Record 34 award nominations for your Daily Mail
IN these exceptional times, you already know the Daily Mail is the best paper to keep you informed and entertained.
Now, with more nominations at the annual Press Awards than any other title, it’s confirmed.
Judges for the awards – considered the Oscars of journalism – have shortlisted the Daily Mail a record 34 times across a staggering 24 categories, including for the most prestigious prize, Daily Newspaper of the Year, which the paper won for an unprecedented eighth time last year.
In a glittering endorsement of the Mail’s campaigning power, Mail Force – the paper’s groundbreaking intervention in the PPE crisis, which
‘Relentless campaigning’
has already been honoured with the Public Service Award at the British Journalism Awards – led the way with nominations for two top awards – the Cudlipp Award and Campaign of the Year.
Let Them Hold Hands – the Mail’s relentless drive to end the cruel ban on care home visits to the UK’s 411,000 care home residents – has been nominated for Campaign of the Year as well as Front Page of the Year.
The Mail’s peerless Jan Moir is up for two of the biggest awards, Columnist of the Year (Pop) and Interviewer of the Year (Pop). If she takes the Interviewer prize, it will be an unprecedented third win in a row. The paper also dominated the Feature Writer (Pop) category, with Antonia Hoyle, Barbara Davies, Tanith Carey and sketchwriter Henry Deedes all on the shortlist.
The Mail’s groundbreaking news coverage was recognised with a host of important nominations in the some of the most prestigious categories.
The agenda-setting investigation into Martin Bashir’s Panorama interview with Princess Diana, which triggered an inquiry, is up for both Scoop of the Year and Investigation of the Year, while Stephen Wright – highly commended last year
– has again made the News Reporter of the Year shortlist following a series of bombshell exclusives about Prince Andrew and Virginia Roberts.
The excellence of the Daily Mail’s sports pages – recently recognised by judges at the British Sports Journalism Awards – was also reflected.
Sportsmail’s hard-hitting campaign to tackle dementia in football was one of two Mail entries to be nominated for
Sports News Story of the Year, while four-time winner Andy Hooper is again up for Sports Photographer of the Year.
The brilliance of the Mail’s unbeatable sections was also noted, with Escape bagging two nominations and Femail Magazine in the running for Supplement of the Year.
The paper’s hilarious pocket cartoonist Jonathan Pugh again made the shortlist for Cartoonist of the Year while the groundbreaking True Crime Podcast was one of two Mail+ podcasts picked out for an award.
The quality of our sister paper The Mail on Sunday was recognised with 21 nominations including Magazine of the Year and Sunday Newspaper of the Year.
Winners of the 2020 Society of Editors’ National Press Awards will be announced at a virtual ceremony on March 31.