Insider's editor Michael Taylor scooped both personal and team honours at the Northern Journalist of the Year Awards in Leeds last week. Other winners included Andy MacFarlane of the Bolton News, Sally Henfield of the Lancashire Telegraph and Granada's Tessa Chapman.
The Insider team
The event was hosted by journalist and broadcaster and former director general of the BBC, Greg Dyke and was sponsored by the Yorkshire Bank.
Michael Taylor, picked up ‘Business Journalist of the year’ for his detailed work into the issue of carousel fraud and the decline of music retailer, Music Zone.
Taylor and his colleagues also picked up the award for the ‘Business Media Team of the Year’ for the title's North West edition.
Chapman
Tessa Chapman of Granada picked up the award for ‘Young Journalist of the Year’ for her piece about Hannah Sutton, following a family’s return to the destination of a tragedy and yob behaviour and violence in Penketh.
Sally Henfield of the Lancashire Telegraph collected the ‘Campaign of the Year’ award for her campaign ‘Wasted Lives’.
Henfield
The campaign, which was launched in April this year, focussed on a variety of driving related issues including pushing for a DVD to be issued to every 15 year old school pupil in East Lancashire, an educational road show to visit every school and the imposition of a 50 mph speed limit for drivers under 25 with less than two years driving experience.
Andrew McFarlane of the Bolton News won ‘ Feature Writer of the Year’ for his articles on the economic situation regarding immigrants bridging the skills gap.
MacFarlane
MacFarlane explored various issues surrounding economic immigrants, particularly the Polish community and the role that the unions have played in trying to ensure workers are offered positions more appropriate to their skill sets rather than just employing chemical engineers as bus drivers.
MacFarlane also examined the economic impact immigration was having on schooling and health in Bolton.
MacFarlane joined the Bolton News in December last year following earlier spells on the North West Enquirer and Hull Daily Mail.
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