
Charles Lavery, Sunday Mail
Neil MacKay, Sunday Herald
 
Financial / Business Journalist of the Year
 
Simon Bain, The Herald
Greig Cameron, Business7
William Lyons, Scotland on Sunday
Ian McConnell, The Herald
John Penman, The Sunday Times Scotland
 
Newspaper Feature Writer of the Year
 
Jonathan Brocklebank, Scottish Daily Mail
Allan Brown, The Sunday Times Scotland
John Bynorth, Sunday Herald
Maureen Culley, Scottish Daily Mail
Catherine Deveney, Scotland on Sunday
Neil MacKay, Sunday Herald
 
Magazine Writer of the Year
 
Torcuil Crichton, Sunday Herald Magazine
Catherine Deveney, Scotland on Sunday
Barry Didcock, Sunday Herald
Susan Swarbrick, The Herald Magazine
Michael Tierney, The Herald Magazine
 
Columnist of the Year
 
Ian Bell, Sunday Herald
Tom English, Scotland on Sunday
John Macleod, Scottish Daily Mail
Mandy Rhodes, Holyrood Magazine
Hardeep Singh Kohli, Scotland on Sunday
 
Campaign of the Year
 
Airdrie & Coatbridge Advertiser, Election Campaign Explodes
Daily Record, Living on a Knife Edge
Evening Express, Brain Unit Saved
Evening Times, War of Litter
The Courier, Bridge Tolls
 
Front Page of the Year
 
Daily Record, Fadiator
Evening Express, You Traitors
Sunday Mail, The Bombers
The Scotsman, 1707 For Better or Worse
The Scottish Sun, They'll Have My Balls for This
 
Journalist Team of the Year
 
Daily Record, Doctor Deaths Lethal Payload
Scottish Daily Mail, Bombs: Two Doctors Held
Scottish Daily Mail, Freed to Murder
Scottish Sun, Doctor Deaths/Lair of Terror
Sunday Mail, The Bombers
 
Weekly Newspaper of the Year
 
Airdrie & Coatbridge Advertiser
Ayrshire Post
Dumfries & Galloway Standard
The Falkirk Herald
West Highland Free Press
 
Political Journalist of the Year
 
Paul Hutcheon, Sunday Herald
Hamish MacDonnell, The Scotsman
Peter MacMahon, The Scotsman
Gerri Peev, The Scotsman
Mandy Rhodes, Holyrood Magazine
 
Sports Feature Writer of the Year
 
Douglas James Alexander, The Sunday Times Scotland
Richard Bath, Scotland on Sunday
Tom English, Scotland on Sunday
Hugh MacDonald, The Herald
Richard Wilson, The Sunday Times Scotland
 
Sports News Writer of the Year
 
Roger Hannah, The Scottish Sun
Iain King, The Scottish Sun                                             
Brian Majoribanks, Scottish Daily Mail
Scott McDermot, Sunday Mail
Derek McGregor, The Scottish Sun
 
Sports Scoop of the Year
 
Neil Cameron, Daily Record – Back on the Bevvy
Keith Jackson, Daily Record – You’re Rumbled
Gary Ralston, Daily Record – Hibs Revolt
Darren Tulett, Scotland on Sunday – The Real Story Behind Le Guen’s Exit from Ibrox
 
Arts / Entertainment Journalist of the Year
 
Matthew William Bendoris, Scottish Sun
Anna Burnside, The Sunday Times Scotland
Brian McIver, Daily Record
Phil Miller, The Herald
Aidan Gordon Smith, Scotland on Sunday
 
Cartoonist of the Year
 
Brian Adcock, Scotland on Sunday
Frank Boyle, Edinburgh Evening News
Steven Camley, The Herald
Bill McArthur, The Herald
Nick Newman, The Sunday Times Scotland
 
Young Journalist of the Year
 
Lisa Boyle, Ayrshire Post
Ryan James Crighton, The Press and Journal
Steve Dineen, Sunday Mail
Rachelle Money, Freelance
Richard Winton, The Herald
Alice Wyllie, The Scotsman
 
Gaelic Journalist of the Year
 
Angus Peter Campbell, An Gaidheal Ur
Alasdair H Campbell, The Scotsman
Ishabel T MacDonald, The Scotsman
Murchadh  Macleoid, Scotland on Sunday
Neil McRae, The Scotsman
 
News Photographer of the Year
 
Brian Anderson, News of the World
Peter Kelly, Scottish Sun
Alasdair Macleod, Sunday Mail
Andrew Milligan, The Herald
Ian Rutherfod, The Scotsman
 
Sports Photographer of the Year
 
Thomas Main, Freelancer
Colin Mearns, The Herald
Kenneth M Ramsay, Scottish Sun
Ian Rutherford, The Scotsman
Phil Wilkinson, Scotland on Sunday

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