THE Aberdeen daily newspaper, The Press and Journal, has emerged triumphant at awards celebrating the best of regional newspapers.
In the category for newspapers with a circulation above 40,000, the DC Thomson-owned title has been made ‘Newspaper of the year’, ahead of Belfast’s Sunday Life, which was highly-commended.
In the ‘Newspaper of the year’ category for newspapers with a circulation below 40,000, the prize went to Carlisle’s News & Star.
Meanwhile, The Herald’s Alison Campsie took the ‘Children’s Society Award for reporting on asylum and refugee issues’, with ‘All I want to do is help people’.
The winners’ list reads:
Multimedia journalist of the year
Nicola Dowling, Manchester Evening News
Reporter of the year (weekly)
Peter Truman, Croydon Guardian
Reporter of the year (daily/Sunday)
Jon Austin, Basildon Echo
Columnist of the year
Winner: Erik Petersen, Nottingham Evening Post
Highly-commended: Colin Drury, Halifax Evening Courier
Feature writer of the year (weekly)
Roger Lytollis, The Cumberland News
Feature writer of the year (daily/Sunday)
Lee Marlow, Leicester Mercury
Specialist reporter of the year
Claire McNeilly, Belfast Telegraph
Business and finance journalist of the year
Winner: Sam Williams, Norwich Evening News
Highly-commended: Robin Johnson, Derby Evening Telegraph
Sports journalist of the year (weekly)
Jon Colman, The Cumberland News
Sports journalist of the year (daily/Sunday)
Jon Colman, News & Star
Young journalist of the year
Anna Roberts, Reading Evening Post
Designer of the year
Ian Bond, Hull Daily Mail
Campaign of the year
Winner: ‘Tower Hamlets Local History Library’, East London Advertiser
Highly-commended: ‘We Care’ Express & Echo, Exeter
Photographer of the year (weekly)
Tim Bradley, Rochdale Observer and Heywood Advertiser
Photographer of the year (daily/Sunday)
Simon Hulme, Yorkshire Post
Sports photographer of the year (weekly)
Christopher Whiteoak, Aldershot News
Sports photographer of the year (Daily and Sunday)
Leah McLaren, Derby Evening Telegraph
Supplement of the year
Weekend Gloucestershire Echo / Citizen
Magazine of the year
Winner: Cornwall Today
Highly-commended: Cambridgeshire Journal
Front page of the year
The News, Portsmouth
Scoop of the year
‘Sex film Row Rocks School’, Gloucestershire Echo
Multimedia publisher of the year
Winner: Hull Daily Mail
Highly-commended: Henley Standard
Newspaper of the year (weekly) – above 20,000 circulation
Winner: South London Press
Highly-commended: Cumberland News
Newspaper of the year (weekly) – below 20,000 circulation
Winner: East London Advertiser
Highly-commended: Ham & High
Newspaper of the year (daily/Sunday) – above 40,000 circulation
Winner: Press & Journal
Highly-commended: Sunday Life
Newspaper of the year (daily/Sunday) – below 40,000 circulation
Winner: News & Star, Carlisle
Highly-commended: The Evening Star, Ipswich
Children’s Society Award for reporting on asylum and refugee issues
Winner: ‘All I want to do is help -eople’, Alison Campsie, The Herald
Highly-commended: ‘Happiness is Just Feeling Safe’, Catherine Jones, The Western Mail
