{"id":4596,"date":"2012-03-21T17:13:30","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T16:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uk.cision.com\/?p=4596"},"modified":"2021-12-08T17:43:54","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T16:43:54","slug":"the-press-awards-2011-winners-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/the-press-awards-2011-winners-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"The Press Awards 2011: Winners Announced…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Honouring the finest contributions to newspaper journalism in 2011, last night saw the luxurious London Lancaster Hotel host the \u2018The Press Awards<\/a>\u2019. Organised by the Society of Editors<\/a> in association with the Journalists\u2019 Charity and the Newspaper Publishers\u2019 Association, the event is proclaimed as one of the most prestigious in the industry\u2019s calendar. The awards, previously known as the \u2018British Press Awards\u2019 was divided into over 30 categories giving recognition to reporters, feature writers, columnists and cartoonists to name but a few.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s big winner was The Daily Mail<\/a>, leaving with eight awards including Newspaper of the Year, Website of the\u00a0Year and the Cudlipp Award for outstanding Journalism. Ruth Sherlock of the Daily Telegraph<\/a> won\u00a0 Young Journalist of the Year and has received a lot of praise on twitter, including a \u2018congrats\u2019 from fellow nominee Laurie Penny of The Independent who is \u2018still completely thrilled to have been nominated.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Other winners included the witty Peter Brookes of the Times<\/a> who picked up Cartoonist of the Year, the Guardian<\/a> which went away with Scoop of the Year for its Milly Dowler phone hacking story and The Times which won Supplement of the Year for The Magazine.<\/p>\n

Veteran reporter Marie Colvin of the Sunday Times was also mentioned as tributes were paid following her untimely death in Syria last month. Here, a true representation of the dedication seen within the industry was expressed through the remembrance of this fearless and passionate journalist.<\/p>\n

Congratulations must also be given to Alexander Lebedev’s i which was nominated for the Newspaper of the Year award having only been in circulation since 2011.<\/p>\n

Executive director of the Society of Editors, Bob Satchwell said: “Congratulations to all\u00a0the winners, the awards showed the enduring quality of British journalism and\u00a0particularly marked the Daily Mail’s year because of the culmination of a 14 year sustained campaign to bring the killers of Stephen Lawrence to justice.”<\/p>\n

A full list of this year\u2019s winners can be found HERE<\/a> and if you missed any of the event, highlights can be viewed HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Editorial information on the winners, along with thousands of other media contacts and websites,\u00a0can be found in our\u00a0CisionPoint<\/a>\u00a0media database<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Honouring the finest contributions to newspaper journalism in 2011, last night saw the luxurious London Lancaster Hotel host the \u2018The Press Awards\u2019. Organised by the Society of Editors in association with the Journalists\u2019 Charity and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":322,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,5741],"tags":[3846,3847,3848,3849,3851,2884,3844,3845],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4596"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137498,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4596\/revisions\/137498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}