British Press Awards shortlists announced with all newspaper groups entering

The shortlists for this year's British Press Awards have been announced, and I suspect Piers Morgan and Matthew Freud are going to be pissed, because all of the UK's newspaper groups have entered the industry awards programme this year. As previously reported, several newspaper companies boycotted the Press Gazette's annual awards last year, officially because of the bad rep the awards event itself got after various journalists got very drunk and misbehaved, though Freud was always convinced another reason for the boycott was his ownership of the newspaper industry's trade mag. And given that now he's pulled out of the whole operation all the newspapers are back on board, he was probably right to suspect that was so. Though to be fair, the event itself did become less riotous last year, which might have also convinced some newspaper owners back. The awards will be presented at an event on 26 Mar. Nominations are online at http://www.britishpressawards.com/finalists.html