Telegraph's coverage of MPs' expenses dominates British Press Awards

The MPs' expenses story dominated last night's British Press Awards, which saw the Daily Telegraph named newspaper of the year.

The Telegraph, which broke the MPs' expenses story, picked up six awards in total, including journalist of the year for editor-in-chief Will Lewis and political journalist of the year for Robert Winnett.

Its special MPs' expenses supplement was also praised and the story was named scoop of the year. Investigative journalist Heather Brooke was presented with a special award, acknowledging her role in the expenses' expose.

"I don't begrudge the Telegraph and I hope they don't begrudge me," she said last night.

News International titles took nine awards, including best digital innovation for its online radio broadcast SunTalk.

The Daily Mail took three prizes, while its Sunday counterpart won two. The Guardian equalled that tally with two awards, including reporter of the year for Paul Lewis for his reports exposing the details of the death of newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson at the G20 protests.

The full list of winners:

Newspaper of the year - The Daily Telegraph

Journalist of the year - Will Lewis, editor-in-chief, Telegraph Media Group

Reporter of the year - Paul Lewis, the Guardian

Foreign reporter of the year - Marie Colvin, the Sunday Times

Political journalist of the year - Robert Winnett, the Daily Telegraph

Specialist journalist of the year - Jason Lewis, Mail on Sunday

Feature writer of the year - Tanya Gold, the Guardian

Campaign of the year - MPs' expenses, the Daily Telegraph

Special award - Heather Brooke, investigative journalist

Foreign journalist of the year - J. S. Tissainayagam from Sri Lanka

Journalists' Charity Award - Walter Greenwood

Special supplement of the year - MPs' expenses, the Daily Telegraph

Regular supplement of the year - You, Mail on Sunday

Scoop of the year - MPs' expenses, the Daily Telegraph

Cudlipp Award for campaigning popular journalism - Andrew Penman and Nick Sommerlad, Daily Mirror

Business and finance journalist of the year - Iain Dey, the Sunday Times

Sports journalist of the year - Mike Atherton, the Times

Photographer of the year - Stefan Rousseau, Press Association Images

Sports Photographer of the year - Andy Hooper, the Daily Mail

Showbiz reporter of the year - Dan Wootton, News of the World

Interviewer of the year - Camilla Long, the Sunday Times

Digital Innovation - SunTalk, the Sun

Critic of the year - Quentin Letts, the Daily Mail

Cartoonist of the year - Peter Brookes, the Times

Young journalist of the year - Sheera Frankel, the Times

Columnist of the year - Caitlin Moran, the Times

Sports photographer of the year - Andy Hooper, Daily Mail

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