The MoS is crowned Sunday newspaper of the year...AGAIN
THE Mail on Sunday has been named 2017 Sunday Newspaper of the Year – a remarkable fifth such triumph in just six years. After scooping the award in 2012, 2013 and 2014, we picked up the Sunday prize once again in the prestigious London Press Club awards at Stationers’ Hall last week.
That adds to our victory – almost unprecedented for a Sunday paper – in the Society of Editors’ 2015 Newspaper of the Year award.
Last week’s judges said the paper ‘was admired for consistently breaking important exclusives that sent daily papers scurrying to follow them and production of a package that covers the entire weekend waterfront for its readers.
‘The award should go to a paper that deserved to win – and not for the first time – for punching its weight every weekend with popular journalistic excellence that brought commercial success.’
The trophy was handed to Geordie Greig, who has edited the newspaper since 2012. He said: ‘Sunday journalism thrives and does make a difference.’
City Editor Ruth Sunderland was highly commended as Business Journalist of the Year. The judges praised her ‘astute comment columns on business, investment and economics’. Recent major Mail on Sunday exclusives have included reports revealing: The aid charity sex scandal, specifically that Brendan Cox, widower of murdered MP Jo Cox, was a sex pest; The racism of Ukip leader Henry Bolton’s girlfriend Jo Marney, leading to his downfall; That Minister Mark Garnier sent his personal assistant to buy sex toys. We have also successfully campaigned to establish a special helpline for members of the Armed Forces suffering mental health issues; to fight wasteful foreign aid spending; to force a Government crackdown on the fake holiday sickness racket; and to raise the alarm over flawed sexcrime prosecutions.
Many of our biggest stories were broken by Political Editor Simon Walters, the current Political Journalist of the Year in the Society of Editors’ awards. And Sundays wouldn’t be the same without our brilliant columnists Peter Hitchens, Piers Morgan, Liz Jones, Craig Brown and Rachel Johnson.
It’s also been a great year for our sports team. Chief Sports Writer, Oliver Holt, won Commentator of the Year at the Editorial Intelligence Awards. And at the Sports Journalist of the Year Awards, the team were nominated for an incredible 17 accolades.
This year we launched a new pullout, Life, featuring Dr Michael Mosley’s health advice plus family columns from Penny Lancaster, Jo Wood and Marina Fogle. And Event magazine features big names including Rod Stewart, Scarlett Johansson and Nicole Kidman.
You magazine, being revitalised under new editor Jo Elvin, was recently highly commended as Weekly Supplement of the Year in the Newsawards.
But the judges most important to us are you, the readers, who have built our market share of all national Sunday newspapers sold to a record 22 per cent.
True Success on Sunday!