Is it time for a British Journalism Awards?
Wednesday, 24 March 2010, 13:36
In the time I worked at Press Gazette — and indeed even before that — there were complaints like this one from Craig McGill’s blog about how the British Press Awards deal with digital journalism every single year.
We had plenty of good-faith internal debates on how to fix this and the organisers have come up with plenty of not-quite-right solutions.
How can there be a legitimate news website of the year award, for example, if the BBC or Sky can’t win it? Why should a reporter’s digital efforts have a special class of awards when there is barely any recognition for other specialist functions like subbing? Does shooting some video or running a really great blog really warrant an award separate from reporters or photographers working in print?
These questions are definitely being asked behind the scenes. And the sub-optimal outcomes are not, contrary to the common assumption in the media blogosphere, caused print dinosaurs resisting or resenting digital journalism.
There’s a bigger philosophical problem here about adapting media awards categories devised in a different age to the era of converged media.
What we really need is a medium-agnostic journalism awards rather than a “press” awards and a “television” awards and a “radio” awards, each with tokenistic “digital” gongs.
Shortlists revealed for online categories in British Press Awards
Tuesday, 4 March 2008, 15:03
The shortlist for the 2008 British Press Awards was released today.
For the first time, the Awards included a new category of “digital journalist of the year” and a new “website of the year” award.
Digital Journalist of the Year
Sean Smith – The Guardian
Toby Harnden – Daily Telegraph
Daniel Finkelstein – The Times
Declan Walsh – The Guardian
Clancy [...]
Bloggers’ reaction to the British Press Awards
Thursday, 29 March 2007, 16:57
Here’s a shock: Some right-wing political bloggers have reacted badly to their journalistic bête noir, Polly Toynbee, collecting the gong for columnist of the year. on Monday night.
For the Devil’s Kitchen, this was a sure sign that “everyone else in the MSM is even stupider than Polly herself”.
He went on to claim:
If we needed any [...]
PA trials new slideshow tool at Press Awards
Tuesday, 27 March 2007, 10:29
Last night, Press Gazette reported the winners of the British Press Awards live on a dedicated blog (on Twitter).
But the most exciting aspects of the project was our first public use of ShowBuilder, a new multimedia slideshow tool being developed by the Press Association and Vexed Digital.
Using the tool, we created audio sideshows to embed [...]
