British Press Awards

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The British Press Awards is an annual ceremony that celebrates the best of British journalism. Established in the 1970s, honours are voted on by a panel of journalists and newspaper executives. A financially lucrative part of the Press Gazette's business,[1] they have been described as "the Oscars of British journalism", or less flatteringly, "The Hackademy Awards".[2]

For 2006, the judging process had two stages with Charles Wilson as Chairman of the Judges. The first stage chose five entries for the shortlists of each category & the second stage determined the winners. The Supplement of the Year, Cartoonist of the Year and Front Page of the Year categories were judged by independent panels of experts. Newspaper of the Year were judged on an Academy-style voting system. The judging forum comprised 80 senior staff journalists and a Grand Jury of 20 non-affiliated senior media executives representing each of the national newspaper groups.[1]

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National Newspaper of the Year [edit]

Foreign Reporter of the Year [edit]

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References [edit]

  1. ^ The Guardian, 10 June 2005, And the Press Gazette title goes to ... Piers Morgan
  2. ^ The British Journalism Review (2005), A matter of honours, 16(1)

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