Nine new prizes – including those honouring daily newspapers and news websites – have been introduced for this year’s Scottish Press Awards.

The 2021 edition of the awards are now open for entries, with a total of 33 categories up for grabs.

Organising body the Scottish Newspaper Society hs this year introduced awards for News Website, Daily Newspaper of the Year and Sunday Newspaper of the Year.

The other new categories are Specialist Reporter, Student Journalist, Food and Drink Writer, Travel Writer and Best Coverage of a Live Event, while a Chairman’s Award will also be given.

SNS director John McLellan said: “By harnessing digital innovation, the high-quality journalism produced by Scottish news publishers is reaching more people than ever and throughout the tragic pandemic year the quality, independent reporting Scottish journalists produce every day has never mattered more.

“Like all our lives, this year’s Scottish Press Awards will inevitably be dominated by Covid-19, but despite all the difficulties we have reflected the confidence in what we do as an industry by expanding the awards to give more recognition to the diversity of both content and publishing categories which have helped guide readers through these times.

“We are particularly pleased to introduce the new student journalist category, which we hope will encourage the next generation in the Scottish tradition of great writers and reporters.

“We very much look forward to being able to gather to celebrate all that’s good about Scottish journalism and these expanded awards will once again show there is a lot to celebrate, support and defend.”

If pandemic restrictions allow, the awards ceremony and dinner will take place at the DoubleTree by Hilton Glasgow Central on 22 September 2021.

More information can be found here.