ABERDEEN newspapers, The Press and Journal and the Evening Express, are among just four Scottish entries to have reached the shortlist of this year’s Regional Press Awards.
While the Evening Express is in the running for ‘Front page of the year’, the P&J is nominated in two categories: ‘Supplement of the year’, for its ‘Your Life’, and also ‘Newspaper of the year (daily/Sunday)’ with a circulation of above 40,000.
In that same category is Glasgow’s Evening Times and the pair are battling it out with the Belfast Telegraph, the Hull Daily Mail and the Manchester Evening News.
And making up the Scottish quartet is Eric Mackinnon, of the West Lothian Courier, who has been shortlisted in the ‘Sports journalist of the year (weekly newspapers)’ category.
The awards are run by the Press Gazette, which has just announced it’s about to stop producing the hard copy of its magazine and also to stop reporting news on its website.
But the awards, say the owners, still go ahead.
Says Press Gazette editor, Dominic Ponsford: “It’s been an incredibly tough year for everyone working in the regional press. The work of all these awards finalists is a tribute to the gutsy determination and great story-telling which, more than anything else, will ensure that regional journalism has a great future.
“Without local newspaper journalists knocking on doors, attending meetings and poring over council minutes, so many stories, which go on to get picked up by national media outlets, would never see the light of day.”
The awards ceremony takes place on the eighth of next month.
The shortlist reads:
Multimedia journalist of the year
Nicola Dowling, Manchester Evening News
Gary Gratton, Belfast Telegraph
Joanna Hunter, Hull Daily Mail
Debbie Lockett, Worksop Guardian
Joseph Watts, Nottingham Evening Post
Katy Wood, Hull Daily Mail
Reporter of the year (weekly)
Gemma Collins, East London Advertiser
Julia Gregory, East London Advertiser
Victoria Huntley, East London Advertiser
Oliver Hulme, Wells Journal
Amy Parkes, Rotherham Advertiser
Peter Sherlock, Hackney Gazette
Peter Truman, Croydon Guardian
Reporter of the year (daily/Sunday)
Jon Austin, Basildon Echo
Phil Coleman, News & Star (Carlisle)
David Gordon, Belfast Telegraph
Neal Keeling, Manchester Evening News
Adam Lovell, Hull Daily Mail
Jeanette Oldham, Sunday Mercury
Columnist of the year
Nick Ahad, Yorkshire Post
Stacia Briggs, Norwich Evening News
Jeremy Clay, Leicester Mercury
Jayne Dawson, Yorkshire Evening Post
Colin Drury, Halifax Evening Courier
Hannah Dunleavy, Cambridge News
Erik Petersen, Nottingham Evening Post
Feature writer of the year (weekly)
Dan Carrier, Camden New Journal
Jessica Cunniffe, MK News
Roger Lytollis, The Cumberland News
Anne Pickles, Cumbrian Newspapers
Michael Upton, Rotherham Advertiser
Simon Wroe, Camden New Journal
Feature writer of the year (daily/Sunday)
Nick Ahad, Yorkshire Post
Jeremy Clay, Leicester Mercury
Jo Davison, The Star, Sheffield
Lee Marlow, Leicester Mercury
Rod McPhee, Yorkshire Evening Post
Alice Ryan, Cambridge News
Specialist reporter of the year
Stephen Breen, Sunday Life
Zena Hawley, Derby Evening Telegraph
Sophie Hazan, Yorkshire Evening Post
Claire McNeilly, Belfast Telegraph
Nadia Stone, Express & Echo, Exeter
Kathryn Torney, Belfast Telegraph
Business and finance journalist of the year
Peter Edwards, Yorkshire Post
Bernard Ginns, Yorkshire Post
Paul Hill, Eastern Daily Press
Robin Johnson, Derby Evening Telegraph
Ros Snowdon, Yorkshire Post
Sam Williams, Norwich Evening News
Greg Wright, Yorkshire Post
Sports journalist of the year (weekly)
Jonathan Clegg, East London Advertiser
Jon Colman, The Cumberland News
Simone Corgan, MK News
Amanda Little, The Cumberland News
Eric Mackinnon, West Lothian Courier
Paul Rickett, Rotherham Advertiser
Sports journalist of the year (daily/Sunday)
Jon Colman, News & Star
John Gibson, Evening Chronicle
Lee Marlow, Leicester Mercury
Tom Richmond, Yorkshire Post
James Smailes, Hull Daily Mail
Martin Smith, The Star, Sheffield
Young journalist of the year
Andrew Dagnell, Wales on Sunday
Katie Davies, The Ham & High
Delia Monk, Nottingham Evening Post
Anna Roberts, Reading Evening Post
Matthew Sandy, Leicester Mercury
Mark Tallentire, The Northern Echo
Designer of the year
Chris Beckett, South London Press
Ian Bond, Hull Daily Mail
Hannah Dunleavy, Cambridge News
Lisa Tobin, Courier Media Group
James Young, Chester Evening Leader
Campaign of the year
‘Derby bites back’, Derby Evening Telegraph
‘Donor Campaign Henry Scot-Simmonds’, Gloucestershire Echo
‘High Moor tip’, Oldham Evening Chronicle
‘Price Watch team’, Belfast Telegraph
‘Tower Hamlets local history library’, East London Advertiser
‘We Care’, Express & Echo, Exeter
Photographer of the year (weekly)
Magnus Andersson, South London Press
Tim Bradley, Rochdale Observer / Heywood Advertiser
Joe Greaves-Lord, East London Advertiser
Spencer Griffiths, East London Advertiser / Hackney Gazette
Hannah Jones, South London Press
Robert Logan, South London Press
Alistair Wilson, Aldershot Newsgroup
Photographer of the year (daily/Sunday)
Anthony Chappel-Ross, The Press, York
Frank Dwyer, The Press, York
Stuart Harrison, Swindon Advertiser
Simon Hulme, Yorkshire Post
Dan Matthams, Nottingham Evening Post
Leah McLaren, Derby Evening Telegraph
Sports photographer of the year (weekly)
Magnus Andersson, South London Press
John Fryer, South Manchester Reporter
Andy Handley, MK News
Christopher Whiteoak, Aldershot News
Sports photographer of the year (daily and Sunday)
Anthony Chappel-Ross, The Press, York
Mikal Ludlow, Gloucestershire Echo
Dan Matthams, Nottingham Evening Post
Leah McLaren, Derby Evening Telegraph
Dustin Michailovs, Nottingham Evening Post
Lucy Ray, Telegraph & Argus, Bradford
Supplement of the year
‘Champions’, Manchester Evening News
‘Culture’, The Journal
‘I Love Me’, Manchester Evening News
‘Your Life’, Press & Journal
‘The Guide’, Hull Daily Mail
‘The Match’, Hull Daily Mail
‘Weekend’, Gloucestershire Echo / Citizen
Magazine of the year
Beyond Leeds
Cambridgeshire Journal
Cornwall Today
EDP Norfolk Magazine
Image Magazine
The Derbyshire Magazine
Yorkshire Life
Front page of the year
Evening Express, Aberdeen
Express & Echo, Exeter
Hull Daily Mail
Manchester Evening News
The News, Portsmouth
South London Press
APOLOGIES: the rest of this entry is unavailable, most likely because of a corrupted database.
