IT’S a battle mainly between The Scotsman/Scotland on Sunday and The Herald/Sunday Herald in this year’s Scottish Press Awards, which has just announced its shortlist.
This is the 33rd year of the awards, which are run by the Scottish Newspaper Society and which this year involve no entries from The Scottish Sun which has chosen, instead, to stage its own, in-house awards ceremony.
On the night of the awards ceremony – on the 19th of next month, in Glasgow – the Journalist of the Year and Newspaper of the Year prizes will be also announced.
Among the categories, new this year is Website/Digital Product of the Year, which replaces Multi-media Journalist of the Year.
The full shortlist reads:
SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
Lynne Cameron, Press Association
James Gunn, Freelance
Robert Perry, Scotland on Sunday
Sammy Turner, SNS Group
Craig Williamson, SNS Group
NEWS PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
Brian Anderson, Mirror Group
Jane Barlow, The Scotsman/Scotland on Sunday
Wattie Cheung, Freelance
James Glossop, The Times
Robert Perry, Scotland on Sunday
Ian Rutherford, The Scotsman/Scotland on Sunday
Gordon Terris, The Herald
CARTOONIST OF THE YEAR
Brian Adcock, The Scotsman/Scotland on Sunday
Frank Boyle, Edinburgh Evening News
Steven Camley, The Herald
Scott Clissold, Scottish Sunday Express
Pete Davidson, The Sunday Post
YOUNG JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
Kieran Andrews, Evening Telegraph
Larisa Brown, Scottish Daily Mail
Andrew Burns, Dumfries and Galloway Standard
Matthew Holehouse, The Herald/Sunday Herald
Rory Reynolds, Edinburgh Evening News
WEBSITE/DIGITAL PRODUCT OF THE YEAR
Stephen Emerson, The Scotsman
Charles Fletcher, Caledonia Media
Ewan Watt, Daily Record
WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR
The Falkirk Herald
Highland News
The Inverness Courier
The Northern Scot
The Southern Reporter
ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
Brian Beacom, The Herald
Ali Howard, The Herald
Beverley Lyons, Daily Record
Brian McIver, Daily Record
Phil Miller, The Herald
Aidan Smith, Scotland on Sunday
MAGAZINE WRITER OF THE YEAR
Brian Beacom, The Herald
Claire Black, The Scotsman
Katie Mackintosh, Holyrood Magazine
Elizabeth McMeekin, Herald & Times Group
Chitra Ramaswamy, The Scotsman/Scotland on Sunday
Peter Ross, Scotland on Sunday
POLITICAL JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
Mark Aitken, Sunday Mail
Eddie Barnes, The Scotsman/Scotland on Sunday
Tom Gordon, Sunday Herald
Simon Johnson, Daily Telegraph
Alan Roden, Scottish Daily Mail
COLUMNIST OF THE YEAR
Ian Bell, Sunday Herald
Tam Cowan, Daily Record
Kenny Farquharson, Scotland on Sunday
John MacLeod, Scottish Daily Mail
John McTernan, The Scotsman
FINANCIAL/BUSINESS JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
Simon Bain, The Herald
Colin Dunlop Donald, Sunday Herald
Martin Flanagan, The Scotsman
Ian McConnell, The Herald
Tim Sharp, The Herald
Mark Williamson, The Herald
NEWSPAPER FEATURE WRITER OF THE YEAR
Jonathan Brocklebank, Scottish Daily Mail
Anna Burnside, Scotland on Sunday
Catherine Deveney, Sunday Herald/Scotland on Sunday
Iain MacWhirter, The Sunday Herald
David Pratt, The Herald/Sunday Herald
SPORTS FEATURE WRITER OF THE YEAR
Tom English, The Scotsman/Scotland on Sunday
John Greechan, Scottish Daily Mail
Keith Jackson, Daily Record
Aidan Smith, The Scotsman/Scotland on Sunday
Susan Swarbrick, The Herald
SPORTS NEWS WRITER OF THE YEAR
Graeme Croser, Scottish Mail on Sunday
Tom English, The Scotsman/Scotland on Sunday
David Ferguson, The Scotsman
Keith Jackson, Daily Record
John McGarry, Scottish Daily Mail
FRONT PAGE OF THE YEAR
Edinburgh Evening News, What a Joke
Scotland on Sunday, Battle for Benghazi
The Scotsman, Revenge
Sunday Herald, Censored
The Sunday Post, Rediscover a warm, entertaining newspaper
JOURNALIST TEAM OF THE YEAR
Daily Record, Black Widower, Malcolm Webster
Edinburgh Evening News, Edinburgh Trams Project
Evening Telegraph, Mary McLaren Verdict
Greenock Telegraph, Tall Ships Race 2011
Scottish Daily Mail, Malcolm Webster
CAMPAIGN OF THE YEAR
Edinburgh Evening News, Say No to Coe
Evening Times, Opt for Life
Evening Times, Streets Ahead
Hamilton Advertiser, Hammer the Knife Thugs
The Big Issue Scotland, Save Kids from Cuts
SCOOP OF THE YEAR
Craig McDonald, Daily Record, Busted – Chris & Mary Gorman
John McGarry, News of the World, Neil Lennon – I’m Here to Stay
Alan Roden, Scottish Daily Mail, Limos – John Reid and Luxury Limos
Michael Tait, Scottish Mail on Sunday, £161m Lottery Pair to Fund UK Break-Up
Richard Walker, Sunday Herald, Censored – The Madness of Privacy Laws
REPORTER OF THE YEAR
Patricia Kane, Scottish Mail on Sunday
Gavin Madeley, Scottish Daily Mail
Craig McDonald, Daily Record
Mark McGivern, Daily Record
David Pratt, The Herald/Sunday Herald
