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British Press Awards 2006

The British Press Awards is an annual ceremony that has celebrated the best of British journalism since the 1970s. A financially lucrative part of the Press Gazette's business,{{cite news| url=http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1503387,00.html | work=The Guardian | location=London | title=And the Press Gazette title goes to ... Piers Morgan | first=Jane | last=Martinson | date=2005-06-10 | access-date=2010-04-27}} they have been described as "the Oscars of British journalism", or less flatteringly, "The Hackademy Awards".[https://archive.today/20120720221224/http://www.bjr.org.uk/data/2005/no1_editorial.htm A matter of honours, Editorial - British Journalism Review Vol. 16, No. 1, 2005]

The British Press Awards 2006 were held at The Dorchester, Park Lane, London, on Monday 20 March 2006. Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow hosted the revamped ceremony with just 450 guests attending compared with more than 900 in previous years. There were 21 categories with a single overall sponsor rather than the 28 categories with individual sponsors of 2005.[https://web.archive.org/web/20070303135843/http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/article/020306/jon_snow_to_host_allnew_british_press_awards Jon Snow to host all-new British Press Awards - Press Gazette, 2 March 2006]

The judging process has two stages with Charles Wilson as Chairman of the Judges. The first stage chooses five entries (or six in case of a tie for fifth place) for the shortlists of each category and the second stage determines the winners. The Supplement of the Year, Cartoonist of the Year and Front Page of the Year categories are judged by independent panels of experts. Newspaper of the Year is now judged on an academy-style voting system. The judging forum comprises 80 senior staff journalists and a Grand Jury of 20 non-affiliated senior media executives representing each of the national newspaper groups.[http://www.britishpressawards.com/bpa.html Journalism news and jobs for journalists - Press Gazette] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060215012229/http://www.britishpressawards.com/bpa.html |date=February 15, 2006 }}

Controversy leading up to the 2006 awards

Soon after the 2005 awards, ten editors of major newspapers released a joint statement announcing their boycott because of the 'decline in conduct and prestige'. The statement read, "The editors of The Guardian, The Observer, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph, The Independent, the Independent on Sunday, the Daily Express, the Sunday Express, the Daily Mail, and The Mail on Sunday believe the organisation of these awards brings little credit to the industry or to the newspapers who win them".[http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/story1307.shtml Geldof triggers boycott of British Press Awards] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070403164302/http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/story1307.shtml |date=April 3, 2007 }} The New York Times{{'}}s London correspondent wrote, "last night's ceremony — a mind-numbing parade of awards in 28 categories — was not a mutually respectful celebration of the British newspaper industry fuelled by camaraderie and bonhomie. It was more like a soccer match attended by a club of misanthropic inebriates".[http://www.slate.com/id/2114852/entry/2114932/#ContinueArticle Many approaches to the same issue. - By Sarah Lyall - Slate Magazine] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110914035815/http://www.slate.com/id/2114852/entry/2114932/#ContinueArticle |date=September 14, 2011 }} Piers Morgan, unhappy about losing the Hugh Cudlipp Award to The Sun, launched “The REAL Newspaper of the Year Awards”, inviting Mirror readers to phone in their choice.

Still choosing to boycott the 2006 event were Associated Newspapers (part of Daily Mail and General Trust plc), Telegraph Group (part of Press Holdings Limited) and Express Newspapers (part of Northern & Shell). Their titles include The Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday, the Daily Express and the Sunday Express, the Daily Star, the London Evening Standard and Metro, though the Express Group's boycott started when it was bought by Richard Desmond in 2000.[https://web.archive.org/web/20060218172357/http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/article/260106/and_the_losers_are_journalists_and_the_industry And the losers are… journalists and the industry - Press Gazette, 26 January 2006]

