Dorset Echo reporter Miriam Phillips scoops young journalist award
May 22nd, 2009Posted by Katarina Witzheller in Events
Photo: (left to right) Neil Glass (Judges Award), Melanie Vass (Reporter of the Year), Martyn Benn (chairman of the judges), Miriam Phillips (Young Journalist of the Year) and Richard Crease (Photographer of the Year).
This year’s Hammond/Whiteley Awards, which were launched 1983 in memory of two senior Bournemouth Daily Echo journalists, John Hammond and Carl Whiteley, were presented this week at Bournemouth university.
Miriam Phillips, Dorset Echo reporter, scooped the Jane Hayward Memorial Trophy, which honours the young journalist of the year, for a second time.
Bournemouth Daily Echo journalists collected two awards: reporter of the year going to Melanie Vass and photographer of the year to Richard Crease.
Tags: Bournemouth Daily, Carl Whiteley, Dorset Echo, John Hammond, Melanie Vass, Miriam Phillips, Neil Glass, Richard Crease
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