The Dundee-based title won the Newspaper of the Year award and its lead reporter, Gordon Blackstock, was awarded Journalist of the Year, Reporter of the Year, Front Page of the Year and Scoop of the Year for his breaking story of the hundreds of Smyllum Park orphans buried in mass graves.
Dani Garavelli from Scotland on Sunday was awarded the Nicola Barry prize, a new accolade introduced this year by the Scottish Press Awards in honour of the journalist who died after a long illness. The award was created for women journalists with the aim of encouraging campaigning journalism, which Nicola Barry, the award-winning columnist and feature writer, was known for during her career.
Other awards announced included the Lifetime Achievement Award, which was awarded to Tom Shields, The Sunday Mail won Journalism Team of the Year, and The Courier was awarded Campaign of the Year for its Frank’s Law initiative.
The full list of winners from the second part of the evening is as follows:
YOUNG JOURNALIST
Gurpreet Narwan, The Times
WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
East Lothian Courier
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT JOURNALIST
Peter Ross, The Herald
INTERVIEWER
Kenny Farquharson, The Times
POLITICAL JOURNALIST
David Clegg, Daily Record
COLUMNIST
Kenny Farquharson, The Times
SPORTS COLUMNIST
Gary Keown, Scottish Mail on Sunday
FINANCIAL/BUSINESS JOURNALIST
Greig Cameron, The Times
FEATURE WRITER
Peter Ross, The Guardian
SPORTS FEATURE WRITER
Aidan Smith, The Scotsman
SPORTS NEWS WRITER
Sean Wallace, Aberdeen Evening Express
NEWS PHOTOGRAPHER
Wattie Cheung, Freelance
SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHER
Jane Barlow, Press Association
OUTSTANDING DIGITAL JOURNALIST
Billy Briggs, The Ferret
FRONT PAGE
“Hundreds of Orphans”, The Sunday Post
DIGITAL TEAM
dailyrecord.co.uk, Daily Record
JOURNALISM TEAM
Emma Caldwell: The Fight for Justice, Sunday Mail
CAMPAIGN
Franks Law, The Courier
SCOOP
Gordon Blackstock, The Sunday Post
REPORTER
Gordon Blackstock, The Sunday Post
NICOLA BARRY AWARD
Dani Garavelli, Scotland on Sunday
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Tom Shields
JOURNALIST
Gordon Blackstock, The Sunday Post
NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR
The Sunday Post
