UK: The Times named newspaper of the year at What The Papers Say awards
The Times has been named newspaper of the year at the What The Papers Say awards. Judges complemented the paper for "recovering from a weak relaunch to become a very confident paper which was now very strong across a range of categories - journalists, feature writers, stories and scoops."
The Times also won awards for cartoonist of the year and foreign correspondent of the year for the work of Peter Brookes and Richard Lloyd Parry respectively.
The Guardian's editor Alan Rusbridger was honoured with the judges' award, they descibed him as "an outstanding editor who'd had an outstanding year." The judges also praised Rusbridger for his management of the paper's format re-design. The paper's website Guardian Unlimited was commended, for "setting the standard for online newspapers."
The Gurdian's former editor Peter Preston was presented with a lifetime achievement award and Dan Chung of the paper was named photographer of the year for the second year running.
Boris Johnson was honoured as columnist of the year for his writing in the Daily Telegraph, his "clever, funny style, strong persona and clear voice" were cited.
For more details of all winners see here.
Source: Guardian Media
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