A regional daily celebrated a double victory at last night’s O2 Media Awards Yorkshire 2017.

The Hull Daily Mail was named Best Daily Newspaper at the ceremony, while one of its journalists, Kevin Shoesmith, shared the Best Print News Reporter accolade with the Yorkshire Post’s Rob Waugh.

The Post’s Rob Parsons also triumphed in the Most Memorable Print Story category for a piece on the Battle of Orgreave during the miners’ strike in 1984, while the Leeds-based daily’s Country Week section was named Best Magazine.

Phil Hay, of sister daily the Yorkshire Evening Post, claimed the Sports Journalism prize, while Johnston Press Yorkshire commercial content editor Graham Walker took Online Journalist of the Year.

The Whitby Gazette was named Best Weekly Newspaper.

More than 200 journalists and media executives attended the awards in Leeds hosted by BBC Breakfast’s Louise Minchin.

The full list of winners is as follows:

Image of the Year (Still photography)

Winner
Jon Corken – Grimsby Telegraph

Highly Commended
Tony Johnson – Yorkshire Post
James Hardisty – Yorkshire Post

Image of the Year (Moving pictures)

Winner
Joe Bilton – BBC Look North (East Yorkshire & Lincolnshire)

Highly Commended
Sophie Kitching – Hull Daily Mail
Mike Newton – ITV Calendar

Best Writer

Winner
Ian McMillan – The Dalesman

Highly Commended
Kevin Shoesmith – Hull Daily Mail
Tony Earnshaw – Yorkshire Post
Roberta Mothersdale – The Dalesman
Helen Meade – Bradford Telegraph & Argus

Young Journalist

Winner
Ali Fortescue – BBC Look North (Yorkshire)

Highly Commended
Sam Jones – Whitby Gazette
Ben Blosse – Hull Daily Mail
Kristian Johnson – Made In Leeds
Ben Bason – Hallam FM

Broadcast Presenter (Radio)

Winner
David Burns – BBC Radio Humberside

Highly Commended
Toby Foster – BBC Radio Sheffield
Nick Ahad – BBC Radio Leeds
Andrew Edwards – BBC Radio Leeds

Broadcast Presenter (TV)

Winner
Peter Levy – BBC Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)

Highly Commended
Owain Wyn Evans – BBC Look North
Kerry Maule – Made In Leeds
Amy Garcia – BBC Look North (Yorkshire)

TV Journalist

Winner
Caroline Bilton – BBC Look North (East Yorkshire & Lincolnshire)

Highly Commended
Gaggan Sabherwal – BBC Yorkshire
Mark Kilescz-Levine – Made In Leeds
James Vincent – BBC Look North (Yorkshire)

Best Team

Winner
Made In Leeds

Highly Commended
Global Radio (Yorkshire)
ITV Calendar KOS bureau
BBC Impact Team
Johnston Press Investigations Team

News Reporter (Print)

Joint Winners
Rob Waugh – Yorkshire Post
Kevin Shoesmith – Hull Daily Mail

Highly Commended
Rob Parsons – Yorkshire Post
Ruby Kitchen – Yorkshire Post & Yorkshire Evening Post

News Reporter (Broadcast)

Winner
Gaggan Sabherwal – BBC Yorkshire

Highly Commended
David Rhodes – BBC Yorkshire
James Webster – ITV Calendar
Katy Austin – BBC Look North (East Yorkshire & Lincolnshire)

Most Memorable (Print)

Winner
Rob Parsons – Yorkshire Post (Battle of Orgreave)

Highly Commended
Kevin Shoesmith – Hull Daily Mail (Do I look like a terrorist?)
Yorkshire Evening Post (Jo Cox murder trial)

Most Memorable (Broadcast)

Joint Winners
Caroline Bilton – BBC Inside Out for St William’s Child Abuse
Jamie Coulson – BBC Look North (Yorkshire) for Living with Dementia

Highly Commended
BBC Look North (Yorkshire) – Sammy’ story
Tracy Gee – BBC Radio Leeds – Period Poverty

Community Journalism

Winner
BBC Radio Humberside – Dead Bod

Highly Commended
Yorkshire Evening Post – Speak Your Mind
Sheffield Star – Pride in Our Schools
BBC Look North – Gaggan Sabherwal Community reporting

Radio Journalist

Winner
Tracy Gee – BBC Radio Leeds

Highly Commended
Charlotte Rose – BBC Radio Sheffield
Jhangir Ahmed – BBC Radio Leeds
Rosanna Austin – Radio Aire

Best Newspaper (Daily)

Winner
Hull Daily Mail

Highly Commended
Yorkshire Post
Huddersfield Examiner

Best Newspaper (Weekly)

Winner
Whitby Gazette

Highly Commended
Scarborough News
Goole Times & Selby Times
Bridlington Free Press

Sports Journalist

Winner
Phil Hay – Yorkshire Evening Post

High Commended
Rob Staton – BBC Radio Sheffield
Danny Hall – The Star, Sheffield
Dave Craven – Yorkshire Post

Online Journalism

Winner
BBC Hull 2017

Highly Commended
Abigail Davies – BBC Radio York
Huddersfield Daily Examiner
Hull Daily Mail

Online Journalist

Winner
Graham Walker – Johnston Press

Community Publication

Winner
Down Your Way – The Dalesman

Highly Commended
The Gryphon
Bridlington Free Press
Just Beverley

Best Magazine

Winner
Country Week – Yorkshire Post

Highly Commended
The Magazine – Yorkshire Post
The Dalesman
The Journal – Hull Daily Mail

O2 Stand Out Award

Winner
Kerry Maule – Made In Leeds

Highly Commended
Kofi Smiles – BBC Hull 2017
Owain Wyn Evans – BBC Look North

Best TV Programme (News & Factual)

Winner

True North – Mystery of the Man on the Moor

Highly Commended
BBC Yorkshire – Tornado
BBC Yorkshire & Lincolnshire (Hull 2017 UK City of Culture)

Best Radio Programme

Winner
Steve White – BBC Radio Sheffield for The Magic of John Sullivan

Highly Commended
Jonny I’Anson, BBC Radio Leeds – Bare Knuckle Boxing
Global Radio Yorkshire – Man Down
Steve Bailey, BBC Radio Sheffield – Eczema: More than skin deep
Tom Ingall, BBC Radio Sheffield – Women of Steel

O2 Judges’ Media Award for Journalism

Winner
BBC Look North & ITV Calendar