The Awards will be presented at the London Press Club Awards Lunch on Tuesday 1 May at Stationers’ Hall, London. Broadcaster and author June Sarpong will be the compere.
Last year the Times and Sunday Times were the winners of Daily Newspaper and Sunday Newspaper of the Year. Print Journalist of the Year was Ian Hislop.
At last year’s Awards, the Queen was awarded Londoner of the Year in recognition of her special anniversary year. The Duke of York received the Award on her behalf. Previous recipients have included Lord Coe for successfully bringing together the London Olympics and Lord Lloyd-Webber for his services to the West End and the Arts in London schools.
This year’s Londoner of the Year and the Edgar Wallace Award for outstanding writing or reporting of the highest quality will be announced at the Awards.
The shortlist details for the Awards categories are:
BUSINESS JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
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Iain Dey, The Sunday Times
Martin Lewis, moneysavingexpert.com
Ruth Sunderland, Mail on Sunday
BROADCAST JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
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Katya Adler, BBC Europe editor
Kay Burley, Sky News
Laura Kuenssberg, political editor, BBC News
DIGITAL JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
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Heidi Blake, buzzfeed.com
Matt Chorley, editor, Times Red Box
Jonathan Liew, chief sports writer, The Independent
PRINT JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
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Matthew D’Ancona, columnist, The Guardian, Evening Standard
Tim Shipman, political editor, The Sunday Times
Janice Turner, The Times
SCOOP OF THE YEAR
The Sun: ‘Pestminster – Westminster sex pests’, Harry Cole and Tom Newton Dunn
Daily Telegraph: Prince Harry interview, Bryony Gordon
The Times: ‘Facebook child porn’, Alexi Mostrous
DAILY NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR
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Daily Mail
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The Times
SUNDAY NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR
Mail on Sunday
Sunday Mirror
The Sunday Times
