THE Scots freelance journalist, Catherine Deveney, has been shortlisted in awards celebrating the best of British journalism.
The awards – run by the Press Gazette website and digital magazine – also sees Scots journalist, Laura Kuenssberg, nominated for Business Finance and Economics Journalist of the Year.
Deveney is named in the Breaking News category, for her work in The Observer newspaper, which sparked a train of events that was to lead to the resignation of Cardinal Keith O’Brien, and a statement by him of ‘sexual conduct… below the standards expected…’.
Also, BBC Scotland’s Sins of our Fathers was given a nod in the Investigation of the Year category.
The shortlist reads:
Business Finance and Economics Journalist of the Year
Tom Bergin, Reuters
Stephen Grey, Reuters
Sarah O’Connor, Financial Times
Laura Kuenssberg, ITV News
John Gapper, Financial Times
David Enrich, The Wall Street Journal Europe
Breaking News Award
Channel 4 News: Plebgate – Plebs, lies and videotape
Exaro, the Murdoch recording
The Independent (Tom Harper), blue-chip hacking revelations
The Observer (Catherine Deveney), UK’s top cardinal accused of ‘inappropriate acts’ by priests
The Sunday Times (Insight), Generals for hire
The Times (Anthony Loyd), Revealed: tragic victims of Syria’s nerve gas war
Campaign of the Year
Child sexual exploitation, The Times
Fight for April, The Sun
Ladder for London, London Evening Standard
Safe Weekend Care, The Sunday Times
Wedding for terminally ill cancer sufferer, Scunthorpe Telegraph
Westminster for Sale, The Sunday Times
Foreign Affairs Journalist of the Year
Anthony Loyd, The Times
Hala Jaber, The Sunday Times
Katrina Manson, The Financial Times
Kim Sengupta, The Independent
Patrick Coburn, The Independent
Richard Lloyd Parry, The Times
Investigation of the Year
The Snowden Files, The Guardian
Sins of our Fathers, BBC Scotland
Plebgate – Plebs, Lies and Videotape, Channel 4 Dispatches
Grooming scandal, Andrew Norfolk, The Times
David Hunt (The Untouchable), Michael Gillard, The Sunday Times
Cancer surgeon with high death rates, Jeanette Oldham, Birmingham Mail
New Journalist of the Year (for journalists who have been in the industry for three years or less)
Alex Ralph, The Times
Fiona O’Cleirigh, Exaro News
Maeve McClenaghan, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
Patrick Kingsley, The Guardian
Sarah Morrison, The Independent
Simon Murphy, The Mail on Sunday
Photojournalist of the Year
Jeremy Selwyn, London Evening Standard
Mark Scott, The Sentinel
Oli Scarff, Getty Images
Richard Pohle, The Times
Suzanne Plunkett, Thomson Reuters
Politics Journalist of the Year
Amelia Gentleman, The Guardian
Janan Ganesh, Financial Times
Joe Murphy, London Evening Standard
Neil Elkes, Birmingham Post and Mail
Steve Richards, freelance for The Guardian and The Independent
Jonathan Calvert and Heidi Blake, The Sunday Times Insight team
Journalism Innovation of the Year
360 degree interactive camera, Lewis Whyld
GuardianWitness, The Guardian
Ooh-Ar augmented reality platform (as used in The Sentinel and Bristol Post)
Sun+
The Brixton Bugle and Brixton Blog
Voices in Danger, The Independent
Sports Journalist of the Year
Christian Sylt, freelance for City AM and The Independent
David Conn, The Guardian
Ian Herbert, The Independent
Luke Edwards, Telegraph Media Group
Mark Ogden, Telegraph Media Group
Sam Wallace, The Independent
Science and Technology Journalist of the Year
Robin McKie, The Observer
Pallab Ghosh, BBC
Leslie Hook, Financial Times
Helen Thomson, New Scientist
Gareth Iacobucci, British Medical Journal
Andrew Gregory, Daily Mirror