One of the concerns is over the new owners of Press Gazette, the organisation behind the awards, Piers Morgan and Matthew Freud. The neutrality of Freud has been questioned given his marriage to Rupert Murdoch's daughter and his PR business's deals with News International.[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2006/01/24/ccslade24.xml&menuId=242&sSheet=/money/2006/01/24/ixcoms.html Big titles boycott 'Morgan's organ' press awards - Telegraph] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070313100344/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fmoney%2F2006%2F01%2F24%2Fccslade24.xml&menuId=242&sSheet=%2Fmoney%2F2006%2F01%2F24%2Fixcoms.html |date=March 13, 2007 }} However, to reconcile his critics, Matthew Freud has appointed a new Chairman of the Judges, Charles Wilson, and implemented changes to the judging process to promote transparency and fairness. Now there are only 21 awards, none of which are privately sponsored, and the ceremony is earlier in the evening so as to encourage sobriety. Simon Kelner, editor of The Independent, said that "a lot of the concerns I had with the organisation of the awards have been addressed. Anyway, there's not a viable alternative".{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2006/01/24/ccslade24.xml&menuId=242&sSheet=/money/2006/01/24/ixcoms.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070313100344/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2006/01/24/ccslade24.xml&menuId=242&sSheet=/money/2006/01/24/ixcoms.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=2007-03-13 | work=The Daily Telegraph | location=London | title=Big titles boycott 'Morgan's organ' press awards | first=Roy | last=Greenslade | date=2006-01-24 | access-date=2010-04-27}}

Simon Lewis, corporate affairs director at Vodafone, the new sponsor, says, "We are delighted to be able to work with Press Gazette to celebrate the best of British journalism," despite the fact that his brother Will Lewis, deputy editor of The Daily Telegraph, is boycotting the awards.{{cite news| url=http://media.guardian.co.uk/diary/story/0,,1718900,00.html | work=The Guardian | location=London | title=March 6-10 2006 | date=2006-03-10 | access-date=2010-04-27}}

Category shortlists

The following lists the shortlists published February 26, 2006.{{cite web | url = http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=33385§ioncode=1 | title = NoW in running to defend Press Awards title | date = February 26, 2006 | publisher = Press Gazette | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120222033341/http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=33385§ioncode=1 | archive-date = February 22, 2012 }}

(Winner in bold)

(Blue numbered boxes to the right of the nominations contain external links to relevant web pages)

= National Newspaper of the Year =

  • The Guardian
  • The Independent
  • News of the World{{cite news| url=http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,1712698,00.html | work=The Guardian | location=London | title=Scoops spur Coulson on to a red-top renaissance | first=James | last=Robinson | date=2006-02-19 | access-date=2010-04-27}}{{cite news | url=http://news.independent.co.uk/media/article346268.ece | work=The Independent | location=London | title=How the 'Screws' screwed its rivals | first=Tim | last=Luckhurst | date=2006-02-19 | access-date=2010-04-27 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071120141114/http://news.independent.co.uk/media/article346268.ece | archive-date=2007-11-20 }}
  • The Observer
  • The Times

= Reporter of the Year =

= Foreign Reporter of the Year =

= Scoop of the Year =

  • Francis Elliott (Independent on Sunday) "Blunkett broke Rules" [https://web.archive.org/web/20060521185517/http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article323341.ece Revealed: Blunkett broke rules on job with DNA firm - Independent on Sunday, 30 October 2005]
  • Jamie Pyatt (The Sun) "Harry the Nazi" {{Cite web|url=https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/british-press-awards-past-winners/|title = British Press Awards: Past winners}}
  • Robert Jobson (Freelance/Evening Standard) "Charles & Camilla to wed" [https://www.flickr.com/photos/lmg/6723890/in/set-69593/ Exclusive: Charles and Camilla to Wed | Flickr - Photo Sharing!] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324111000/https://www.flickr.com/photos/lmg/6723890/in/set-69593/ |date=March 24, 2012 }}
  • Stephen Moyes (Daily Mirror) "Cocaine Kate" [https://archive.today/20120804153049/http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16727794&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=scoop-of-the-year--name_page.html We'Re Nominated For Scoop Of The Year - Mirror.Co.Uk]
  • Michael Smith (The Sunday Times) "Blair - War leak" http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/D9CB82B4-64CE-446C-8386-D7EA0731DEB2.htm{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

= Columnist of the Year =

= Political Journalist of the Year =

= Feature Writer of the Year =

= Interviewer of the Year =

  • Lynn Barber (The Observer) [http://browse.guardian.co.uk/search?search=Lynn+Barber&lDim=0&Nso=1&N=4294965911&Ns=P_PublicationDate guardian.co.uk | Search | Lynn Barber]{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
  • Emma Brockes (The Guardian) [http://browse.guardian.co.uk/search?search=Emma+Brockes&lDim=0&Nso=1&N=4294963545&Ns=P_PublicationDate guardian.co.uk | Search | Emma Brockes]{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
  • Robert Chalmers (Independent on Sunday)
  • Rachel Cooke (The Observer) [http://browse.guardian.co.uk/search?search=Rachel+Cooke&lDim=0&Nso=1&N=4294963583&Ns=P_PublicationDate guardian.co.uk | Search | Rachel Cooke]{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
  • Deborah Ross (The Independent){{cite web|author=Steve Busfield |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/mar/20/pressandpublishing1 |title=British Press Awards as they happened ... |work=The Guardian |date=20 March 2006 |access-date=2014-01-10}}
  • Janice Turner (The Times)

