Awards commemorate old-school reporters

Features on comedian Freddie Starr and Beach Boys legend Brian Wilson won an NUJ Bournemouth Branch award for Daily Echo arts and entertainment editor Jeremy Miles.

Winning the judges’ prize in the branch’s Hammond Whiteley Awards, he was one of four honoured in the awards established 25 years ago in memory of two Daily Echo journalists, John Hammond and Carl Whiteley, who died suddenly within five days of each other in 1981.

Jeremy Miles has spent 37 years in journalism. He worked on the Folkestone Herald and Kentish Gazette before joining the then Evening Echo — now the Daily Echo, Bournemouth — 21 years ago.

Young Journalist of the Year went to Miriam Phillips, 24, of the Dorset Echo based in Weymouth. She won the Jane Hayward Trophy in memory of a talented Daily Echo reporter who died at the age of 27 following a long illness.

Photographer of the Year was Bournemouth freelance John Beasley. His award remembers Harry Ashley who was chief photographer at the Daily Echo in Bournemouth.

Journalist of the Year was Daily Echo reporter Julie Magee.

All four winners represent the legacy left by Hammond and Whiteley: “John and Carl were the cream of reporters of the old school — devoted to their craft, hard-working, conscientious, painstakingly accurate in everything they did and helpful and encouraging to their younger colleagues,” said Bournemouth and Dorset Branch Chair Martyn Benn.

Journalist Awards Service

Calendar July–September 2008

LORENZO NATALI PRIZE

Deadline: 30 June 2008
Categories: (4) radio, television, press and internet – awarded to journalists defending human rights, democracy and development
Prizes: total €50,000
Sponsors: The European Commission
Contact: greta.hopkins@ec.europa.eu

GUARDIAN STUDENT MEDIA AWARDS

Deadline: 4 July 2008
Categories: (13) newspaper, magazine, reporter, feature writer, photographer, publication design, website (entries closed 6 June), critic, broadcaster, sports writer, diversity writer, travel writer, columnist, overall winner
Prizes: £400–£1,650 plus work experience at the Guardian and Sky News
Sponsors: Guardian, SKY News
Contact: smarequestapplication@guardian.co.uk
http://media.guardian.co.uk/studentmediaawards

TAYLOR WESSING PORTRAIT PRIZE

Deadline: 25 July 2008
Categories: (1) best in contemporary portrait photography
Prizes: £12,000
Sponsors: Taylor Wessing
Contact: www.npg.org.uk/photoprize

PAUL FOOT AWARD

Deadline: 1 September 2008
Categories: (1) investigative journalism publishing in print or online 1 September 2007 to 31 August 2008
Prize: First £5,000, Runners up £1,000
Sponsors include: The Guardian, Private Eye
Contact: digby.halsby@midaspr.co.uk

Rory Peck Awards

Deadline: 2 September 2008
Categories: (3): news, features, impact by freelance camera operators in TV news and current affairs
Sponsor: Sony UK
Contact: awards@rorypecktrust.org

Eloquium COPD Award

Deadline: 21 September 2008
Categories: (3): consumer, medical, broadcast
Prize: To be confirmed
Sponsor: Boehringer Ingelheim
Contact: www.eloquium.org/
Plain English Campaign Awards
Deadline: 30 September 2008
Categories: (3) national paper, regional paper, TV programme
Contact: info@plainenglish.co.uk

The Journalist is published by the National Union of Journalists