10/04/2008

It was a good night for The Sun newspaper at the British Press Awards, held on Tuesday evening.

The paper picked up four prizes, including Scoop of the Year and Reporter of the Year.

And not far behind was the Financial Times, which took three awards, winning the Newspaper of the Year title and prizes for two of its journalists.

The Daily Record had been shortlisted for the Cudlipp Award, which ‘recognises excellence in popular journalism’, for its reporting of murders committed by Robert Mone, 41 years ago - as the man was seeking release from incarceration.

The paper was joined among the nominations by Scot, Ally Ross, who was a contender for Critic of the Year.

Both were unsuccessful.

The full winners’ list reads:

Young Journalist of the Year
Kate Mansey, Sunday Mirror

Cartoonist of the Year
Matt Pritchett, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
 
Critic of the Year
Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph
 
Digital Journalist of the Year
Sean Smith, Guardian.co.uk
 
Interviewer of the Year
Chrissy Iley, Freelance
 
Showbiz Reporter of the Year
Sean Hamilton, Sunday Mirror
 
Photographer of the Year
Jeremy Selwyn, Evening Standard
 
Sports Photographer of the Year
Andy Hooper, Daily Mail
 
Sports Journalist of the Year
Martin Samuel, The Times
 
Supplement of the Year
You and Live, Mail on Sunday
 
Website of the Year
Guardian.co.uk
 
Scoop of the Year
Tom Newton Dunn, The Sun
 
Columnist of the Year
Matthew Norman, The Independent
 
Campaign of the Year
The Sun, ‘Help for Heroes’
 
Feature Writer of the Year
AA Gill, The Sunday Times
 
Business and Finance Journalist of the Year
Gillian Tett, Financial Times
 
The Cudlipp Award
The Sun, ‘Help for Heroes’
 
Political Journalist of the Year
Philip Stephens, Financial Times
 
Foreign Reporter of the Year
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, The Guardian

Reporter of the Year
Tom Newton Dunn, The Sun
 
Newspaper of the Year
Financial Times
 
Journalist of the Year
Andrew Gilligan
 
International Journalist of the Year
Emadeddin Baghi
 
Press Gazette Special Award
Paul Dacre

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