The Financial Times was named newspaper of the year at last night's British Press Awards and the Sun's Tom Newton Dunn was among the other big winners, collecting four prizes.
Paul Dacre, the Daily Mail editor, was given the special award by events organiser Press Gazette, while London Evening Standard investigative reporter Andrew Gilligan was named journalist of the year.
Dacre and Gilligan's awards were presented by the Conservative leader, David Cameron, last night's guest speaker.
Cameron praised the 800 journalists gathered at the event for respecting the news blackout of Prince Harry's deployment to Afghanistan, saying it showed a free press acting responsibly. "I thought that was something everyone in this room can be incredibly proud of," he said.
The Sun won more awards than any other paper, taking home four - two individual prizes for Newton Dunn, and two more for its Help for Heroes campaign, in which he was a key player. The FT won three awards, as did the Guardian, including best newspaper website.
As well as the top prize of newspaper of the year, the FT's Philip Stevens was named political journalist of the year while Gillian Tett won business and finance journalist of the year.
The Sun's defence editor, Tom Newton Dunn, went to the stage four times. He won scoop of the year for his story on the friendly fire killing of corporal Matty Hull and also won reporter of the year.
Newton Dunn also collected the Sun's two other prizes, the Cudlipp award for excellence in popular journalism and campaign of the year, both for its Help for Heroes series.
Gilligan won journalist of the year for his series of articles investigating misuse of public funds at the London Development Agency. He beat Nick Davies of the Guardian, Sun editor Rebekah Wade, Christina Lamb of the Sunday Times and the late Bill Deedes of the Daily Telegraph.
At the end of the night, the Press Gazette special award, presented only occasionally, was given to Dacre for his 18-year career as editor first at the Evening Standard and later at the Daily Mail and for overseeing the launch of Metro as editor-in-chief of Associated Newspapers.
The Guardian won website of the year, while Ghaith Abdul-Ahad won foreign reporter of the year and Sean Smith won the new award, digital journalist of the year.
For the first time, the British Press Awards also honoured journalists outside the UK, with the inaugural international journalist of the year award.
This went to Iranian journalist Emadeddin Baghi, who has been imprisoned by the state for a second time. Baghi was unable to attend last night's BPA ceremony at London's Grosvenor House hotel and a representative from Amnesty International collected his award.
The Sunday Mirror picked up two awards, with Kate Mansey named young journalist of the year and Sean Hamilton winning in the showbusiness reporter category for scoops including Led Zeppelin reforming.
Associated Newspapers cleaned up in the photography categories, with Andy Hooper of the Daily Mail winning sports photographer of the year, and Jeremy Selwyn of the London Evening Standard landing photographer of the year.
The Mail and Evening Standard's Associated stablemate, the Mail on Sunday, won the supplement of the year, which was awarded jointly to its Live and You magazines.
Interviewer of the year went to freelance journalist Chrissy Iley for her work on both the Observer and Sunday Times magazines. Charles Spencer of the Daily Telegraph won critic of the year.
The sports journalist of the year was Martin Samuel of the Times, while AA Gill of the Sunday Times was named feature writer of the year, which he also won in 2005. Matthew Norman of the Independent won the hotly contested columnist of the year category.
Matt Pritchett won cartoonist of the year for his work on the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph.
As Gilligan took to the stage, event host Jon Snow said the judges had awarded him the prize for his relentless investigations and that the reporter was "back in the news for all the right reasons".
Gilligan paid tribute to the Evening Standard, which hired him after he was forced to leave the BBC in the wake of the Hutton report. He said he felt the award vindicated his work.
The judges described Dacre as "a unique journalist and editor who translates conviction, passion and vast experience into enduring success for his newspapers".
"I would just like to thank all the wonderful, selfless, brilliant journalists I have worked with on the Mail past and present," Dacre said. "And I would also like to thank the Rothermeres for giving editors that priceless gift - the freedom to edit."
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Thursday, April 10, 2008
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