PTC New Talent Awards: full list of winners

Posted by William Turvill on 2 February 2012 at 12:17
Tags: B2B Magazines, Consumer Magazines, Journalism, Magazines, Media Business, awards

Property Week’s Nick Johnstone was awarded a double honour at the Periodicals Training Council’s 2012 New Talent Awards.

As well as picking up the new business deatures journalist of the year award, Johnstone also won the biggest prize on offer, the Grand Prix.

Shortlist.com’s Tom Cullen, was named new editor of the year, and Amy Grier, of Shortlist’s sister title Stylist, won new consumer journalist of the year. (more…)

Kent Media Awards: full list of winners

Posted by William Turvill on 31 January 2012 at 10:15
Tags: BBC, Broadcast, People, Radio, Regional Newspapers, awards

BBC Radio Kent presenter Julia George received a double honour at this year’s Kent Media Awards.

As well as being named Journalist of the Year, George also won the Kent Broadcast Journalist of the Year award. (more…)

Archant awards: full list of winners

Posted by William Turvill on 24 January 2012 at 10:30
Tags: Journalism, Magazines, People, Regional Newspapers, awards

Archant’s group design editor Steve Bodycomb was named Editorial Person of the Year at the company’s annual internal awards ceremeony on Friday.

Other award winners included group digital development manager James Parfitt, who was named  New Media Person of the Year, and Devon Life staff writer Anna Turns, who won Green Person of the Year.

Business and Professional Life magazine and the Royal Ascot Magazine were also honoured.

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Property Week wins four prizes at International Building Press Awards

Posted by Press Gazette on 28 November 2011 at 11:58
Tags: B2B Magazines, Magazines, awards

Property Week was the big winner at last week’s International Building Press national journalism awards - picking up four prizes.

Here is the fill list of winners: (more…)

Matthew D’Ancona named ‘commentariat’ of the year

Posted by Press Gazette on 20 October 2011 at 09:32
Tags: People, awards

Matthew D’Ancona was named comment writer of the year at the annual comment awards organised by media networking and events company Editorial Intelligence this morning.

The Times and the Financial Times were the two publications with the most prizes, picking up four each.

Here is the full list of winners: (more…)

Nominations revealed for building press awards

Posted by Press Gazette on 11 October 2011 at 11:33
Tags: B2B Magazines, Journalism, Magazines, Media Business, National Newspapers, awards

The nominations for the IBP national journalism awards have been announced - with winners due to be revealed at Chelsea football club on 24 November.

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Steve Hewlett’s Media Show grilling of Peta Buscombe wins Nick Clarke Award (audio)

Posted by Dominic Ponsford on 10 October 2011 at 06:52
Tags: Broadcast, Radio, awards

Media Show persenter Steve Hewlett has won this year’s Nick Clarke award for journalism for his interview with Press Complaints Commission chair in February this year.

Hewlett gave Buscombe a grilling on the Media Show in February this year - before the Dowler revelations, but a point when the regulator was already under pressure over its handling of the phone-hacking scandal. (more…)

University honours for two Archant editors in Suffolk

Posted by Myriam Dijck on 28 June 2011 at 11:07
Tags: Regional Newspapers, awards

The editors of two daily newspapers at Archant’s Suffolk newspapers will be made honorary fellows at University Campus Suffolk.

East Anglian Daily Times editor Terry Hunt and Evening Star editor Nigel Pickover have been in their roles since 1996.

Pickover, who has lived in Suffolk since 1993, has overseen numerous campaigns at the Star - including the campaign to establish the University Campus Suffolk, which opened in 2007.

He also scooped the best daily newspaper award at the Regional Press Awards in 2007 and 2008.

Pickover, originally from Sheffield, started in journalism aged 17 and previously worked for the Daily Mail and the Daily Express in Manchester.

“This honour from the fantastic new university in my adopted county is wonderful recognition for what we have achieved at the Star over the last 15 years,” said Pickover.

Hunt, born and bred in Suffolk, started his carrer at the East Anglian Daily Times in 1979. He worked on several other papers - including a stint as editor of the Evening Star - before returning to the Daily Times as editor in 1996.

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Wannabe Hacks scoop Kingston journalism enterprise award

Posted by Myriam Dijck on 24 June 2011 at 14:08
Tags: Journalism, Media Business, Student Journalism, awards

Two founders of the Wannabe Hacks blog have won journalism enterprise competition MyNewsBiz run by Kingston University.

Nick Petrie (who works as a community manager at the Telegraph) and Ben Whitelaw (a content coordinator at The Guardian) will get £1,000 pounds to help start up their business. With their company Visualist, they want to teach the skills needed to do data journalism in smaller newsrooms. (more…)

Cash prize offered for young ethnic minority journalist of the year

Posted by Sam Brodbeck on 2 June 2011 at 15:18
Tags: awards

Up and coming young journalists from ethnic minority backgrounds have the chance to win £500 and a week’s work experience at the Daily Mail as part of the GG2 Leadership & Diversity Awards. (more…)

Yorkshire Post launches Business Club

Posted by Sam Brodbeck on 2 June 2011 at 09:15
Tags: Newspapers, Regional Newspapers, awards

Businesses in the north of England have been given a new ideas sharing forum as The Yorkshire Post launched its Business Club in Leeds this week.

