Media Awards: Regional Press Awards, shortlist

SEVERAL Scots entries have made it to the shortlist of an UK-wide competition celebrating the best of the regional press.

The Regional Press Awards – run by the Society of Editors – will be naming its winners at an awards ceremony on the 15th of next month.

For more information, click here.

The shortlist reads:

Young Journalist of the Year

Isaac Crowson – Derby Telegraph
Gareth Davies – The Argus
Laura Hill – Harrogate Advertiser
Brendan Hughes – The Irish News
Ciaran Jones – Media Wales
Elaine O’Flynn – The Bolton News

Business and Finance Journalist of the Year

Jon Austin – The Echo, Basildon
Simon Bain – The Herald, Glasgow
Bernard Ginns – The Yorkshire Post
Jon Griffin – Birmingham Mail
Robin Johnson – Derby Telegraph
Simon Penfold – Express & Star, Wolverhampton

Specialist Writer of the Year

Jon Austin – The Echo, Basildon
Ciaran Barnes – Sunday Life
Janet Boyle – Sunday Post
Aasma Day – Lancashire Evening Post
Martin George – Eastern Daily Press
Jeanette Oldham – Birmingham Mail

Feature Writer of the Year

Catherine Barnes – Western Morning News
Gemma Collins – Leicester Mercury
Rowan Mantell – Eastern Daily Press
Lee Marlow – Leicester Mercury
Kate Proctor – The Journal, Newcastle
Chae Strathie –Sunday Post

Columnist of the Year

Emma Clayton – Bradford Telegraph & Argus
Carolyn Hitt – Media Wales
Fred Leicester – Leicester Mercury
Allison Morris – The Irish News
Catriona Stewart – The Herald, Glasgow
Daniel Wainwright – Express & Star, Wolverhampton

Weekly Sports Journalist of the Year

Jon Colman – The Cumberland News
Danny Hall – The Star, Sheffield
Chris Harby – Melton Times
Andrew Jones – North Devon Journal
Eric Mackinnon – The Stornoway Gazette
George Thorpe – Packet Newspapers

Daily/Sunday Sports Journalist of the Year

Paul Abbandonato – Media Wales
Phil Buckingham – Hull Daily Mail
Jon Colman – News & Star, Carlisle
Suzanne Geldard – Lancashire Telegraph
Mark Guidi – Sunday Post
Chris Wathan – Media Wales

Weekly Reporter of the Year

Louisa Clarence-Smith – Wimbledon Guardian
Phil Coleman – The Cumberland News
Gareth Davies – Croydon Advertiser
John Elworthy – Cambs Times
Antony Gedge – Cambrian News
Emma Hobley – Braintree and Witham Times

Daily/Sunday Reporter of the Year

Jon Austin – The Echo, Basildon
Gordon Blackstock – The Sunday Post
Allison Coggan – Hull Daily Mail
Patricia Devlin – Sunday Life
Patrick Knox – Southern Daily Echo
Mike Lockley – Birmingham Mail

Weekly Photographer of the Year

Richard Cave – Oxford Mail
Michael Gillen – The Falkirk Herald
Ian Longthorne – Baylis Media Ltd
Arwyn Parry-Jones- Cambrian News
Anita Ross-Marshall – Bucks Free Press
Christopher Whiteoak – Aldershot News & Mail

Daily/Sunday Photographer of the Year

Denise Bradley – Eastern Daily Press
David Fleming – Oxford Mail
Cliff Hide – Oxford Mail
Paul Jacobs – The News, Portsmouth
Jon Lewis – Oxford Mail
Mike Sewell – Leicester Mercury

Designer of the Year

Kathryn Clarke-Mcleod – Western Morning News
Sian David – Bath Chronicle
Annette Hudson – Eastern Daily Press
Gus Proctor – Dundee Courier and Advertiser
Le-Anne Reeves – Eastern Daily Press
Adam Walker – Media Wales

Supplement of the Year

Celebrating 100 years – Sunday Post
Cumbria@40 – The Cumberland News
First World War – (Dundee) Courier and Advertiser
Great War 100 – Liverpool Echo
More – Leicester Mercury
The Yorkshire Post Magazine

Front Page of the Year

‘Beyond Belief’ – (Dundee) Evening Telegraph
‘End of a dream’ – Edinburgh Evening News
‘Goodbye Big Man’ – Belfast Telegraph
‘Man is killed by train, then this happened’ – Brentwood Gazette
‘Phew, it’s over. A big thanks to…’ – Western Mail
‘We Will Remember Them’ – Dorset Echo

Scoop of the Year

‘Beyond Belief’, Darren Hamilton – (Dundee) Evening Telegraph
‘Echo nabs £1million fraudster’, Jon Austin – The Echo, Basildon
‘H’Boro Insults Posted from Government Computers’, Oliver Duggan – Liverpool Echo
‘I’m glad dog ate my face’, Aasma Day, Lancashire Evening Post
‘Michaella: My Story’, Patricia Devlin – Sunday Life
‘This will really get up your nose’, Marc Meneaud – Sunday Post

Campaign of the Year

75 Year Cover-Up – Birmingham Mail
Greengate Memorial – Manchester Evening News
Harold Morgan Appeal – Media Wales
Keep Our Streets Free – News & Star, Carlisle
Loneliness: The Hidden Epidemic – The Yorkshire Post
Manchester Dogs Home – Manchester Evening News

Website of the Year

Belfasttelegraph.co.uk
Birmingham Mail
edp24.co.uk
Kent Online
Liverpool Echo
P&J Online

The Digital Award

Belfasttelegraph.co.uk
Birmingham Mail
Great North Run Million – Newcastle Evening Chronicle
Newsroom 3.1 – Trinity Mirror
Trinity Mirror Data Unit
Wales Online

Weekly Newspaper (below 20,000)

Bath Chronicle
Brentwood Gazette
Cambrian News
Keighley News
Kent Messenger
Macclesfield Express

Weekly Newspaper (above 20,000)

Camden New Journal
Croydon Advertiser
Essex Chronicle
North Devon Journal
The Cumberland News
The Westmorland Gazette

Daily/Sunday Newspaper (below 25,000)

Cambridge News
Dorset Echo
News & Star, Carlisle
Sunday Echo
The Journal, Newcastle
Western Mail

Daily/Sunday Newspaper (above 25,000)

(Aberdeen) Press and Journal
Birmingham Mail
Eastern Daily Press
Liverpool Echo
Sunday Life
The Irish News