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British Press Awards 2009: full list of winners

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Young journalist of the year
Winner: Tom Harper, Mail on Sunday
Highly commended: Sam Jones, Financial Times

Cartoonist of the year
Winner: Matt Pritchett, Daily Telegraph

Critic of the year
Winner: Philip French, the Observer

Digital journalist of the year
Winner: Dave Hill, the Guardian

Interviewer of the year
Winner: Decca Aitkenhead, the Guardian
Highly commended: Ginny Dougary, the Times

Showbiz reporter of the year
Winner: James Desborough, News of the World
Highly commended: Richard White, the Sun

Sports photographer of the year
Winner: Dickie Pelham, the Sun
Highly commended: Dylan Martinez, Reuters

Photographer of the year
Winner: Stefan Rousseau, PA Photos

Sports journalist of the year
Winner: Matthew Syed, The Times
Highly commended: Ian Stafford, Mail on Sunday

Supplement of the year
Winner: You magazine, Mail on Sunday

Website of the year
Winner: the Guardian

Scoop of the year
Winner: "Ross & Brand", Miles Goslett, Mail on Sunday

Columnist of the year
Winner: Charlie Brooker, the Guardian

Specialist journalist of the year
Winner: Stephen Wright, Daily Mail
Highly commended: Sarah-Kate Templeton, Sunday Times

Campaign of the year
Winner: "Family Courts", Camilla Cavendish, the Times
Highly commended: "Right to Pay", Sarah Kate Templeton, Sunday Times

Feature writer of the year
Winner: Philip Jacobson, Freelance (Sunday Times and Mail on Sunday)
Highly commended: Tanya Gold, Freelance (Daily Mail and the Guardian)

Business and finance journalist of the year
Winner: Stephen Foley, The Independent

The Cudlipp Award
Winner: Race War, Stephen Wright/Richard Pendlebury, Daily Mail
Highly commended: "Save our Streets" campaign, News of the World

Political journalist of the year
Winner: Quentin Letts, Daily Mail

Foreign reporter of the year
Winner: Dan McDougall, Freelance (the Observer, News of the World and Mail on Sunday's Live magazine)

Reporter of the year
Winner: Christopher Leake, Mail on Sunday
Highly commended: Andrew Alderson, The Sunday Telegraph
Highly commended: Jon Ungoed-Thomas, The Sunday Times

International journalist of the year
Mohammad Sadegh Kaboudvand, Iran

Journalist of the year
Gillian Tett, Financial Times

Newspaper of the year
The Times

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