The newspaper also scooped four other winning trophies for Campaign of the Year, Sports News Writer of the Year, Political Journalist of the Year and Young Journalist of the Year.
Winners of major individual awards also included Mark Macaskill from The Sunday Times, who was named both Journalist of the Year and Reporter of the Year.
The Daily Record won Campaign of the Year for its coverage of the refugee crisis and the war on terror campaign #WeHaveRoom.
Commenting on the Daily Record’s Newspaper of the Year win, Chairman of the judges, Austin Lafferty said: “A year after the referendum, the Daily Record is engaged by the power brokers, has a mass readership and looks after emerging talent in the industry. The Daily Record has survived the decline of the Labour party without falling, and is transcending the Scottish political landscape as well as building an aggressive new media strategy, keen to embrace our digital future.”
Weekly Newspaper of the Year went to the Fife Free Press for the second year running.
The awards are organised by the Scottish Newspaper Society (SNS). SNS director John McLellan said: “As always, the awards demonstrate the excellence of the journalism on display every day in Scotland, confirming the role of Scottish newspapers as key agenda-setters, opinion-formers and news-breakers with the powerful combination of print, online and mobile delivery. All our finalists tonight are worthy of heart-felt congratulations.”
The full list of winners is as follows:
SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
Jeff Holmes
Featured in the Glasgow Evening Times, Scotland on Sunday and The Sunday Times
NEWS PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
Jeff Mitchell
Getty Images
CARTOONIST OF THE YEAR
Steven Camley
The Herald
YOUNG JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
Sarah Vesty
The Daily Record
WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR
Fife Free Press
ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
Matt Bendoris
The Scottish Sun
INTERVIEWER OF THE YEAR
Patricia Kane
Scottish Mail on Sunday
POLITICAL JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
David Clegg
The Daily Record
COLUMNIST OF THE YEAR
Chris Deerin
Scottish Daily Mail
FINANCIAL/BUSINESS JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
Erikka Askeland
The Press and Journal
FEATURE WRITER OF THE YEAR
Jonathan Brocklebank
Scottish Daily Mail
SPORTS FEATURE WRITER OF THE YEAR
Hugh MacDonald
The Herald
SPORTS NEWS WRITER OF THE YEAR
Keith Jackson
The Daily Record
INNOVATION OF THE YEAR
Merry Christmas Loyal Customer
The Evening Telegraph Dundee
FRONT PAGE OF THE YEAR
Mince… By the Edinburgh Evening News
JOURNALISM TEAM OF THE YEAR
The Scottish Sun for the M9 Police Call Centre Scandal
CAMPAIGN OF THE YEAR
The Daily Record for the ‘Refugee Crisis and The War on Terror’ hashtag We Have Room
SCOOP OF THE YEAR
The Sunday Mail for The Forgotten Suspect by Jim Wilson and Brendan McGinty
REPORTER OF THE YEAR
Mark Macaskill
The Sunday Times
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Bruce Waddell
JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
Mark Macaskill
The Sunday Times
NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR
The Daily Record
