The Belfast Telegraph’s Northern Ireland Editor Sam McBride has been named the winner of the Local Journalism award at the Press Gazette’s British Journalism Awards 2024.
Mr McBride was the winner of the category thanks to his Killing Edgar podcast – which examined the IRA murder of Edgar Graham, unionism’s lost leader.
He also won the category for his journalism and reporting around the environmental crisis at Lough Neagh – also being named Highly Commended in the Energy & Environment Journalism category.
Speaking after he won, the judges said: “Sam is a proper journalistic pain in the arse for those in power. Strong, compelling stories, meticulously researched and told with flair and authority.”
It marks the latest awards success for the Belfast Telegraph and Sunday Life over the course of the last year.
In November the Belfast Telegraph was named UK Regional News Media Organisation at the Society of Editors’ Media Freedom Awards.
Mr McBride was also shortlisted for the Regional Journalist of the Year and for Investigation of the Year, while his Uncovered newsletter received a nomination in the Innovation category.
Kirsten Elder from the Belfast Telegraph was the only regional nomination in the photojournalism category, which was won by The Telegraph’s Simon Townsley.
Meanwhile in March the Belfast Telegraph’s Weekend magazine was named regional supplement of the year at the annual Newspaper Awards in London.
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News Catch Up – Thursday 12 December