SCOTS journalists, Melanie Reid and Gordon Smart, have been shortlisted in this year’s British Press Awards.
The awards have Reid, who writes for The Times, up against four contenders in the Columnist of the Year (broadsheet) category.
At last year’s Scottish Press Awards, Reid was named Journalist of the Year. In April two years ago, she suffered serious spinal injuries following a horseriding accident. Still in rehab and working from home, she is, she says, “typing stubbornly with one finger”.
Meanwhile, Smart – editor of The Sun’s Bizarre column – is in the running for the Showbiz Writer of the Year prize.
The winners will be announced on the 20th of next month.
Next week, a second tranche of nominations will be announced: the newspaper ones.
This shortlist reads:
Young Journalist of the Year
George Arbuthnott, The Mail on Sunday
Simon Boyle, Daily Mirror
Laurie Penny, The Independent
Laura Pitel, The Times
Ruth Sherlock, The Daily Telegraph
Business & Finance Journalist of the Year
Alex Brummer, Daily Mail
John Gapper, Financial Times
Andrew Hill, Financial Times
James Quinn, The Sunday Telegraph
Harry Wilson & Philip Aldrick, The Daily Telegraph
Political Journalist of the Year
Matthew D’Ancona, The Daily Telegraph/London Evening Standard
Isabel Oakeshott, The Sunday Times
Peter Oborne, The Daily Telegraph
Rachel Sylvester, The Times
Simon Walters, The Mail on Sunday
Foreign Reporter of the Year
Ian Birrell, Freelance
Martin Chulov, The Guardian
Andrew Gilligan, The Daily/Sunday Telegraph
Hala Jaber, The Sunday Times
Roula Khalaf, Financial Times
Showbiz Reporter of the Year
Nicola Methven, Daily Mirror
Sara Nathan, Daily Mail
Colin Robertson, The Sun
Gordon Smart, The Sun
Ben Todd, Daily Mail
Sports Journalist of the Year
David Conn, The Guardian
Martin Samuel, Daily Mail
Mark Souster, The Times
David Walsh, The Sunday Times
Martyn Ziegler, Press Association
Specialist Reporter of the Year
Amelia Gentleman, The Guardian
Robert Hardman, Daily Mail
Jeremy Laurance, The Independent
Sarah O’Connor, Financial Times
Jay Rayner, The Observer
Feature Writer of the Year – BROADSHEET
John Arlidge, The Sunday Times
John Henley, The Guardian
Jon Ronson, The Guardian
David James Smith, The Sunday Times
Amy Turner, The Sunday Times
Feature Writer of the Year – POPULAR
Paul Bracchi, Daily Mail
Martin Fricker, Daily Mirror
Oliver Harvey, The Sun
David Jones, Daily Mail
Ross Wynne-Jones, Daily Mirror
Interviewer of the Year – BROADSHEET
Lynn Barber, The Sunday Times Magazine
Robert Chalmers, The Independent on Sunday
Camilla Long, The Sunday Times
Deborah Ross, The Independent
Rachel Sylvester and Alice Thomson, The Times
Interviewer of the Year – POPULAR
Jane Fryer, Daily Mail
Louise Gannon, The Mail on Sunday
Angela Levin, The Mail on Sunday
Beth Neil, Fabulous
Melissa Thompson, Daily Mirror
Columnist of the Year – BROADSHEET
Daniel Finkelstein, The Times
Liz Jones, Mail on Sunday
Caitlin Moran, The Times
Peter Oborne
Melanie Reid, The Times
Columnist of the year – POPULAR
Craig Brown, Daily Mail
Sue Carroll, Daily Mirror
Richard Godwin, Evening Standard
Ephraim Hardcastle, Daily Mail
Melanie Phillips, Daily Mail
Critic of the Year
Craig Brown, The Mail on Sunday
AA Gill, The Sunday Times
Henry Hitchings, London Evening Standard
Caitlin Moran, The Times
Brian Sewell, London Evening Standard
Jim Shelley, Daily Mirror
Diarist of the Year
Atticus, The Sunday Times
Matthew Bell, The Independent on Sunday
Richard Kay, Daily Mail
Londoner’s Diary, London Evening Standard
Robert Shrimsley, Financial Times
Photographer of the Year
Chris Harris, The Times
Jack Hill, The Times
Dan Kitwood, Getty Images
Pete Nicholls, The Times
Oli Scarff, Getty Images
Sports Photographer of the Year
Shaun Boterill, Getty Images
Mike Egerton, Press Association
John Giles, Press Association
Andy Hooper, Daily Mail
Richard Pelham, The Sun
Cartoonist of the Year
Steve Bell, The Guardian
Peter Brookes, The Times
Matt Pritchett, The Daily Telegraph
Chris Riddell, The Observer
Gerald Scarfe, The Sunday Times
Campaign of the Year
Daily Mail, Stephen Lawrence
Financial Times, Care Homes
London Evening Standard, Literacy
The Sunday Telegraph, Forests
The Times, Adoption
Supplement of the Year
Culture, The Sunday Times
Fabulous, The Sun
FT Weekend Magazine, Financial Times
Observer Food Monthly, The Observer
Royal Wedding Special, The Daily Telegraph
The Times Magazine, The Times
Website of the Year
Financial Times
Mail Online
The Sunday Times
The Telegraph
Times iPad
Best of Humour Award
Peter Brookes, The Times
Craig Brown, Daily Mail
Jeremy Clarkson, The Sunday Times
Victoria Coren, The Times
Hugo Rifkind, The Times
News Reporter of the Year
Sharon Churcher, The Mail on Sunday
David Collins, Daily Mirror
Nick Davies
Paul Lewis, The Guardian
Rupert Neate, The Guardian
Andrew Norfolk, The Times
Cudlipp Award
Daily Mirror: Real Britain series
Daily Mail: Humbling of a Bank Giant
Daily Mirror: Bombardier campaign
