There are now an ever-increasing number of regional and national industry awards providing recognition for the hard work journalists put in to producing newspapers each day.
Whatever the award, whether it be for specialist writing or UK-wide events, we will strive to cover them in this section.
The Bristol Evening Post has been named daily Campaigning Newspaper of the Year for its Clubsafe campaign at the Newspaper Society’s Sales and Promotions Awards. The Sentinel and Brighton Argus were both Highly Commended for their its Proud of the
Stephen Lucas has been named winner of the annual LGcommunications Prize for Young Journalists. He received the £250 prize for what was judged to be the best local government paper submitted in the National Council for the Training of Journalists
A record number of entries has been received at the 2002 Scottish Press Awards. Overall entries are up by 11 per cent to 362, thanks to new categories attracting extra interest, with international and Scottish political stories dominating the entries.
Journalists working in Scotland will be vying for the limelight next month as the region’s BT Media Awards are held. Nominees for the majority of categories have now been announced, and include staff from the Glasgow Evening Times, Scotsman, and
The Somerset County Gazette has received a top national honour in recognition of its charity work. The paper has been presented with NCH’s Media Award following its ‘Supporting Somerset’s Youth’ campaign, launched to fund six projects across Somerset. The trophy
Sunday newspapers will compete with dailies and weeklies for the cherished 2001 BT Media Awards for the South East and Eastern region. The shortlist reveals six nominations for The Argus, Brighton, and three each for the Eastern Daily Press and
Top photographers from around the regional press are to battle it out with agency snappers and staffers from the nationals for the Picture Editors’ Awards 2002. The winners will be decided by picture editors’ votes through the awards website. The
The Northern Echo has been voted Best Reader Travel Newspaper of the Year at a prestigious awards ceremony. It is the second year running that the ‘Great Daily of the North’ has won the Association of Newspaper Group Organisers of
An award ceremony at York Racecourse awaits the nominees for the Northern region of the BT Media Awards. More than 400 entries were received from the Northern region, and the shortlist has now been announced. Among the nominees are staff
The 2002 Guardian Student Media Awards have been announced, as the contest enters its 24th year. The event is to recognise the diverse student journalism talent, with prizes for writers, photographers and editors. The judges will take into account energy
The cream of the broadcasting world will be pitted against the very best of the print press in the Wales heat of the 2001 BT Media Awards, the nominations showed today. Among the nominees are staff from the South Wales
Journalists around south-west England now know who’s vying for the limelight, with the announcement of the second set of nominations for the regional BT Media Awards. Among the shortlisted entries for 14 categories are staff and organisations from Torquay and
Journalists from the Daily Echo were among those honoured at this year’s Hammond-Whiteley memorial awards. The annual awards are designed to reward excellence in journalism in Bournemouth and Dorset and plaques were presented to the winners by Martin Blaney, chairman
Former Western Telegraph reporter Stephen Evans has won an American award for his on-the-spot coverage of the World Trade Centre attacks. His work, coupled with the BBC World Service’s wider coverage of the war in Afghanistan, won the George Polk
The Leicester Mercury has won international recognition for its work to highlight the problem of counterfeit goods. The Global Anti Counterfeiting Group, an international group of organisations working to fight the growing trade in fake products, has commended the Mercury
The Lincolnshire Echo scooped four prestigious local newspaper promotion awards at the recent Northcliffe marketing and sales awards in Coventry. The Echo collected two winners and two runners-up places for promotions involving the Red Arrows, the local festival of football,