= Specialist Writer of the Year =

= Critic of the Year =

= Sports Journalist of the Year =

= Young Journalist of the Year =

= Team of the Year =

  • The Art Newspaper (Sheikh Saud - biggest art collector)[http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article01.asp?id=192 The Art Newspaper] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204050536/http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article01.asp?id=192 |date=February 4, 2012 }}
  • Daily Mirror (7/7 team)
  • The Guardian (Attack on London)
  • The Independent (7/7 team)
  • The Sun (7/7 team)
  • The Sunday Times (Nature's time bomb - Asian tsunami)

= Business & Finance Journalist of the Year =

= Supplement of the Year =

= Front Page of the Year =

= Photographer of the Year =

= Sports Photographer of the Year =

= Cartoonist of the Year =

= Showbusiness Writer of the Year =

= The Hugh Cudlipp Award =

The following shortlist for the Cudlipp Award was later.{{cite web | url = http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=33431§ioncode=1 | title = Jon Snow to host all-new British Press Awards | date = March 3, 2006 | publisher = Press Gazette | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120222033350/http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=33431§ioncode=1 | archive-date = February 22, 2012 }}

  • Making Poverty History - A Year in Rwanda (Daily Mirror)[https://www.mirror.co.uk/search.cfm?searchscope=94762&query=Make%20Poverty%20History%20Rwanda&query_type=2&displayAll=true&startrow=11&maxtocount=100 Mirror.co.uk]{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}[https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16526151&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=village-of-hope--a-year-in-rwanda--name_page.html Village Of Hope: A Year In Rwanda - Mirror.Co.Uk] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060219062034/http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid%3D16526151%26method%3Dfull%26siteid%3D94762%26headline%3Dvillage-of-hope--a-year-in-rwanda--name_page.html |date=February 19, 2006 }}
  • Charles & Camilla to Wed (Evening Standard)[https://www.flickr.com/photos/lmg/6723890/in/set-69593/ Exclusive: Charles and Camilla to Wed sur Flickr : partage de photos !] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324111000/https://www.flickr.com/photos/lmg/6723890/in/set-69593/ |date=March 24, 2012 }}
  • London Bombings (News of the World)[http://www.theage.com.au/news/war-on-terror/british-man-arrested-for-london-bombings/2005/10/24/1130006025605.html British man arrested for London bombings - War on Terror - Features - In Depth] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120406074442/http://www.theage.com.au/news/war-on-terror/british-man-arrested-for-london-bombings/2005/10/24/1130006025605.html |date=April 6, 2012 }}
  • What about the Victims? (News of the World) {{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4363040.stm | work=BBC News | title=Bomb victims in payouts protest | date=2005-10-21 | access-date=2010-04-27}}{{cite news| url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,18389-1857788,00.html | archive-url=https://archive.today/20110604025447/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,18389-1857788,00.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=June 4, 2011 | work=The Times | location=London | title=A city in black and white | date=2005-11-03 | access-date=2010-04-27 | first=Urban | last=Fox}}
  • Animal Cruelty (The Sun)[http://justnicephotos.homestead.com/STAMPITOUT.html Join The Stamp It Out Campaign] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304035142/http://justnicephotos.homestead.com/STAMPITOUT.html |date=March 4, 2016 }}
  • One Last Chance (The Sun) [http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/Murdochs-Sun-gives-PM-one-last-chance/2005/05/04/1115092560904.html Murdoch's Sun gives PM 'one last chance' - World - theage.com.au] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314142957/http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/Murdochs-Sun-gives-PM-one-last-chance/2005/05/04/1115092560904.html |date=March 14, 2016 }}{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1714303.stm | work=BBC News | title=Rebekah Wade: Profile | date=2003-01-13 | access-date=2010-04-27}}

References

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External links

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20060215012141/http://www.britishpressawards.com/ British Press Awards website]
  • [https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/british-press-awards-past-winners/ List of past winners]

Category:The Press Awards

Category:2006 awards in the United Kingdom