Daily Mail

Mail’s 21 nomination­s for Press Oscars

- By Katherine Rushton Media and Technology Editor

THE Daily Mail has secured 1 nomination­s in the prestigiou­s annual Press Awards – considered the Oscars of the journalism world – including one for Newspaper of the Year.

Jan Moir, Chrissy Iley and Rebecca Hardy are all in the running for Interviewe­r of the Year, while Sarah Vine and Dominic Lawson have both been nominated as Columnist of the Year.

Judges have also shortliste­d the Mail’s Stop The Gambling Predators campaign for the prestigiou­s Cudlipp Award. Richard Pendlebury is nominated as Feature Writer of the Year, while Jonathan Pugh has been shortliste­d as Cartoonist of the Year. Graham Chadwick and Andy Hooper are both in the running for Sports Photograph­er of the Year, while Matt Lawton has been shortliste­d twice – as Sports Journalist of the Year and for Sports News Story of the Year.

Science Correspond­ent Victoria Allen and Investigat­ions Editor Tom Kelly are also double nominees – as Science Journalist­s of the Year, and for Investigat­ion of the Year. Defence and Security Editor Larisa Brown is nominated as Foreign Reporter of the Year, and Health Editor Sophie Borland is in the running for Health Journalist of the Year. Investigat­ions Reporter Tom Payne has been shortliste­d as Young Journalist of the Year, while Investigat­ions Reporter Sian Boyle has secured a nomination as News Reporter of the Year.

The Daily Mail is also in the running for Supplement of the Year for its hugely popular Femail section, and for Front Page of the Year – after Emine Sinmaz revealed to the world an image of Jeremy Corbyn holding a wreath feet from the graves of members of the terror group behind the Munich massacre.

Our sister paper, The Mail on Sunday, received 19 nomination­s.

The winners of the Society of Editors’ National Press Awards for 018 will be announced at a ceremony on April .

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