Glasgow’s Herald and Times Group heads the shortlist for the 32nd Scottish Press Awards which will be held next month.

The titles, which include The Herald, Sunday Herald and Evening Times, are up for 20 awards across 19 categories.

Scotsman Publications is also well represented with 19 shortlist places across The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday and the Edinburgh Evening News.

The winners of the awards, which are run by the Scottish Newspaper Society, will be presented at a ceremony at the Grand Central Hotel in Glasgow on 21 April.

Six titles will fight it out for the Weekly Newspaper of the Year award – the Highland News, The Northern Scot, Fife Free Press, The Falkirk Herald, The Shetland Times, and The Inverness Courier

There is no shortlist for the Newspaper of the Year or Journalist of the Year awards, with the winner being announced at the ceremony.

Last year, The Herald took the prize for the best newspaper.

The full shortlist is:

SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR

Rob Casey, Daily Record and Sunday Mail
James Gunn, Freelance
Tony Nicoletti, Daily Record
Robert Perry, The Scotsman/Scotland on Sunday
Ian Rutherford, Scotsman Publications

NEWS PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR

James Glossop, The Times
Steven MacDougall, The Courier and Advertiser
Colin Mearns, Herald & Times Group
Andrew Milligan, Scottish Press Association
Jeff Mitchell, Getty Images
Phil Wilkinson, Scotsman Publications

CARTOONIST OF THE YEAR

Brian Adcock, Scotland on Sunday
Frank Boyle, Edinburgh Evening News
Steven Camley, The Herald/Sunday Herald
Scott Clissold, Scottish Sunday Express
Pete Davidson, The Sunday Post

YOUNG JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR

Lisa Boyle, Ayrshire Post
Ryan Crighton, Press & Journal
Marc Deanie, The Scottish Sun
Victoria Raimes, Edinburgh Evening News
Chris Watt, Herald & Times Group

NEW MEDIA JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR

Deborah Anderson, The Evening Times
John Dingwall, Daily Record
James Doleman, Sheridantrial Blog
Jasper Hamill, The Herald/ Evening Times
Beverley Lyons, Daily Record

WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR

Highland News
The Northern Scot
Fife Free Press
The Falkirk Herald
The Shetland Times
The Inverness Courier

ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR

Brian Beacom, The Herald
Beverley Lyons, Daily Record
Brian McIver, Daily Record
Phil Miller, The Herald
David Robinson, The Scotsman

MAGAZINE WRITER OF THE YEAR

Catherine Deveney, Scotland on Sunday
Adam Forrest, The Big Issue in Scotland
Chitra Ramaswamy, Scotsman Publications
Peter Ross, Scotland on Sunday
Aidan Smith, The Scotsman/Scotland on Sunday

POLITICAL JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR

Eddie Barnes, The Scotsman/Scotland on Sunday
Tom Gordon, Sunday Herald
David Maddox, The Scotsman/Scotland on Sunday
Andrew Nicoll, The Scottish Sun
Alan Roden, Scottish Daily Mail

COLUMNIST OF THE YEAR

Ian Bell, Sunday Herald
Tam Cowan, Daily Record
Bill Jamieson, The Scotsman
Bill Leckie, The Scottish Sun
Melanie Reid, The Times – Scotland

FINANCIAL/BUSINESS JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR

Erikka Askeland, The Scotsman/Scotland on Sunday
Kenny Kemp, Sunday Herald
Ian McConnell, The Herald/Sunday Herald
Tim Sharp, The Herald

NEWSPAPER FEATURE WRITER OF THE YEAR

Vicky Allan, Herald & Times Group
Jonathan Brocklebank, Scottish Daily Mail
Annie Brown, Daily Record
Hector MacKenzie, Ross-shire Journal
Edd McCracken, Sunday Herald
Peter Ross, Scotland on Sunday

SPORTS FEATURE WRITER OF THE YEAR

Douglas Alexander, Sunday Times Scotland
Bryan Cooney, Sunday Herald
Tom English, Scotland on Sunday
Bill Leckie, The Scottish Sun
David McCarthy, Daily Record

SPORTS NEWS WRITER OF THE YEAR

Robert Grieve, The Scottish Sun
Mark Guidi, Sunday Mail
Roger Hannah, The Scottish Sun
Keith Jackson, Daily Record
Darrell King, Evening Times

FRONT PAGE OF THE YEAR

Executed by the Taliban, Scottish Mail on Sunday
Apocalypse Snow, The Scottish Sun
Firestorm, Evening Telegraph
Feckless, Daily Record
Going Nowhere, Scottish Daily Mail

JOURNALIST TEAM OF THE YEAR

Kenny Angove, The Scottish Sun
Sarah Bruce, Scottish Daily Mail
Tom Gordon and Paul Hutcheon, Sunday Herald/The Herald
Lachlan MacKinnon, Daily Record
Adam Morris, Edinburgh Evening News

CAMPAIGN OF THE YEAR

Dee Campaign, Evening Telegraph
Save the IRH tea bar, Greenock Telegraph
Save RAF Lossiemouth, The Northern Scot
Movember health campaign, The Scottish Sun
Glas-goals health campaign, Evening Times

SCOOP OF THE YEAR

Eddie Barnes, The Scotsman/Scotland on Sunday – Council was set to reveal Steven Purcell drugs problem
Graham Grant, Scottish Daily Mail – Police dig at serial killer’s houses
Mark Guidi, Sunday Mail – We lied to Lenny
Paul Hutcheon, Sunday Herald/The Herald – Stressed city leader Purcell to stand down
Donna McAllister, The Press & Journal – Ambulance driver refused 999 call while on tea-break

REPORTER OF THE YEAR

Annie Brown, Daily Record
Mark Macaskill, The Sunday Times Scotland
Lynn McPherson, Sunday Mail
David Pratt, Sunday Herald/The Herald
Stephen Stewart, Sunday Mail