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 shortlist of journalists for this year’s Allen Wright Award, for writing about the Edinburgh Fringe, has been announced. The winner will be revealed tonight at an exclusive invitation-only party. The shortlist of nominees comprises: Dan Bye, Stephan Phelan and
Entries are now being sought for the 2002 Yorkshire Bank Northern Business Journalist of the Year Awards. The competition is open to all journalists and media who are based in the north of England, from the Trent to the Scottish
The shortlist for the Guardian Student Media Awards 2002 has been announced. Now in their 24th year, the awards recognise and reward the best student journalists, editors and photographers with the prizes being awarded in 13 categories. An overall winner
Holdthefrontpage has been named the best journalism service in Europe. The accolade came last night when the site was named the Best Overall Journalism Service in the 2002 European Online Journalism Awards. Publisher Patrick Astill and journalist Nikki Sargeson picked
The Yorkshire Post has been crowned Newspaper of the Year in the Regional Newspaper Awards.The paper beat Free Newspaper of the Year The Wharf, and the Wiltshire Gazette & Herald, which was named Weekly Newspaper of the Year. The Yorkshire
It may seem to the outside world to be a small evening paper that covers the news in sleepy Suffolk. But the Ipswich-based Evening Star is wowing the people that count – its peers in the newspaper industry. It was
A former regional press reporter has won an award for his magazine in Hong Kong. Steve Shellum, who worked as a reporter and sub editor on the Exeter Express & Echo, received the award from the Society of Publishers in
Nottingham Evening Post photojournalist Peter Jordan has received a surprise award. In recognition of his journalistic work in the community, Peter was presented with the vocational service cup from the Rotary Club of Wollaton Park, during its end-of-year dinner. Peter,
The West Midlands Media Awards are to take place for the first time next March. The event, organised by Birmingham Press Club, had originally been planned to take place this autumn, but they have now decided to wait until the
A journalist from the Yorkshire Post has been awarded the Refugee Week Media Award. Feature writer Sheena Hastings won the award, which is sponsored by the Refugee Council, for a feature about the public’s attitude towards asylum seekers and how
The Stoke Sentinel’s crime reporter, Samantha Lawton has won a national award for her work. She was named Student Journalist of the Year in awards sponsored by Press Gazette, after completing her journalism studies at Wolverhampton College by studying one
Page 1 of 2 The Blackpool Gazette has been chosen as this year’s top daily newspaper at the annual BNFL-sponsored North West Newspaper Awards. The Gazette fought off tough competition from last year’s winner, the News & Star, Carlisle, and
A journalist from The Scotsman has won a top award in British agricultural and countryside journalism. Fordyce Maxwell, the paper’s rural affairs editor, received the Netherthorpe Award for lifetime achievement after being nominated by colleagues. The judging panel praised him
A journalist is to be admitted to the renowned Ovate Order at the National Eisteddfod in Pembrokeshire next month. The honour for Dafydd Norman Jones, who retired from the Caernarfon and Denbigh Herald, has come from the Gorsedd of Bards,
The oldest female working journalist in Kent has been awarded the MBE for her outstanding service to the community. Barbara Butcher (84) – who last year plunged 200ft in a charity bungee jump – has been reporting the news around
Reg Herbert, former editor-in-chief of the Evening Leader newspaper group, has been awarded an MBE by the Queen for his services to journalism. The popular journalist, pictured right, who served the Wrexham and Evening Leader from 1959 until his retirement