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Internet Website Publication of the Year

BT Welsh Press and Broadcast Awards 2000 by HoldTheFrontPage staff Internet Website Publication of the Year Winner: Total Wales, Western Mail and Echo. Judges said that of the small number of entries in this new category, Total Wales “more than

BT/Society of Editors Newcomer of the Year

BT Welsh Press and Broadcast Awards 2000 by HoldTheFrontPage staff BT/Society of Editors Newcomer of the Year Entrants were competing for the Rhian Evans Award, named in memory of a previous award winner who was killed in a car crash.

Sports Journalist of the Year

BT Welsh Press and Broadcast Awards 2000 by HoldTheFrontPage staff Sports Journalist of the Year Winner: Bob Humphrys, BBC Wales. This was his third win in the category in five years and he had also been highly commended once. Judges

Daily Newspaper of the Year

BT Welsh Press and Broadcast Awards 2000 by HoldTheFrontPage staff Daily Newspaper of the Year Winner: Western Mail The paper won the title last year and in 1992. Judges said “the depth and intelligence of its political analysis and the

Editorial Designer of the Year

BT Welsh Press and Broadcast Awards 2000 by HoldTheFrontPage staff Editorial Designer of the Year Winner: Nick Clarke, South Wales Argus. All the entrants in this class did credit to their craft, the judges said, but Nick was chosen for

Feature Writer of the Year

BT Welsh Press and Broadcast Awards 2000 by HoldTheFrontPage staff Feature Writer of the Year As always, this category was hotly contested. Judge Jim Anderson, a Sunday Telegraph columnist and former managing editor of the Daily Star, said: “While so

Business Journalist of the Year

BT Welsh Press and Broadcast Awards 2000 by HoldTheFrontPage staff Business Journalist of the Year This category produced a high standard of entries with writers on low-circulation papers submitting work equal to that from organisations with much greater resources. Winner:

MBE for retired journalist

Former South Wales Evening Post journalist Michael Boon received his MBE from the Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace. Mr Boon, who recently retired as specialist writer and Westgate columnnist with the Western Mail, was honoured for services to journalism

News In Brief – from around the regions

A REAL HANDFUL: Pensioner Godfrey Hill has been called The Messiah, an alien and a freak – because he has a thumb and five fingers on each hand. The 72-year-old retired engineer has hexadactyly. The condition is said to affect

Trinity Mirror aims for the top

Trinity Mirror aims for top spot with £150m plan Trinity Mirror, Britain’s biggest newspaper publisher, is to spend £150m on developing its Internet business over the next three years. Sixteen regional web portals – all linked to an integrated national

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Best publisher organised event – weekly newspapersWinner: West Lothian Courier – Livingston F.C. Open DayHighly commended: Morecambe Visitor – The Night Before ChristmasCertificate of merit: Oxford Times Series – In Business Exhibition Best in-paper reader offer – daily/Sunday newspapersWinner: Evening

Editor retires after 15 years

Home Secretary Jack Straw has paid a glowing tribute to Peter Butterfield, editor of the Lancashire Evening Telegraph, who has announced plans to retire at the end of May. Mr Butterfield, once of the longest-serving editors in the UK regional

Together we can boost sales

Teamwork between editorial, sales and promotions is the key to boosting regional newspaper sales. That will be one of the key messages at the Newspaper Society’s two-day annual newspaper sales conference which started in Manchester today. More than 300 delegates

Reporter is still king in New Media revolution

Thousands of local journalists around the UK will continue to play a vital role at the centre of the current New Media revolution, says the President of the Society of Editors. Neil Fowler, who is also editor of The Western