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The Star's Martin Smith is Yorkshire Journalist of the Year.

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Published Date: 13 November 2009
By Graham Walker
Digital Editor
THE Star's Martin Smith has been crowned Yorkshire Journalist of the Year and today the paper is celebrating other top honours.
Martin was named Sports Writer of the Year and was highly commended in the The Adrian Sudbury Feature Writer of the Year Award (Daily) at the Yorkshire Press Awards.

Judges then handed him the overall top award of Yorkshire Journalist of 2009.

His work was praised for its sensitivity and humour. Judges said he has the ability to get to the heart of subjects he wrote about.

The Star also won Best Multimedia News Delivery – for its digital coverage, including video, street cameras, texts, emails, Twitter and Facebook alerts, when floods brought Sheffield to a standstill in June.

Shortlisted were Claire Lewis, for News Reporter of the Year, Fiona Firth, for Business Writer of the Year, Sarah Washbourn, for Photographer of the Year and The Star, for Yorkshire Newspaper of the Year.

Editor Alan Powell said: "It was a great night for The Star's editorial team. The paper was lauded across a whole range of areas and showed the strength and scope of our reportage.

"And it was a particular triumph for Martin Smith. To be named Yorkshire Journalist of the Year is a brilliant achievement."

The 12th annual Yorkshire Press Awards, held at Wakefield's Cedar Court Hotel, were again sponsored by Yorkshire Water.

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  • Last Updated: 13 November 2009 8:22 AM
  • Source: Sheffield Star
  • Location: Sheffield
 
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verydull,

13/11/2009 08:36:57
lol
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13/11/2009 09:50:09
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13/11/2009 12:38:05
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Jerry-Co,

13/11/2009 16:10:08
The star says... "Got a view? Leave a comment below"

My view is simple. Well done lad. I also expressed an opinion about another shortlisted News Reporter of the year candidate. Why on earth ask for comments and then remove them? I get increasingly frustrated by news articles that are clearly cut & pasted from the Internet and show no sign of journalistic reporting ability. Claire Lewis is an award winning journalist but also the subject of a press complaints commission investigation.
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flockyowl,

13/11/2009 18:36:51
dunt say much about the opposition.
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flockyowl,

13/11/2009 18:37:40
i presume there was some opposition.
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s36inspain,

still in spain 13/11/2009 20:20:25
Did staff copy get a look in at the awards.....

she or he seems to have done a good rubbish story!!!!!

Fly tippers beware Staff copy is on the case LOL
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Miss Informed,

Martin Smith 14/11/2009 18:37:31
Congratulations Martin
We always enjoy your featyres and views and more often than not agree with them.
Good stuff
Best Wishes
Jean Gleadall
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