Posted by
Martin Stabe
on 5 July 2007 at 12:33
Tags: Journalism
Following MSNBC presenter Mika Brzezinski’s attempt to burn, bin and ultimately shred the script for a lead story about Paris Hilton’s release from prison last week, we ask: which stories would drive you to destruction?
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Martin Stabe
on 29 June 2007 at 15:46
Tags: Regional Press Awards
Digital Journalist of the Year
Paul Connolly, Belfast Telegraph
Specialist Reporter of the Year
Giles Shedrick, Oxford Mail
Columnist of the Year
Nicola Barry, Press & Journal, Aberdeen
Supplement of the Year
Reading Evening Post Food Monthly
Photographer of the Year (Weekly)
Steve Cobb, West Sussex County Times
Photographer of the Year (Daily & Sunday)
Mal McCann, Irish News
Designer of the Year
Tracy Feltham, Western Daily Press
Young Journalist of the Year
Catherine Oakes, Evening Telegraph, Derby
(Adrian Butler of the Liverpool Echo was highly commended)
Campaign of the Year
‘Baby James appeal’ by Sunday Life
(‘On the Buses’ by the Cambridge Evening News was highly commended)
Sports Photographer of the Year (Weekly)
Marie Caley, South Yorkshire Newspapers
Sports Photographer of the Year (Daily & Sunday)
Steve Riding, Yorkshire Evening Post
Sports Journalist of the Year (Weekly)
John Colman, The Cumberland News
Sports Journalist of the Year (Daily & Sunday)
Mike Amos, Northern Echo
(Christopher Bascombe of the Liverpool Echo was highly commended)
Subbing Team of the Year
The Evening Star, Ipswich
(The Kent Messenger was highly commended)
Website of the Year
GazetteLive.co.uk, Evneing Gazette, Teesside
Feature Writer of the Year Daily & Sunday
Keiron Pim, Eastern Daily Press
Feature Writer of the Year (Weekly)
Anne Pickles, Cumbrian Newspapers
Reporter of the Year (Weekly)
Joshua Layton, Croydon Advertiser
Reporter of the Year (Daily & Sunday)
Jon Austin, Basildon Echo
(Chris Allen from the Bristol Evening Post was highly commended)
Free Newspaper of the Year
The Comet, Hertfordshire
Weekly Newspaper of the Year (Under 20,000 circulation)
North Shropshire Chronicle
Weekly Newspaper of the Year (Over 20,000 circulation)
The Cumberland News
Daily & Sunday Newspaper of the Year (Under 40,000 circulation)
Evening Star, Ipswich
(The Lancashire Evening Post was highly commended)
Daily & Sunday Newspaper of the Year (Over 40,000 circulation)
The Belfast Telegraph
(The Manchester Evening News was highly commended)
Posted by
Martin Stabe
on 29 June 2007 at 14:22
Tags: Regional Press Awards
Press Gazette editor-in-chief Tony Loynes opened the Regional Press Awards at the Royal Lancaster Hotel this afternoon by honouring Rose Hacker of the Camden New Journal, who has just been accepted into the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s oldest columnist, at the age of 101.
Your blogging correspondent has already been reprimanded by the Regional Press Awards judges for working at the awards while drinking. After hearing my protestations that I was not drinking, I was reprimanded for that. I’ve been allowed to carry on by promising to begin drinking as soon as this has been posted.
That should not pose many difficulties: Loynes also warned that drinks would be plentiful this afternoon.
“The three course lunch will now be served; the awards ceremony will follow, after which there will be a bar outside in the foyer. And when that bar closes I think you all know where the other one is.”
Lunch consisted of a salmon steak with braised leeks, new potatoes and a red pepper sauce, followed by summer berries with a limoncello liqueur sauce.
The awards are about to start.
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