British Press Awards: Sports Journalist of the Year

Posted by Martin Stabe on 20 March 2006 at 20:51
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Oliver Holt of the Daily Mirror was awarded Sports Journalist of the Year.

British Press Awards: Sports Photographer of the Year

Posted by Martin Stabe on 20 March 2006 at 20:49
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The Guardian’s Tom Jenkins won Sports Photographer of the Year.

British Press Awards: The Cudlipp Award

Posted by Martin Stabe on 20 March 2006 at 20:43
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The Cudlipp Award, which is awarded to teams of journalists and recognises excellence in popular journalism. It was awarded to the News of the World for “What about the Victims”

British Press Awards: Young Journalist of the Year

Posted by Martin Stabe on 20 March 2006 at 20:41
Tags: British Press Awards, Herald, Journalism

The Young Journalist of the Year is Lucy Bannerman of the Herald.

British Press Awards: Specialist Writer of the Year

Posted by Martin Stabe on 20 March 2006 at 20:38
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The winner, Michael Smith of the Sunday Times, said it was “very very sad” that the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail are not here tonight, despite having some of the best journalists on Fleet Steet.

British Press Awards: Cartoonist of the Year

Posted by Martin Stabe on 20 March 2006 at 20:33
Tags: British Press Awards, Journalism, Sunday Times

Cartoonist of the Year is Gerald Scarfe of the Sunday Times.

British Press Awards: Photographer of the Year

Posted by Martin Stabe on 20 March 2006 at 20:29
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News and feature snappers are eligible for this award. Judges look for versitility, technical skill and a strong sense of mood captured by the submitted photographers.

The winner was freelance Edmond Terakopian for his images of the London bombings.

Brian Griffen was given special mention from the judges.

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British Press Awards: Show Business Writer of the Year

Posted by Martin Stabe on 20 March 2006 at 20:24
Tags: British Press Awards, Journalism, Sun

Show Business Writer of the Year is awarded to specialist show business writer, be they news reporters or columnists - or both.

The Show Business Writer of the Year is Victoria Newton of the Sun.

British Press Awards: Scoop of the Year

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

The Scoop of the Year is awarded to individual journalists or teams breaking the best exclusive. The judges look for journalistic enterprise and rewarded a scoop for its importance and the repercussions it caused.

The 2005 Scoop of the Year is ‘Cocaine Kate’ by Stephen Moyes of the Daily Mirror.

British Press Awards: Jon Snow on stage

Posted by Martin Stabe on 20 March 2006 at 20:12
Tags: British Press Awards, Journalism

Jon Snow draws applause by saying that television journalists are faced with a sense of inferiority in the face of the printed word.

Snow then makes a few jokes about says Iran’s House of Lords, which apparently will feature party donors, and then another one about George W. Bush being grilled by primary school children, the symptoms of bird flu (”an uncontrollable urge to shit on someone’s windscreen”), a special gun to shoot chickens at a windscreens, and how this awards ceremony feels like the Moscow Olympics.

A video of 2005’s major stories is now being shown, including the tsnuami, the 7/7 bombings, Hurricane Katrina, and the Pakistan earthquake, the death of Pope John Paul II, David Blunkett’s resignation, Charles Kennedy’s resignation, George Galloway’s Senate testimony, the sucessful Olympic bid, the Ashes victory and of course, Kate Moss’s cocaine use. The video was produced by Sky with Reuters footage.