THE Herald has been nominated for 10 awards in this year's Scottish Press Awards.
The shortlist for the 28th annual awards, announced yesterday, sees three Herald journalists in the running for the arts/entertainment writer of the year award - Phil Miller, the paper's arts correspondent, and Teddy Jamieson and Susan Swarbrick, writers for The Herald Magazine.
Lucy Adams, The Herald's chief reporter, and Michael Tierney, a writer for the magazine, are shortlisted for the feature writer of the year award.
David Leask, The Herald's home affairs correspondent, is shortlisted for reporter of the year for his recent journalism in the Evening Times. Melanie Reid, meanwhile, is nominated in the columnist of the year category. Simon Bain is featured in the financial/business writer of the year category, and Colin Mearns is nominated for sports photographer of the year.
Herald cartoonists Steven Camley and Bill McArthur are also in the running for cartoonist of the year.
With 10 and three nominations respectively, the Sunday Herald and the Evening Times also feature prominently in the shorlist for the competition, which is organised by the Scottish Daily Newspaper Society, and recognises excellence in journalism.
Nominations from the former title include Harry Horse, the political cartoonist who died earlier this year.
Also shortlisted are Neil Mackay (reporter of the year and feature writer of the year), Peter Ross (feature writer of the year), Paul Hutcheon (political journalist of the year), Ian Bell (columnist of the year), Tom Shields (columnist of the year), Ken Symon (financial/business writer of the year), and Natasha Woods (sports news writer of the year).
The Sunday Herald is also competing for front page of the year for its coverage of the military and civilian casualties killed in Iraq since 2003.
The Evening Times is nominated for campaign of the year for its investigation into rising crime levels in Glasgow. It is also shortlisted for front page of the year, in recognition of its reporting on gang problems in Scotland's largest city.
The ceremony takes place next month at Glasgow's Radisson SAS Hotel.
Shortlisted:
Arts / Entertainment Writer of the Year
Teddy Jamieson, Phil Miller, Susan Swarbrick
Cartoonist of the Year
Steven Camley, Bill McArthur
Columnist of the Year
Melanie Reid
Feature Writer of the Year
Lucy Adams, Michael Tierney
Financial/Business Writer of the Year
Simon Bain
Sports Photographer of the Year
Colin Mearns
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