Success for Mail Newspapers at the British Press Awards
Mail Newspapers enjoyed massive success at the 2009 British Press Awards, winning nine awards in total plus two commendations.
For the second year running, You magazine was named Supplement of the Year, praised for its “great writing, superb photography and excellent layout....totally unbeatable in the market.”
MoS Journalist Miles Goslett was awarded Scoop of the Year for “a big story that just got bigger”, the so-called ‘Sachsgate’ affair. According to the judges: “the winning entry outpaced its rivals by a country mile.”
Reporter of the Year was Mail on Sunday stalwart, Chris Leake, for a raft of stories that “caught the public mood and set the agenda”. The judges commented that they were “superb examples of public interest reporting at its best.”
Tom Harper was a popular winner in the Young Journalist of the Year category, described as “a story-setter in the true sense of old-fashioned reporting.”
Mail on Sunday freelance writers were also winners: Dan McDougall, a regular contributor to Live magazine, was named Foreign Reporter of the Year, praised by the judges for his “world exclusive stories with writing to match” and Philip Jacobson won Feature Writer of the Year for his “top class journalism with a compulsive, colourful writing style...impossible to stop reading.”
Sportsmail writer Ian Stafford was highly commended for producing “three of the most compelling and revealing sports interviews of the year...with quotes to die for.” Ian was also commended for his interviews at the 2009 British Sports Journalism Awards.
Our sister paper, the Daily Mail was also in the winners’ circle: Quentin Letts, lauded for being “simply the best wordsmith in British journalism” was named Political Journalist of the Year; chief crime correspondent Stephen Wright was awarded the Specialist Journalist of the Year prize; the paper won the Hugh Cudlipp Award for Stephen Wright and Richard Pendlebury’s work on the New Scotland Yard ‘race war’ story and freelancer Tanya Gold was highly commended in the Feature Writer category.