Open to all companies shortlisted in the last five years of the Yorkshire Post Excellence in Business Awards, the Business Club will hold about four events a year. (more…)

Former Western Morning News editor nominated for British Sports Books Award

Posted by Elsa Buchanan on 12 April 2011 at 14:47
Tags: Newspapers, awards

Barrie Williams, former editor of the Kent Evening Post, the Nottingham Evening Post and the Western Morning News was nominated today in the British Sports Books Awards for the biography of the year, at the London Book Fair.

He is nominated for ‘Get in there!’, the life story of Tommy Lawton, the late England football star, reckoned to be England’s best ever centre forward. (more…)

Channel 4 and BBC lead One World Media Awards shortlist

Posted by Press Gazette on 7 April 2011 at 11:23
Tags: BBC, Broadcast, International, Journalism education, People, Radio, Television, awards

The BBC and Channel 4 lead the shortlist for the One World Media Awards with each picking up nine nominations.

The nominations come across 13 award categories with Lindsey Hilsum, international editor of Channel 4 News, and Jill McGivering, South Asia editor for the BBC World Service, both nominated for the journalist of the year prize.
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City University’s first alumni award goes to Guardian data journalist Simon Rogers

Posted by Press Gazette on 22 March 2011 at 10:40
Tags: Mobile, National Newspapers, New Media, Newspapers, Online, People, Student Journalism, awards

City University has presented Guardian data journalist Simon Rogers with its inaugural XCity Award.

The institution said the prize was established to recognise a former student who had made an outstanding contribution to journalism in the past year. (more…)

Hull Daily Mail reporter honoured for uncovering evidence that jailed rapist

Posted by Press Gazette on 22 February 2011 at 10:22
Tags: Law, Newspapers, People, awards, press freedom

A Hull Daily Mail reporter whose work helped convict a rapist has been honoured for uncovering vital evidence of the crime which took place 26 years ago. (more…)

Entries now open for new Society of Editors Regional Press Awards

Posted by Dominic Ponsford on 14 February 2011 at 12:34
Tags: Regional Newspapers, awards

The new Society of Editors Regional Press Awards is now open for entries.

Entries cost £25 (plus VAT) and the closing date is 8 March. An awards dinner is due to be held on 11 May.

The new event has come about after the rights to the Regional Press Awards (organised for many years by Press Gazette) were retained by our previous owner Wilmington, which opted not to continue holding the event. Last year the NUJ organised its own Regional Press Awards event.

It is not yet clear whether the NUJ will be holding its event this year (which last year was free to enter). But it looks unlikely after the Newspaper Society said its members had agreed not to enter any competing events.

More details here at www.theregionalpressawards.org.

It’s great news that the Society of Editors has managed to ensure that a national event celebrating the best of UK regional newspaper jourrnalism will continue. And it all helps a good cause as any profits from the Society of Editors Regional Press Awards will go to the Journalists’ Charity.

Medical Journalists’ Association unveils award winners

Posted by Press Gazette on 11 February 2011 at 12:19
Tags: Broadcast, Journalism, Radio, Television, awards

A film about euthanasia by Ray Tostevin for Panorama scooped broadcast TV award at the Medical Journalists’ Association Winter Awards earlier this week. (more…)

Channel 4 leads RTS Journalism Awards shortlist with 13 nominations

Posted by Press Gazette on 8 February 2011 at 10:38
Tags: BBC, Broadcast, Journalism, Television, awards

Channel 4 leads the Royal Television Society Journalism Awards shortlist with 13 nominations, including in the news coverage category, the international category and for the scoop of the year.

Coverage of the Chilean Miners Rescue brought Channel 4 its news coverage nomination and a Dispatches programme Politicians For Hire, produced by Vera Productions, brought the scoop nomination. (more…)

Michael Atherton eyes unique double as SJA unveils broadcast awards shortlist

Posted by Press Gazette on 4 February 2011 at 08:54
Tags: BBC, Broadcast, Journalism, Radio, Television, awards

Times cricket correspondent Michael Atherton is in line for a unique double after being named as one of six nominees up for the Sports Journalists Association broadcaster of the year prize.

Former England cricket captain Atherton, who was named 2009 SJA British Sports Writer of the Year, could add to that accolade after being included on this year’s broadcast shortlist for his work on Sky Sport’s Test cricket coverage. (more…)

Derek Johnson named Kent journalist of the year

Posted by Press Gazette on 25 January 2011 at 11:22
Tags: Journalism, Newspapers, People, Regional Newspapers, awards

ITV Meridian’s Derek Johnson (above, centre) has been named Kent journalist of the year.

Johnson was also named broadcast Journalist of the year at the awards event, held last week at the Faversham brewery of sponsor Shepherd Neame. (more…)