THE editor of the Sunday Herald and The National newspapers has been named Editor of the Year at a media awards ceremony held by the titles’ publishers, UK-wide.
Richard Walker was named the winner at the internal event run by Newsquest, with the Sunday Herald also named Newspaper of the Year.
The winners were:
Publishing centre: Worcester
Newspaper: Sunday Herald
Senior advertising manager: Caroline Smith, Stourbridge
Editor: Richard Walker
Sales executive: Emma Liley, Kendal
Journalist: Samantha Harman, Weymouth
Photojournalist: Simon Dack, Brighton
Innovator: Jenny Thompson, North-east England
Unsung hero: Howie Blanks, Brighton
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MOST of The Scotsman’s page three today is given over to an article about World Press Photo of the Year – won by Danish photographer, Mads Nissen.
The winning picture was an intimate scene of a gay couple in Russia.
Read the Scotsman article, here.
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CONGRATULATIONS to the DC Thomson title, The Scots Magazine, which – according to latest official figures – registered an year-on-year increase in its print-only circulation throughout the UK and the Republic of Ireland.
Says auditors, ABC, the title’s average 25,109 print-only circulation for the 12 months up to December last year was up two per cent on 12 months’ previously.
Read more, here, in the allmediascotland feature: The Media in Figures.
Most of the Scots titles identified saw their year-on-year print circulations fall.
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