Wednesday 24 March 2010

Newspaper of the Year

The Daily Telegraph has picked up a string of honours including newspaper of the year at the British Press Awards after its stories on MPs' expenses.


Group editor Will Lewis was journalist of the year, Robert Winnett was top political journalist and the paper won best scoop and best special supplement. Expenses row campaigner Heather Brooke won a special award and reporter of the year went to the Guardian's Paul Lewis.

Other winners included former England cricket captain Mike Atherton, who took sports journalist of the year for his work in the Times, and the Daily Mail's political sketch writer Quentin Letts, who was named critic of the year for his theatre reviews, which are carried in the same newspaper.