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The Daily Mail has been named as the Newspaper of the Year at the annual Press Awards, with its website the Mail Online picking up the prize for Website of the Year.

At a ceremony on Tuesday night the newspaper was presented with the prize of Newspaper of the Year, as well as the Cudlipp Award, which is presented in commemoration of Hugh Cudlipp.

The Mail received the award in recognition of its Stephen Lawrence campaign, which also scooped the award for Campaign of the Year on the night.

The title's journalists were also named as the News Team of the Year, while writer Craig Brown personally picked up three awards on the night, including Columnist of the Year (popular), Critic of the Year and Best of Humour Award for his work in the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday.

Other winners included David Collins of the Daily Mirror was took away the award for News Reporter of the Year and the Daily Telegraph's Ruth Sherlock who was named Young Journalist of the Year.

A full list of the winners is available on the event website and is listed below:

Young Journalist of the Year: Ruth Sherlock, The Daily Telegraph

Business & Finance Journalist of the Year: Harry Wilson & Philip Aldrick, The Daily and The Sunday Telegraph

Political Journalist of the Year: Isabel Oakeshott, The Sunday Times

Foreign Reporter of the Year: Hala Jaber, The Sunday Times

Showbiz Reporter of the Year: Ben Todd, Daily Mail

Sports Journalist of the Year: Mark Souster, The Times

Specialist Reporter of the Year: Jeremy Laurance, The Independent

Feature Writer of the Year - Broadsheet: David James Smith, The Sunday Times Magazine

Feature Writer of the Year – Popular: David Jones, Daily Mail

Interviewer of the Year - Broadsheet: Deborah Ross, The Independent

Interviewer of the Year – Popular: Beth Neil, Fabulous Magazine, The Sun

Critic of the Year: Craig Brown, The Mail on Sunday

Diarist of the Year: The Londoner’s Diary, London Evening Standard

Photographer of the Year: Oli Scarff, Getty Images

Sports Photographer of the Year: Mike Egerton, Press Association

Cartoonist of the Year: Peter Brookes, The Times

Campaign of the Year: Stephen Lawrence, Daily Mail

Website of the Year: Mail Online

Best of Humour: Craig Brown, Daily Mail

News Reporter of the Year: David Collins, Daily Mirror

Supplement of the Year: The Times Magazine

Columnist – Broadsheet: Melanie Reid, The Times

Columnist – popular: Craig Brown, Daily Mail

Judges’ Special Award: Peter Wright, Mail on Sunday

Team Awards

News Team: Daily Mail

Sports Team: The Daily Telegraph

Business & Finance Team: The Times

Production & Design Team: i

Front Page of the year: Rule of the Mob, The Daily Telegraph

Scoop of the Year: 'Milly Dowler Phone Hacked', The Guardian

Newspaper of the Year: Daily Mail

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