Some local newspapers and journalists appear in the shortlists for the Society of Editors’ Regional Press Awards that celebrate the best of UK regional newspaper journalism in 2011.
Good to see the local weekly The Ulster Herald making the list alongside Belfast Telegraph, Irish News and Sunday Life success. Given the entrance fee, some local publications may chose not to nominate. However, with only five names in each shortlist, Northern Ireland journalists and titles clearly dominate some of the categories and look to be punching above their weight. [Click through the award category names to see the stories that accompanied each nomination.]
- Ciaran Barnes – Sunday Life
- Seanin Graham – Irish News
- John McGurk – Sunday Life
Daily/Sunday Sports Journalist of the Year
- Steven Beacom – Belfast Telegraph
Daily/Sunday Reporter of the Year
- Bimpe Archer – Irish News
- Ciaran Barnes – Sunday Life
- John McGurk – Sunday Life
- Belfasttelegraph.co.uk – Belfast Telegraph
- Weekend – Belfast Telegraph
- Carried on a Sea of Unity – Belfast Telegraph
- Bimpe Archer – Irish News
- Fighting Censorship by Killers – Sunday Life
- The Ulster Herald
- Sunday Life
- Belfast Telegraph
The awards ceremony takes place at lunchtime on 25 May in London’s Savoy Place.
Update – link to post with details about local winners.
Alan Meban. Tweets as @alaninbelfast. Blogs about cinema and theatre over at Alan in Belfast. A freelancer who writes about, reports from, live-tweets and live-streams civic, academic and political events and conferences. He delivers social media training/coaching; produces podcasts and radio programmes; is a FactCheckNI director; a member of Ofcom’s Advisory Committee for Northern Ireland; and a member of the Corrymeela Community.
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