Rutherford and Hamburgh named winners at Regional Press Awards

THE Scotsman Publications’ photographer, Ian Rutherford, has been named a winner at a media awards ceremony celebrating the best of the regional Press.

Ian Rutherford has taken the Daily/Sunday Photographer of the Year at the Regional Press Awards, run by the Society of Editors.

And he was joined among the winners by David Hamburgh, at the Edinburgh Evening News (part of The Scotsman Publications Ltd stable) and named Designer of the Year.

Meanwhile, The Herald’s Simon Bain was highly commended in the Business and Finance Journalist of the Year category. And Gina Davidson – also at the Edinburgh Evening News and last month chosen as Journalist of the Year at the Scottish Press Awards – was highly commended in Scoop of the Year.

Also highly commended was Dundee’s Evening Telegraph newspaper, in the Daily/Sunday Newspaper (Below 25,000) section.

The winners and highly commended list reads as follows:

Young Journalist of the Year

Winner: Richard Wheatstone, Manchester Evening News

Highly Commended: Bill Gardner, The Argus

Business and Finance Journalist of the Year

Winner: Robin Johnson, Derby Telegraph

Highly Commended: Simon Bain, The Herald, Glasgow

Specialist Writer of the Year

Winner: Ciaran Barnes, Sunday Life

Highly Commended: Jon Austin, The Echo, Basildon

Feature Writer of the Year

Winner: Paddy Shennan, Liverpool Echo

Highly Commended: Emma Higginbotham, Cambridge News

Columnist of the Year

Winner: Les Reid, Coventry Telegraph

Highly Commended: Carolyn Hitt, Western Mail

Weekly Sports Journalist of the Year

Winner: David Powell, North Devon Journal

Highly Commended: Amanda Little, The Cumberland News

Daily/Sunday Sports Journalist of the Year

Winner: Simon Walter, Southern Daily Echo

Highly Commended: Stevie Roden, Nottingham Post

Weekly Reporter of the Year

Winner: Mark Williams, Lincolnshire Echo

Highly Commended: David Churchill, Croydon Advertiser

Daily/Sunday Reporter of the Year

Winner: Rob Waugh, Yorkshire Post

Highly Commended: Kevin Shoesmith, Hull Daily Mail

Weekly Photographer of the Year

Winner: Stephen Garnett, Craven Herald

Highly Commended: Anna Draper, Lincolnshire Echo

Daily/Sunday Photographer of the Year

Winner: Ian Rutherford, The Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday

Highly Commended: Kate Lowe, Derby Telegraph

Designer of the Year

Winner: David Hamburgh, Edinburgh Evening News

Highly Commended: Marc White, Media Wales

Supplement of the Year

Winner: More Magazine, Leicester Mercury

Highly Commended: Weekend, Bristol Evening Post

Front Page of the Year

Winner: Merv’s Boots – Western Mail

Highly Commended: Etched On Her Flesh – Derby Telegraph

We Are With You – Manchester Evening News

Scoop of the Year

Winner: Melanie Adams, Southern Daily Echo

Highly Commended: Gina Davidson, Edinburgh Evening News

Campaign of the Year

Winner: Hillsborough, Liverpool Echo

Highly Commended: Cassie’s Law, Colchester Daily Gazette

Website of the Year

Winner: Liverpool Post and Echo Digital team

Highly Commended: Wales Online, Media Wales

The Digital Award

Winner: The Wales Online Datastore, Media Wales

Highly Commended: The PinkUn, Norwich Evening News

Weekly Newspaper (Below 20,000)

Winner: Brentwood Gazette

Highly Commended: The Cornishman

Weekly Newspaper (Above 20,000)

Winner: The Cumberland News

Highly Commended: Camden New Journal

Westmorland Gazette

Daily/Sunday Newspaper (Below 25,000)

Winner: Wales on Sunday

Highly Commended: Dundee Evening Telegraph

Daily/Sunday Newspaper (Above 25,000)

Winner: Liverpool Echo

Highly Commended: Express and Star Wolverhampton

Sunday Life