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British Press Awards: Newspaper of the Year

Posted by Martin Stabe on 20 March 2006 at 21:07
Tags: British Press Awards, Guardian, Journalism

The Guardian has been named national Newspaper of the Year. For the first time this year, the shortlist was voted on by 130 senior journalists. The paper was praised for its transition to the Berliner format, making it a newspaper for the 21st century.

The award was named by a surprise guest, Home Secretary Charles Clarke, who praised British newspapers for not printing the Danish cartoons of the prophet Muhammad before holding up a copy of the destinctive Berliner-sized paper.

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Tags: British Press Awards, Guardian, Journalism

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1. malcolm |  20 March 2006 at 10:52pm

   “We’ve got a lovely blue masthead…. we’ve got the Paper of the Year bauble…. We’ve even brought back Doonesbury…. so come on readers, where the bloody hell are you?”

2. REG CROWDER |  26 March 2006 at 9:47am

   This was a very good choice. The team at THE GUARDIAN has come up with a product that possesses both beauty and substance. Both are important but, I emphasize, the latter must not be sacrificed in service to the former. (It wasn’t.) The beauty of THE GUARDIAN, as we see it now, comes from the clean, elegant functionality of the design — and NOT from flashy tricks. CONGRATULATIONS!
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