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PA 25
Mar 99 2:47 GMT S4606 |
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By
Padraic Flanagan, PA News
THE
GUARDIAN TAKES TWO TOP NEWSPAPER AWARDS
The
Guardian was named Newspaper of the Year in a
triumphant night at the British Press Awards.
The
newspaper also won the Scoop of the Year award for an
investigation into a faked Carlton Television drugs
documentary, and its financial editor Alex Brummer
took the Financial Journalist of the Year prize.
Mazher Mahmood of the News of the World won Reporter
of the Year for his expose of two directors of
Newcastle United Football Club. In a new category,
BBC News Online took the award for the best internet
news service.
The
full list of winners from the Press Gazette British
Press Awards at London's Hilton Hotel last night
were:
::
Newspaper of the Year - The Guardian
::
Sports Reporter of the Year -- Michael Calvin, Mail
on Sunday
::
Specialist Reporter of the Year -- Brian Deer, Sunday
Times
::
Foreign Reporter of the Year -- John Lichfield,
Independent on Sunday
::
Reporter of the Year -- Mazher Mahmood, News of the
World
::
Critic of the Year -- Charles Spencer, Daily
Telegraph
::
Feature Writer of the Year -- Deborah Ross,
Independent
::
Columnist of the Year -- Rebecca Tyrrel, Sunday
Telegraph
::
Financial Journalist of the Year -- Alex Brummer, The
Guardian
::
Business Journalist of the Year -- Neil Bennett,
Sunday Telegraph
::
Cartoonist of the Year -- Mac Pritchett, The Daily
Mail
::
Sports Photographer of the Year -- Ian Rutherford,
The Scotsman
::
Photographer of the Year -- Jeremy Selwyn, Evening
Standard
::
Scoop of the Year -- Michael Sean Gillard and Laurie
Flynn, The Guardian
::
Team Reporters of the Year -- The Mirror
::
Online Service of the Year -- BBC News Online
::
Supplement of the Year -- Megat, The Times
::
Young Journalist of the Year -- Burhan Wazir, The
Observer
::
Press Gazette Gold Award -- David Chipp, former Press
Association editor, for services to journalism.
[See
how The Sunday Times covered Brian Deer's
award]
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