The Picture Editors Guild presented its awards last night, with Associated Press photographer Matt Dunham named as photographer of the year. Matt captured the widely distributed image of Prince Charles and Camilla inside their car as it was attacked last year.
We have created a slideshow of some of the winning entries for this year’s contest:
The shortlist has been announced for this year’s Guardian Student Media Awards. The list of 45 individuals or publications, which were whittled from 648 entries by a panel of judges including Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger and freedom of information campaigner and journalist Heather Brooke, will compete in nine categories. The awards will be presented on 23 November.
See the full list of nominees below:
Publication of the Year
York Vision, University of York
Mouth, Kingston University
Cherwell, Oxford University
River, Kingston University (won 2010)
Felix, Imperial College London
Website of the Year
www.redbrickpaper.co.uk, University of Birmingham
www.thestudentjournals.co.uk, University of Warwick
www.susu.tv, University of Southampton
www.liverpoolstudentmedia.com, University of Liverpool
http://toglobalist.org/ , Oxford University
Reporter of the Year
Simon Murphy, Newcastle University
Lizzie Porter, Oxford University
Tom Farmery, University of Lincoln
James Burton, University of Cambridge
Michael Smith, University of Sheffield
Feature Writer of the Year
Jamie Ross, St Andrews University
Alex Dymoke, Oxford University
Thomas Hocking, University of Sheffield
Minas Panayi, Cass Business School, University London
Camilla Apkar, University of York
Columnist of the Year
Rhiannon Williams, University College London
Charlotte Hogarth Jones, University of York
Mehreen Khan, Oxford University
Samuel Gilonis, University of Southampton
Helen Robb, St Annes College, Oxford
Critic of the Year
Rachel Aroesti, Durham University
Daniel Barrow, Warwick University
Alex Gruzenberg, Darwin College, Cambridge
Toby Parker Rees, Homerton College, Cambridge
Thomas Killingbeck, University of York
Photographer of the Year
Rajan Zaveri, SAE Institute London
Ibolya Feher, University of the West of England
James Marsh, University of Wolverhampton
Bernat Millet, Middlesex University
Rosangela Borgese, University of West London
Digital Journalist of the Year
Joseph Stashko, University of Central Lancashire
Helen Stead, University of Salford
Jake Lea-Wilson, Imperial College
Dylan Lowe, Imperial College
Nick Eardley, Edinburgh Napier
Broadcast Journalist of the Year
Claire Freeman, Nottingham Trent
Clare Davis and Michael Greenfield, City University
Munawar Shaikh, University of Leeds
Elaine Ly, Nottingham Trent
Joanna Beaufoy, Emmanuel Cambridge
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Citizen journalism news site Blottr has been nominated for the 2011 Smarta 100 list of “the most resourceful, original, exciting and disruptive small businesses in the UK”.
User-generated news site Blottr currently includes news from seven UK cities and employs a ‘Write to Earn’ scheme that allows citizen journalists to earn money per multiple of page impressions.
Blottr is the only citizen news site up for an award. The full list of nominated business is here, where you can vote.
The overall winner will be announced on 21 September and will receive £10,000.
According to Smarta 100, last year’s winners have gone on to partner with the likes of LinkedIn and Lastminute.com.
Founder of Blotter Adam Baker told Journalism.co.uk:
We are absolutely delighted to be recognised by Smarta as one of the top 100 startups in the UK.
The calibre of past winners and the other 99 companies selected this year, underlines the progress Blottr has made and the ever-increasing popularity of our service and citizen journalism.
The Online News Association has this week announced the finalists of its Online Journalism Awards for this year. There are more than 100 finalists across 28 categories which produced shortlists.
You can see the full list here. The results will be announced at the 2011 ONA Conference and Online Journalism Awards Banquet on 24 September in Boston.
This year, ONA introduced changes to acknowledge the explosion of journalistic innovation on new digital platforms. Entries for all awards were open to news produced for any digital device. Eight awards come with a total of $33,000 in prize money, courtesy of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Gannett Foundation, which also is supporting innovative investigative work with two $2,500 awards.
Media City UK, a 'crazed accumulation of development'. Photo by University of Salford on Flickr. Some rights reserved
Media City UK in Salford, the new home of parts of the BBC, has been crowned the ugliest new building in Britain in this year’s Carbuncle Cup.
The awards, run by Building Design magazine, said the building had beaten “strong competition” to take the uncoveted annual award.
With characteristic reserve, a jury of national newspaper architecture critics – Rowan Moore of the Observer, Hugh Pearman of the Sunday Times, and Jonathan Glancey of the Guardian – called the site a “crazed accumulation of development” in which “aimlessly gesticulating” buildings betray a sense of “extreme anxiety” on the part of the architects.
“One is not looking for the Gate of Honour at Gonville & Caius, but… something!”, said Moore.
Lowly commended for the award was the new Museum of Liverpool, with the runners up including the One Hyde Park Development, Newport Train Station, and Brighton’s Ebenezer Chapel. The chapel development is round the corner from Journalism.co.uk’s own offices, a marvel of understated, retro design.
Four diverse news ideas in the US – a mobile platform for hyperlocal news sites, a tech news site, a news magazine covering women’s basketball, and a rollout of a site for visualising economic data – have each won a $12,000 award to launch the projects in the coming year.
