The Hull Daily Mail has been crowned Yorkshire’s top daily newspaper for the fifth time in six years.
The Northcliffe title picked up the Daily Newspaper of the Year prize at the 11th annual Yorkshire Press Awards last night.
The future is also looking bright for the paper as Mail reporter Adam Lovell walked away with Trainee of the Year while Phil Buckingham took best Sports Writer and its website thisishull.co.uk helped it win Best Multi Platform News Package.
The Daily Feature Writer of the Year prize, won by the Yorkshire Post’s Nick Ahad, was renamed in memory of Huddersfield Daily Examiner reporter Adrian Sudbury who died in August from leukaemia.
Adrian was also posthumously crowned Yorkshire Journalist of the Year for his Baldy’s Blog and campaigning work on bone marrow education in sixth form, for which the Examiner won Campaign of the Year.
The awards ceremony was held in Wakefield and hosted by news broadcaster Clare Frisby.
The full list of winners is:
Yorkshire Newspaper of the Year (Daily)
Winner: Hull Daily Mail
Highly Commended: Yorkshire Evening Post
Yorkshire Newspaper of the Year (Weekly)
Winner: Harrogate Advertiser
Highly Commended: Doncaster Free Press
Yorkshire Journalist of the Year
Winner: Adrian Sudbury, Huddersfield Daily Examiner
News Reporter of the Year (Daily)
Winner: Sophie Hazan, Yorkshire Evening Post
Highly Commended: Rob Waugh, Yorkshire Post
News Reporter of the Year (Weekly)
Winner: John Edwards, Bridlington Free Press
Highly Commended: Julie Bartram, Dewsbury Reporter
Headline Writer of the Year
Winner: Kate Wobschall, Dewsbury Reporter/Spenborough Guardian
Highly Commended: Dennis Sissons, Driffield Times
Breaking News Story of the Year
Winner: Dewsbury Reporter
Highly Commended: The Press, York
Best Multi Platform News Package
Winner: Hull Daily Mail
Highly Commended: Scarborough Evening News
Campaign of the Year
Winner: Huddersfield Daily Examiner
Highly Commended: Harrogate Advertiser and Hull Daily Mail
Business Writer of the Year
Winner: Greg Wright, Yorkshire Post
Highly Commended: Jenni Moulson, Harrogate Advertiser
Leader Writer of the Year
Winner: Tom Hay, Wetherby News
Highly Commended: Ed Asquith, Scarborough Evening News and ‘Paperclip’, Bridlington Free Press
Columnist of the Year
Winner: Barry Gibson, Huddersfield Daily Examiner
Highly Commended: Tom Richmond, Yorkshire Post and Rod McPhee, Yorkshire Evening Post
The Adrian Sudbury Daily Feature Writer of the Year
Winner: Nick Ahad, Yorkshire Post
Highly Commended: Allison Coggan, Hull Daily Mail
Feature Writer of the Year (Weekly)
Joint Winners: Deborah Wain and Kate Mason, Doncaster Free Press
Highly Commended: John Edwards, Bridlington Free Press
Photographer of the Year (Daily)
Winner: Garry Atkinson, The Press, York
Highly Commended: Simon Hulme, Yorkshire Post, and Sarah Washbourn, Yorkshire Evening Post
Photographer of the Year (Weekly)
Winner: Stephen Garnett, Craven Herald
No highly commended
Sports Writer of the Year
Winner: Phil Buckingham, Hull Daily Mail
Highly Commended: Tom Richmond, Yorkshire Post
Front Page of the Year
Winner: Yorkshire Evening Post – “This is how much it hurts”
Highly Commended: Yorkshire Evening Post – “Farewell to Jane” and Hull Daily Mail – “The Proof: A city swamped”
Trainee Journalist of the Year
Winner: Adam Lovell, Hull Daily Mail
Highly Commended: Claire Armstrong, Dewsbury Reporter, Olivia Midgley, Spenborough Guardian and Paul Goodwin, Doncaster Free Press