A chief reporter has claimed a hat-trick of prizes at an annual journalism awards.

Marion Scott, of Glasgow’s Sunday Post, claimed Reporter of the Year, Scoop of the Year and the Nicola Barry Award for women journalists at last night’s Scottish Press Awards.

The DC Thomson-owned title was also named Sunday Newspaper of the Year to complete a successful evening for the newspaper at the event, organised by the Scottish Newspaper Society.

There were three further prizes awarded to its sister daily the Dundee Courier, with Bryan Copland winning Best Coverage of a Live Event for his report of a riot that broke out in the city on Halloween last year.

Marion Scott is flanked by Scottish Newspaper Society director John McLellan, left, and chair of judges Richard Neville

Bryan’s colleagues Jennifer McLaren and Alan Temple won Regional Feature Writer of the Year and Sports News Writer of the Year respectively.

Aberdeen’s Press & Journal, another DC Thomson title, further claimed News Website of the Year and its journalists Stuart Findlay won Regional Reporter of the Year to cap off the publisher’s trophy haul.

It was also a good night for Orkney weekly The Orcadian, which won Weekly Newspaper of the Year, with its journalists Mark Harcus and Sarah Gilmour claiming the Local Feature Writer of the Year and Local Reporter of the Year titles respectively.

A further awards quadruple was claimed for The Scotsman after the Edinburgh-based daily won Front Page of the Year, as well as individual honours for Arts and Entertainment Journalist of the Year Janet Christie, Political Journalist of the Year Conor Matchett and Sports Feature Writer of the Year Aidan Smith.

Other winners included Newsquest’s Glasgow Herald, which won Campaign of the Year and whose reporter Marin Williams was named Financial/Business Journalist of the Year.

Its sister title the Glasgow Times was awarded Podcast of the Year, with the Largs and Millport News winning Local Campaign of the Year.

Jane Barlow became the first photographer to take the Journalist of the Year prize, while Richard Walker, the former Sunday Herald editor and The National’s founding editor, received the Lifetime Achievement Award.

A full list of winners can be found here.