According to a media release from J-Lab, the award winners were selected from 378 proposals as part of the McCormick New Media Women Entrepreneurs, an initiative to address opportunity and innovation, recruitment and retention for women in journalism by highlighting their entrepreneurial abilities.
The winners are:
Mobile news platform for hyperlocal news – A proposal by Bo Hee Kim, a UC Berkeley graduate student to build a more user and geo-friendly mobile news site for the journalism school’s three hyperlocal sites that may ultimately be used by other local sites.
SiliconHillsNews.com – A nonprofit startup for technology and biotechnology news in the Austin-San Antonio region, focusing on entrepreneurs, companies and creative people to be launched by TechChi blogger and journalist Laura Lorek.
Visualizing Economics – To expand on VisualizingEconomics.com and create illustrated guides that contain infographic explainers using economic data that helps journalists, teachers, students, financial bloggers and citizens understand economic numbers and policy.
Inside Women’s Basketball – A proposal by Atlanta documentarian and photographer Kelly Kline to build out InsideWomensBasketball.com as the centralised news, entertainment and social networking site for some 12 million fans and participants of women’s basketball.
Runners-up included:
Carolina Public Press, an in-depth news site for western North Carolina.
Speak and listen mobile news reader, a spoken dialogue interface on mobile devices for listening to online news.
Rockies Rising, a site to connect and inform investors and entrepreneurs in the Rocky Mountain corridor.
I Am Young Nation, an online publication to attract and retain young urban doers.
The New Media Diversity Wire, an initiative to place women’s voices and ideas in high-profile online outlets, amplified by social media.
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The New Scientist leads the shortlist for this year’s Association of Science Writers’ Awards.
The awards, organised by the Association of British Science Writers, are divided into four categories: Best news item; best feature, best scripted/edited television programme or online video; best investigative journalism, and best newcomer.
The ABSW has also added a new radio or podcast prize this year, sponsored by the Royal Society.
New Scientist holds two out of the three nominations in both the news and feature categories. Freelancer Shaoni Bhattacharya is nominated for ‘Tracking the Rhino Killers’ and New Scientist staff reporter Jessica Hamzelou is nominated for ‘Too Young to Know Better’. They will compete against the Independent’s science editor Steve Connor, who is nominated for ‘Fabricated Quote Used to Discredit Climate Scientist’.
Bhattacharya is also nominated in the feature category for ‘Murder in the Bat Cave’, published in New Scientist. She will go up against the magazine’s Brussels correspondent Debora McKenzie, nominated for ‘Living in Denial: Why sensible people reject the truth’, and David Adam for ‘The Hottest Year’, published in Nature magazine.
Another New Scientist reporter, Linda Geddes is nominated in the investigative category for ‘Between Prison and Freedom’, and the magazine’s careers editor Jessica Griggs is nominated for best newcomer.
Geddes will compete for the investigative prize against a team entry from freelancer Philip Carter and British Medical Journal assistant editor Deborah Cohen, and freelancer Fred Pearce for a climate change article in the Guardian.
See the full shortlist at this link.
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University of York student newspaper Nouse has been nominated for Best Student Media in the NUS Awards for the fourth year running.
Nouse was a runner up in 2008, won the award in 2009, and then missed out to fellow York student publication the Lemon Press last year.
In 2006, the newspaper was nominated for Best Student Newspaper at the Guardian Student Media Awards, an award it won the year before, and the National Student Journalism Awards.
The other two nominees for this year’s award are 2009 finalist Forge Press, University of Sheffield, and the National and London Student Journalism Support Networks – University of London (submitted by Queen Mary Students’ Union).
Forge Press editor Matthew Burgess is nominated for the the Student Journalist of the Year prize, alongside Simon Murphy, news editor of Newcastle University’s the Courier, and Nick Stylianou, media and communications officer at Royal Holloway and former editor of university publication the Orbital.
This year’s Knight Batten Awards for Innovation in Journalism are now open for entries.
According to guidelines from organiser the J-Lab Institute for Interactive Journalism, the awards recognise “pioneering approaches to news and information” and those entering can submit “journalism content, new journalism processes or ideas, or tools or new applications that promote the information needs of communities and/or enhance digital engagement”.
The contest is open to all news efforts originating between 1 May 2010, and 6 June 2011.
The winners will be announced at the Knight-Batten Awards Symposium in September 2011, at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.
Last year’s grand prize was won by Sunlight Live, an offshoot of US non-profit and think tank the Sunlight Foundation, after it was used to livestream video and aggregate content around a major US healthcare summit.
The Rory Peck Awards, which recognises the work of freelance cameramen and women in news and current affairs, are now open for entries.
The awards consist of three categories:
According to a release from the Rory Peck Trust, “the awards recognise quality of camerawork, but also take into account individual endeavour, initiative and journalistic ability”.
“We welcome self-funded work and entries from local freelancers, especially those working in regions where it is difficult to operate.”
Last year’s winner was Arturo Perez, who spoke to Journalism.co.uk after winning the award about the struggle to report Mexico’s violent drug wars.
The award is named after freelance cameraman Rory Peck (pictured), who was killed in 1993 while filming in Moscow. In 1995 the Rory Peck Trust, which organises the award, was established in his memory to help provide support for freelancers and their families.
All entries must have been first broadcast between 1 August 2010 and 31 May 2011. Closing date for Entries is Monday 6 June.