A week-long public vote to find the best regional newspaper campaign of the past year is now under way.
The competition is running in conjunction with Local Newspaper Week, which began yesterday, with 37 different campaigns from across the UK regional press up for consideration.
An online poll on the event’s website offers the public the chance to vote for their newspaper of choice as part of the ‘Making a Difference’ campaign, which aims to highlight the good work undertaken by the nation’s local papers.
Campaigns in the running include a drive by the Manchester Evening News to raise funds for the Manchester Dogs’ Home after a fire which killed 60 animals, the Birmingham Mail’s call for justice for the victims of 1974’s pub bombings in the city, pictured below, and the Derby Telegraph’s plea to help find 15,000 new organ donors.
A full list of contenders can be found here, with clickable links offering a brief description of each campaign and a button allowing readers to cast their vote.
Last year the award was won by The Yorkshire Post’s ‘Loneliness: The Hidden Epidemic’ campaign, which was set up with the aim of combatting the problem on its patch.
The winner will be announced at Friday’s Regional Press Awards.
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I’m somewhat baffled by The 75-year Cover-Up of the 1974 Pub Bombings on the 2014 front page of the Birmingham Mail Investigation supplement
By my reckoning, 75 years would put the bombings in 1939 when the Nazis were busy bombing everything in sight. Surely not!
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I may be missing something – having not been able to read the other 15 pages – but the cover text implies the cover-up began 35 years before the tragic event took place.
Seriously, if this is an “error” it is so bad that it throws doubt on the accuracy of the rest of the contents and does a great disservice to those who put the supplement together.
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Judicial papers to be kept secret for 75 years.
This interweb thing has its uses. I googled Birmingham bombings 75 year cover up, and read the Mail’s story. Try checking before criticising.
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OK, but going solely on that cover and the HTFP story, there is no clue to the 75-year figure and I shouldn’t need to search for it. I live outside the Midlands and made clear I was not in a position to read the full supplement.
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So you judge a book by its cover? I live outside the Midlands, this interwebnet is a marvellous tool for checking facts when not judging books by theit covers.
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