Ex-Scotsman editor-in-chief John McLellan – who was placed on leave by owners Johnston Press last week – collected the newspaper of the year award at last night’s Scottish Press Awards 2012.
Meanwhile the Sunday Herald’s bold decision to name Ryan Giggs as the Premiership footballer at the centre of a controversial privacy injunction last year won the paper a brace of awards for front page of the year and scoop of the year for editor Richard Walker.
The paper’s Ian Bell also won columnist of the year, while Matthew Holehouse won young reporter of the year and David Pratt won reporter of the year for their work on the Sunday title and its daily sister title the Herald.
There were no entries this year from The Scottish Sun, which instead held its own in-house awards ceremony.
The Scotsman was praised by judges for its ‘spades of debate’and they were also particularly impressed with its election coverage and its international section, which they said ‘showed real strength, covering world-wide stories with an eye to Scotland”.
Here is the full list of winners:
Sports photographer of the year
Lynne Cameron, Press Association
News photographer of the year
Wattie Cheung, freelance
Cartoonist of the year
Steven Camley, The Herald
Young journalist of the year
Matthew Holehouse, The Herald/Sunday Herald
Webiste/digital product of the year
Ewan Watt, Daily Record
Weekly newspaper of the year
The Northern Scot
Arts/entertainment journalist of the year
Aidan Smith, Scotland on Sunday
Magazine writer of the year
Peter Ross, Scotland on Sunday
Political journalist of the year
Alan Roden, Scottish Daily Mail
Columnist of the year
Ian Bell, Sunday Herald
Matthew Holehouse, The Herald/Sunday Herald
Newspaper feature writer of the year
Jonathan Brocklebank, Scottish Daily Mail
Sports feature writer of the year
Aidan Smith, The Scotsman/Scotland on Sunday
Sports news writer of the year
Keith Jackson, Daily Record
Front page of the year
Sunday Herald, Censored
Journalist team of the year
Edinburgh Evening News, Edinburgh Trams Project
Campaign of the year
Evening Times, Streets Ahead
Scoop of the year
Richard Walker, Sunday Herald, Censored – The Madness of Privacy Laws
Reporter of the year
David Pratt, The Herald/Sunday Herald
Newspaper of the year
The Scotsman
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