The Times and The Sunday Times have won 13 prizes at the Press Awards including Daily Newspaper and Sunday Newspaper of the Year.
At the event, which took place on Thursday at the Marriott Grosvenor Hotel in London, News UK titles were recognised in an array of categories covering politics, business, sports and photography.
Naming The Times best Daily Newspaper, the judges described it as “excellent all round”.
“The Times continues to value and invest in its news product which makes it the go-to newspaper,” they added. “It has a skilled set of writers in features and comment plus its extension into audio and radio brings in a more diverse audience.”
The victory was repeated with a win for The Sunday Times in the Sunday Newspaper category.
Its exclusive interview with Sir Chris Hoy about his terminal prostate cancer diagnosis was highlighted as having the potential to save lives.
“A game-changer when it comes to its campaigning,” judges added. “The Sunday Times has a superbly presented portfolio, bringing to life the interviews, investigations and exclusives for which it has been long renowned.”
Other winners included The Times’s George Greenwood as Data Journalist of the Year, and senior writer Sean O’Neill.
O’Neill’s work on raising awareness of ME and pushing for reform, propelled by the death of his daughter Maeve Boothby O’Neill in October 2021, was named Campaign of the Year.
James Glossop and Marc Aspland respectively won Photographer and Sports Photographer of the Year, while The Times Magazine, described as a “must read’, was named Supplement of the Year.
The Times’s crime correspondent David Woode was highly commended in the specialist journalist category, alongside Jonathan Dean as showbiz reporter.
There was also a clutch of wins for Sunday Times news journalists.
Danny Fortson was best Business and Finance Journalist, while Gabriel Pogrund triumphed in both the News Reporter and Political Journalist categories with his “donor-gate scandal” singled out for special mention.
Decca Aitkenhead’s interview with former Olympian Hoy led to her being named Broadsheet Interviewer of the Year, with Morten Morland best Cartoonist for his work across both titles.
Times Media was also highly commended in five categories, including Podcast of the Year for its drug industry investigation Cocaine Inc.
Elsewhere The Times and Sunday Times Scotland won four major accolades at the Scottish Press Awards.
Kieran Andrews was named Political Journalist of the Year for exclusives including Humza Yousaf’s resignation as Scotland’s first minister.
Business editor Greig Cameron won Financial/Business Journalist of the Year for the fifth year in a row, with restaurant critic Chitra Ramaswamy named best Food and Drink Writer and Michael Grant Sports Columnist of the Year.
