The Mail on Sunday: officially the best Sunday paper (again!)
THE Mail on Sunday has triumphed at the prestigious London Press Club Awards, where it was named Sunday Newspaper of the Year for the second year running.
The judges said they were particularly impressed by ‘an apparently inexhaustible succession of scoops and campaigns, [and] top-class sports writing’ as well as the ‘must-see material that makes its accompanying magazines such a powerful add-on’.
The paper was shortlisted for Scoop of the Year for its exposé of the drugtaking lifestyle of Co-op Bank chief and Methodist minister Paul Flowers. The judges said the story put into play a newspaper ball that kept rolling and became a talking point. The story won Scoop of the Year at the Society of Editors’ Press Awards last month.
The London Press Club ceremony also saw Mail on Sunday and Daily Mail writer Ian Birrell win the coveted Edgar Wallace Award for writing and reporting of the highest quality.
The judges praised Birrell for his vivid, in-depth reporting from the Middle East, a refugee camp in Kenya, and a disturbing mass rally in North Korea, as well as a series of memorably dramatic dispatches from Ukraine.
The Mail on Sunday’s circulation in April was 1,605,000, up 10,000 copies from the previous month. Our market share is 21.8 per cent – up 0.6 per cent year on year.
And with our cover price kept at £1.50 since 2007, the paper and its two glossy magazines – You and Event – provide unbeatable value: Quality AND Success on Sunday.
The London Evening Standard won the title Daily Newspaper of the Year at last week’s ceremony at the Stationers’ and Newspaper Makers’ Hall.