Bill Thompson: "As I write this I’m also keeping an eye on the British Press Awards because they are being fed live to Twitter by the organisers."

Shock angle from the Mail: "The Editor of the Daily Mail has been honoured with the first-ever lifetime achievement trophy at the British Press Awards…"

"Andrew Gilligan, having been shortlisted for his reports into Ken Livingstone’s spending as Mayor of London, has been at pains to stress the importance of publicly available information on the web to his investigation."

"Ghaith Abdul-Ahad has been shortlisted for foreign correspondent of the year in the British Press Awards. He will be filing a series of remarkable profiles of ordinary Iraqis every day this week."

"The two main changes to these categories are the addition of two new online awards: Website of the Year, for the pre-eminent national newspaper website in the UK, and Digital Journalist of the Year, for a journalist whose work appears online and which ut