The line up of judges for this year’s EDF Energy London and South of England Media Awards can now be unveiled.
Judging for the awards, run in association with HoldtheFrontPage, is taking place later this month in Derby with the ceremony to be held in October.
As usual our six-person panel of judges contains some impressive names with decades of journalistic experience, including the current president of the Society of Editors.
The deadline for the awards, which cover Dorset, Hampshire, Kent, London, Surrey and East and West Sussex, is now being extended by a week until Friday 24 July to allow hard-pressed newsrooms more time to get their entries together.
Here is our judging panel:
Nigel began his career at 17 as a trainee on The Star, in Sheffield, and has worked as a sub-editor on both the Daily Mail and Daily Express.
Progressing through the Northcliffe ranks he became editor of the Express and Echo, Exeter, in 1997 before returning to Derby as editor in 2005.
Before taking up the role, he had been editor of CIN’s Sutton Coldfield Observer between 2000 and 2005 and was also previously deputy group editor.
After working in national newspapers, Paul helped establish the press photography and photojournalism course at Sheffield College where he is now course leader.
She began her journalism career as a reporter on weekly and evening papers and is an experienced Chartered Institute of Public Relations-approved media trainer.
He began his career as a reporter at the Herts and Essex Observer and was deputy chief sub at the Norwich Evening News and assistant chief sub at The Argus, Brighton, before taking up his present role.
With the deadline being extended, there is still a week to enter any of the 20 categories.
The entry form with award criteria can be downloaded here.
Completed forms should be sent to:
Paul Linford
HoldtheFrontPage,
Northcliffe House
Meadow Road
Derby
DE1 2BH.
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