The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)
Courier and Evening Telegraph shortlisted for 11 press awards
The Courier and the Evening Telegraph have been shortlisted for 11 Scottish Press Awards.
This year’s winners – for work published in 2021 – will be announced in September.
The DC Thomson titles are in the running for a Front Page of the Year, for The Courier’s ‘Don’t turn your back on drugs, Nicola’ splash, published on May 10 last year.
The Courier and Evening Telegraph website is also shortlisted for the News Website of the Year award.
Investigative journalists Dale Haslam and Sean O’Neil are nominated for the Local/Weekly Reporter of the Year awards for work on topics like human trafficking.
Columnist Murray Chalmers has a chance of being named Food and Drink Writer of the Year, and Stephen Eighteen has been shortlisted for Interviewer of the Year.
He said: “It is only because of DC Thomson’s investment in high-quality journalism that I have been nominated.
“In the past 15 months the company has gifted me the freedom to express myself creatively.”
Michael Alexander has also been nominated, for Local/Weekly Feature Writer of the Year.
Courier politics podcast The Stooshie and sports podcast Talking Football – both edited by Chris Phin – are shortlisted for Podcast of the Year.
DC Thomson photographer Mhairi Edwards has been nominated for Photographer of the Year, and the data team behind a project to detail everyone from Dundee who died in the First World War is on the shortlist for Journalism Team of the Year.
David Clegg, editor of The Courier, said: “Our journalists, specialist writers and photographers have constantly pushed the envelope to ensure we are delivering world class journalism which informs and entertains while holding those who wield power to account.”
He added: “The Courier has always provided a voice to the people of Tayside and Fife and these award nominations demonstrate once again that we continue to make that voice heard.”