Honours have been shared across print and broadcast categories in this year’s O2 Media Awards for Yorkshire and The Humber.
The Yorkshire Post and Yorkshire Evening Post picked up three awards for news, community journalism and photography, but lost out to the Hull Daily Mail in Best Daily Newspaper. The Mail also triumphed in On-Line Media and Most Memorable story.
In the broadcast categories it was a similar story with ITV Yorkshire taking home three O2s thanks to outstanding individual performances from Chris Dawkes, who was named best Broadcast Sports Journalist; Sam Casey, Best Broadcast News Reporter and Michael Newton, Best Camera Operator. BBC rivals Look North and Look North East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire also won a trio of trophies including the Best News Programme for coverage of the Manchester Arena bomb attack and Best Team.
Paul Davies, of The Star, Sheffield, became the first journalist to win both Best Sports Writer and overall Best Writer awards. The Grimsby Telegraph also landed a brace thanks to Jon Corken, Best Image and Young Print Journalist of the Year, Connor Lynch.
In the radio categories BBC Radio Leeds won Best Sports Programme and the Radio Journalist category with staffer Tracy Gee. There was a special posthumous award for Stand Out Journalism, presented to the family of BBC cricket correspondent Dave Callaghan, who died in March this year following a heart attack.
Best Radio Presenter award went to BBC Radio Sheffield’s Toby Foster. Kerry Maule of Made in Leeds was named top TV presenter while BBC Radio York took home the Most Memorable Broadcast award for their story on a woman living in a car. Leeds based production company, True North, won Best Entertainment Programme for the second year running, this time with their children’s show the Pets Factor.
BBC Breakfast’s Louise Minchin hosted the awards alongside O2’s Head of Corporate Communications Dave Massey at Leeds United Football Club. Guests included members of the public who had featured in the award winners’ portfolios, as well as medical, support staff and patients from Yorkshire hospitals to mark the 70th birthday of the NHS being formed.
“This year’s O2 Media Awards reflected the major impact the media and creative sectors have on their region and across the UK. It was wonderful to celebrate the achievements of indivudals and organisations working in TV, radio and print. It was also a fitting opportunity to thank some of Yorkshire’s unsung heroes, the doctors, nurses and support staff working across Yorkshire communities, on a day which marked a special anniversary for the NHS,” said Nicola Green, Director of Corporate Affairs at O2.
Photographs and video footage of the evening is available at XXX.
O2 Media Awards Yorkshire and The Humber 2018 winners:
News Reporter Print
Ruby Kitchen – Yorkshire Post & Yorkshire Evening Post
Highly commended
Georgina Morris – Yorkshire Evening Post
Kevin Shoesmith – Hull Daily Mail
Chris Burn – Yorkshire Post
Peter Craig – Grimsby Telegraph
News Reporter Broadcast
Sam Casey – ITV Yorkshire
Highly commended
Emma Glasbey – BBC Look North
Louise Fewster – BBC Radio York
Tracy Gee – BBC Radio Leeds
Television Broadcast Presenter
Kerry Maule – Made in Leeds
Highly commended
Amy Garcia – BBC Look North
Tim Iredale – BBC Yorkshire & Lincolnshire
Peter Levy – BBC Look North East Yorkshire & Lincolnshire
Radio Broadcast Presenter
Toby Foster – BBC Radio Sheffield
Highly commended
Katie Radley – Global Radio Yorkshire
David Burns – BBC Radio Humberside
Julia Lewis – BBC Radio York
Best Writer
Paul Davis – The Star, Sheffield
Highly commended
David Behrens – Yorkshire Post
Ruby Kitchen – Yorkshire Post & Yorkshire Evening Post
Tony Earnshaw – Huddersfield Daily Examiner
Television Journalist
Jamie Coulson – BBC Look North
Highly commended
Emma Glasbey – BBC Look North
Phillip Norton – BBC Look North East Yorkshire & Lincolnshire
Lucy Hester – BBC Inside Out
Sports Journalist Print
Paul Davis – The Star, Sheffield
Highly commended
Philip Buckingham – Hull Daily Mail
Danny Hall – The Star, Sheffield
Sports Journalist Broadcast
Chris Dawkes – ITV Yorkshire
Highly commended
Mark Ansell – BBC Look North
Rob Staton – BBC Radio Sheffield
Jonathan Buchan – BBC Radio Sheffield
Young Journalist Broadcast
Thomas Dambach – Radio Aire
Highly commended
Ben Bason – Hallam FM
Katharine Walker – ITV Yorkshire
Otis Holmes – ITV Yorkshire
Adam Goacher – That’s North Yorkshire
Young Journalist Print
Connor Lynch – Grimsby Telegraph
Highly commended
Alex Grove – Hull Daily Mail
Joseph Keith – Yorkshire Evening Post
Sam Jones – Whitby Gazette
Radio Journalist
Tracy Gee – BBC Radio Leeds
Highly commended
Andy Kershaw – BBC Radio Sheffield
Louise Fewster – BBC Radio York
Rosanna Austin – Radio Aire
Camera Operator
Michael Newton – ITV Yorkshire
Highly commended
Anna Crossley – BBC Look North
Peter Thompson – BBC Look North East Yorkshire & Lincolnshire
Best Photographer
Simon Hulme – Yorkshire Post
Highly commended
Jonathan Gawthorpe – Yorkshire Post
Stephen Garnett – Dalesman
Best Image
Jon Corken – Grimsby Telegraph
News Programme
Manchester Arena bomb – BBC Look North
Highly commended
Modern Slavery – BBC Look North East Yorkshire & Lincolnshire
Huddersfield Town FC homecoming – ITV Yorkshire
Sports Programme
Huddersfield Town FC promotion – BBC Radio Leeds
Highly commended
Sheffield ‘Derby’ – BBC Radio Sheffield
Entertainment Programme
The Pets Factor – True North Productions
Highly commended
The Yorkshire Dales & The Lakes – True North Productions
The Harry Hometime Show – Minster FM
999 Rescue Squad – Air Televison
On-line Media
Hull Daily Mail
Highly commended
Leeds Live
BBC Radio York
The Star, Sheffield
Daily Newspaper
Hull Daily Mail
Highly commended
Yorkshire Post
Huddersfield Daily Examiner
Weekly Newspaper
Whitby Gazette
Highly commended
Sheffield Telegraph
The Scarborough News
Magazine & Specialist Publication
Asian Life – Telegraph & Argus
Highly commended
Dalesman – Country Publications
Tour De Yorkshire – Yorkshire Post
Clubland – Rotherham Advertiser
Community Publication
Down Your Way
Highly commended
Just Beverley
Out and About in the North York Moors
Community Journalism
Yorkshire Evening Post
BBC Look North East Yorkshire & Lincolnshire
Highly commended
Telegraph & Argus
Sabbiyah Pervez – BBC Yorkshire
Most Memorable Broadcast
“I live in the car” – BBC Radio York
Highly commended
NHS in crisis – ITV Yorkshire
Yorkshire Ripper letter – ITV Yorkshire
Trusted Trader Investigation – BBC Look North East Yorkshire & Lincolnshire
Most Memorable Print
Scratchcard Millionaire – Hull Daily Mail
Highly commended
Yorkshire’s Missing MP – The Yorkshire Post
Remembering the Triple Trawler Tragedy – Hull Daily Mail
Best Team
BBC Look North
Highly commended
Air Television
Radio Aire News
BBC Radio York
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