THE Daily Record has been named a winner at an awards ceremony celebrating the best of the UK-wide press.
The paper took the Sports Team prize at the Press Awards for 2014, which saw The Times named Newspaper of the Year.
The Record was also highly commended, in the Front Page category, for its The Vow.
As noted, here, the paper had earned four nominations.
Among the winners was former Scotsman editor, Rebecca Hardy – for Interview of the Year (popular newspapers).
And Scot, Fraser Nelson, was highly commended in the Columnist of the Year (broadsheet) category.
The full list reads, as follows:
Young Journalist of the Year
Winner: Peter Campbell – Daily Mail
Business and Finance Journalist of the Year
Winner: Simon Goodley – The Guardian
Highly commended: Ambrose Evans-Pritchard – The Daily Telegraph
Political Journalist of the Year
Winner: Matthew Parris – The Times
Highly commended: Janan Ganesh – Financial Times
Foreign Reporter of the Year
Winner: Patrick Cockburn – The Independent and i
Highly commended: Anthony Loyd – The Times
Science and Health Journalist of the Year
Winner: Andrew Gregory – Daily Mirror
Highly commended: Steve Connor – The Independent and i
ShowBiz Reporter of the Year
Winner: Halina Watts – Daily Mirror
Highly commended: Simon Cable – Freelance (Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, The Mail on Sunday) and
Richard Brooks – The Sunday Times
Sports Journalist of the Year
Winner: Matthew Lawton – Daily Mail
Highly commended: Ian Herbert – The Independent and i
Specialist Journalist of the Year
Winner: Pilita Clark – Financial Times
Highly commended: Dan Hyde – The Daily Telegraph
Interviewer of the Year (popular)
Winner: Rebecca Hardy – Daily Mail
Highly commended: Frances Hardy – Daily Mail
Interviewer of the Year (broadsheet)
Winner: Bryan Appleyard – The Sunday Times
Highly commended: Simon Hattenstone – The Guardian
Feature Writer of the Year (popular)
Winner: Tom Parry – Daily Mirror
Highly commended: Joshi Hermann – London Evening Standard
Feature Writer of the Year (broadsheet)
Winner: Anthony Loyd – The Times
Highly commended: Patrick Strudwick – The Independent and i
Columnist of the Year (popular)
Winner: Quentin Letts – Daily Mail
Highly commended: Brian Reade – Daily Mirror
Columnist of the Year (broadsheet)
Winner: Mark Steel – The Independent and i
Highly commended: Fraser Nelson – The Daily Telegraph and
Howard Jacobson – The Independent
Critic of the Year
Winner: David Sexton – London Evening Standard
Highly commended: Michael Deacon – The Daily Telegraph
Photographer of the Year
Winner: Rowan Griffiths – Daily Mirror
Highly commended: Ben Birchall – Press Association and
Stefan Rousseau – Press Association
Sports Photographer of the Year
Winner: Marc Aspland – The Times
Highly commended: Martin Rickett – Press Association
Cartoonist of the Year
Winner: Peter Brookes – The Times
Highly commended: Matt Pritchett – The Daily Telegraph
Scoop of the Year
Winner: ‘62p an hour’, Ben Ellery, The Mail on Sunday
Highly commended: ‘Boxing legend Frank: I’m now a woman’, Matthew Drake, Sunday Mirror and
‘Fifa Files: Plot to buy the World Cup’, Insight, The Sunday Times
News Reporter of the Year
Winner: Andrew Norfolk – The Times
Highly commended: Insight – The Sunday Times and
Ben Ellery – The Mail on Sunday
The Digital Award
Winner: Daily Mirror
Highly commended: The Guardian
Front Page of the Year
Winner: ‘Here is the news, not the propaganda’ – The Independent on Sunday
Highly commended: ‘62p an hour’ – The Mail on Sunday and
‘The Vow’ – Daily Record
Supplement of the Year
Winner: The Times Magazine
Highly commended: Notebook – Sunday Mirror
Business Team of the Year
Winner: Financial Times
Highly commended: The Times
Sports Team of the Year
Winner: Daily Record
Highly commended: Mail Sport
News Team of the Year
Winner: The Sunday Times
Highly commended: Sunday People
The Cudlipp Award
Winner: ‘My Battle for the Lost Girls of Rotherham’ – The Times
Highly commended: ‘Kids in Crisis’ – Daily Mirror
The Journalists’ Charity Award
Winner: Matt Pritchett – The Daily Telegraph
The Georgina Henry Women in Journalism Prize for Innovation
Winner: Laura Bates – Everyday Sexism Extension
Highly commended: Iram Ramzan – Interactive blog for moderate Muslim voices
The Chairman’s Award
Winner: Jonathan Grun, Emeritus Editor, Press Association
Newspaper of the Year
Winner: The Times
