The best of Northern Ireland’s journalism has been celebrated at the annual Chartered Institute of Public Relations Press and Broadcast Awards.

Nineteen prizes were handed out at the awards ceremony in Belfast across print, photography and broadcast journalism.

Among the big winners were the Irish News and County Down Spectator which were crowned daily and weekly newspapers of the year respectively.

The Belfast Telegraph picked up four awards as well as lifetime achievement recognition for its former sports editor Malcolm Brodie.

The judging panel included executive director of the Society of Editors, Bob Satchwell, Press Association editor Jonathan Grun and Brien Beharrell, editorial director at the Newbury Weekly News Group.

The full list of print winners is:

Newspaper of the Year
Daily – Irish News
Sunday – Sunday World

Weekly Newspaper of the Year
County Down Spectator

News Journalist of the Year
Daily – David Gordon, Belfast Telegraph
Sunday – Martin Breen*, News of the World

Weekly Journalist of the Year
Mark McKelvey, Ulster Herald

Business Journalist of the Year
James Stinson, Irish News

Newcomer of the Year
Chrissie Russell, Belfast Telegraph

Specialist Journalist of the Year
Paula Mackin, Sunday World

News website of the Year
Community Telegraph

Magazine/Supplement of the Year
Magazine – Ulster Tatler Interiors, Ulster Journals
Supplement – 24/7 section, Belfast Telegraph

Sports Journalist of the Year
Jim Gracey, Sunday Life

Martin O’Hagan Memorial Bursary Newcomer of the Year
Chrissie Russell, Belfast Telegraph

Photographer of the Year
William Cherry, Press Eye

Lifetime Achievement Award
Malcolm Brodie, former sports editor of the Belfast Telegraph who retired in 1991

Feature Journalist of the Year
David McKittrick, Ireland correspondent from The Independent

Production journalist of the Year
Jeremy Kirker, Irish News

Northern Ireland Journalist of the Year
David McKittrick, The Independent

Scoop of the Year
Martin Breen, News of the World

* Martin Breen is now employed by Sunday Life