THE Scots journalist, Fraser Nelson – columnist on The Daily Telegraph and editor of The Spectator magazine – has been named political journalist of the year, at the UK Press Awards.
The awards – organised by the Society of Editors – were held last night in London and it wasn’t quite as successful an evening for Nelson’s fellow shortlisted Scots, Catherine Deveney and Ian MacNicol.
Deveney had been nominated for Scoop of the Year for a piece in The Observer – UK’s top cardinal accused of ‘inappropriate acts’ by priests – while freelancer, MacNicol, was in the running for Sports Photographer of the Year.
The winners’ list reads as follows:
Young Journalist of the Year
Winner: Patrick Kingsley – The Guardian
Highly commended: Lee Price – The Sun
Business and Finance Journalist of the Year
Winner: Sarah O’Connor – Financial Times
Highly Commended: Iain Dey – The Sunday Times
Political Journalist of the Year
Winner: Fraser Nelson – The Daily Telegraph
Foreign Reporter of the Year
Winner: Anthony Loyd – The Times
Highly Commended: AA Gill – The Sunday Times
Science and Health Journalist of the Year
Winner: Sarah-Kate Templeton – The Sunday Times
Highly Commended: Steve Connor – The Independent on Sunday
Specialist Journalist of the Year
Winner: Chris Hughes – Daily Mirror
Highly Commended: Leslie Hook – Financial Times
Michael Gillard – The Sunday Times
Sports Journalist of the Year
Winner: Martin Samuel – Daily Mail
Highly Commended: Paul Hayward – The Daily Telegraph
Feature Writer of the Year – BROADSHEET
Winner: AA Gill – The Sunday Times
Highly Commended: David James Smith – The Sunday Times
Feature Writer of the Year – POP
Winner: David Jones – Daily Mail
Highly Commended: Ian Birrell – The Mail on Sunday
Interviewer of the Year – BROADSHEET
Winner: Janice Turner – The Times
Highly Commended: Camilla Long – The Sunday Times
Interviewer of the Year – POP
Winner: Jenny Johnston – Daily Mail
Highly Commended: Sue Reid – Daily Mail
Columnist of the Year – BROADSHEET
Winner: Gillian Tett – Financial Times
Highly Commended: Ian Jack – The Guardian
Columnist of the Year – POP
Winner: Dominic Lawson – Daily Mail
Highly Commended: Craig Brown – Daily Mail
Critic of the Year
Winner: Rowan Moore – The Observer
Highly commended: Peter Bradshaw – The Guardian
Showbiz Reporter of the Year
Winner: Dan Wootton – The Sun
Highly Commended: Laura Armstrong – The Sun
Photographer of the Year
Winner: Roland Leon – Sunday Mirror
Highly Commended: Jack Hill – The Times
Sports Photographer of the Year
Winner: Darren Staples – Reuters
Highly Commended: Mike Egerton – Press Association
Cartoonist of the Year
Winner: Peter Brookes – The Times
Highly Commended: Chris Riddell – The Observer
Front Page of the Year
Winner: Boiling Point – Sunday People
Highly commended: The Son – The Sun
Supplement of the Year
Winner: FT Weekend Magazine – Financial Times
Highly Commended: The Observer Tech Monthly – The Observer
The Digital Award
Winner: theguardian.com
Highly commended: Mirror.co.uk
The Times
Scoop of the Year
Winner: Crystal Meth Shame of Bank Chief – Nick Craven and Ross Slater – The Mail on Sunday
Highly Commended: Edward Snowden Files – The Guardian
Victimised for blowing whistle on NHS chiefs – Claire Ellicott – Daily Mail
News Reporter of the Year
Winner: Rob Evans and Paul Lewis – The Guardian
Highly commended: Watt and Newell – The Daily Telegraph
Sports Team of the Year
Winner: The Times
Highly commended: Daily Mail
News Team of the Year
Winner: The Mail on Sunday
Highly commended: Daily Mirror
Journalists’ Charity Award
Winner: Philippa Kennedy
The Cudlipp Award
Winner: Frontline London – London Evening Standard
Highly Commended: Stop the Bedroom Tax – Sunday People
Britain’s Hidden Slaves – The Sunday Times
Newspaper of the Year
Winner: The Guardian
Highly commended: The Mail on Sunday
Click here, for not only the winners’ list, but the work they were nominated for. And here for all the nominees.
