THE Scots editor of The Sun’s showbiz column, Bizarre, has been named a winner at the British Press Awards.
Gordon Smart took the Showbiz Reporter of the Year title during a ceremony last night that saw The Times named Newspaper of the Year, not least because of its reporting of tax avoidance by well-known celebrities.
Say the organisers: “Alexi Mostrous and Fay Schlesinger’s delve into complex schemes used by celebrities to shield their earnings from the taxman was described by the judges as ‘a cracking expose that had massive ramifications. Not only did it shock and anger the public it set the public agenda’.”
While the investigation won Mostrous the News Reporter of the Year award, it also earned the paper the Scoop of the Year and News Team of the Year honours.
Meanwhile, The Sunday Times actually picked up the most titles during the evening, winning five prizes, including for chief sports reporter, David Walsh, who had conducted an investigation lasting 14 years into now shamed road cyclist, Lance Armstrong.
The judges described last year for Walsh as “the culmination of a great sports story. Not only did he stick to his guns, he left everyone else in his wake”.
The Sunday Post was nominated for the The Cudlipp Award, in honour of campaigns and investigations in any UK national newspaper.
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The winners’ list reads:
Young Journalist of the Year
Winner Andrew Dagnell, Sunday Mirror
Highly Commended Joshi Herrmann, London Evening Standard
Business and Finance Journalist of the Year
Winner Tom Bergin, Thomson Reuters
Highly Commended Graeme Wearden, The Guardian
Political Journalist of the Year
Winner Simon Walters, The Mail on Sunday
Highly Commended Andrew Pierce, Daily Mail
Foreign Reporter of the Year
Winner Marie Colvin, The Sunday Times
Highly Commended Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, The Guardian
David Blair, The Daily Telegraph
Showbiz Reporter of the Year
Winner Gordon Smart, The Sun
Highly Commended Mark Jefferies, Daily Mirror
Sports Journalist of the Year
Winner David Walsh, The Sunday Times
Highly Commended Richard Williams, The Guardian
Specialist Journalist of the Year
Winner Sean Rayment, The Sunday Telegraph
Highly Commended Robert Verkaik, The Mail on Sunday
Feature Writer of the Year
Winner David James Smith, The Sunday Times
Highly Commended Elizabeth Day, The Observer
Feature Writer of the Year
Winner Andrew Malone, Daily Mail
Highly Commended David Rose, The Mail on Sunday
Interviewer of the Year
Winner Lynn Barber, The Sunday Times
Highly Commended Decca Aitkenhead, The Guardian
Interviewer of the Year
Winner Nick Curtis, London Evening Standard
Highly Commended Jenny Johnston, Daily Mail
Columnist of the Year
Winner Peter Oborne, The Daily Telegraph
Highly Commended David Aaronovitch, The Times
Columnist of the Year
Winner Jane Moore, The Sun
Highly Commended Richard Littlejohn, Daily Mail
Critic of the Year
Winner Craig Brown, The Mail on Sunday
Highly Commended AA Gill, The Sunday Times
Photographer of the Year
Winner Phil Noble, Reuters
Highly Commended Tom Pilston, The Times
Sports Photographer of the Year
Winner Andy Hooper, Daily Mail
Highly Commended Mark Pain, The Mail on Sunday
Cartoonist of the Year
Winner Dave Brown, The Independent
Highly Commended Matt Pritchett, The Daily Telegraph
Supplement of the Year
Winner Observer Food Monthly, The Observer
The Digital Award
Winner Mail Online
Highly Commended Guardian Interactive
The Best of Humour Award
Winner Craig Brown, Daily Mail
Highly Commended Giles Coren, The Times
Scoop of the Year
Winner ‘The Tax Avoiders’ – Alexi Mostrous and Fay Schlesinger, The Times
Highly Commended ‘Foster couple lose children for being members of UKIP’ – Sam Marsden, The Daily Telegraph
Front Page of the Year
Winner ‘History Man’, The Sunday Telegraph
Highly Commended ‘Look at all those people’, Daily Mirror
News Reporter of the Year
Winner Alexi Mostrous, The Times
Highly Commended Heidi Blake and Jonathan Calvert, The Sunday Times
David Walsh, The Sunday Times
The Cudlipp Award
Winner Daily Mirror, ‘Hillsborough’
Highly Commended Daily Mail, ‘Gary McKinnon campaign’
Sunday Post, ‘Puzzle firm expose’
Journalists’ Charity Award
Winner Bob Satchwell, Executive Director, Society of Editors
News Team of the Year
Winner The Times
Sports Team of the Year
Winner The Sunday Times
Highly commended The Times
Production and Design Team of the Year
Winner London Evening Standard
Highly commended The Times
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Newspaper of the Year
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