Well done to Mark Hughes of University of Central Lancashire, who has been named Student Journalist Of The Year at the Press Gazette Student Journalism Awards, one of several award type things celebrating the best in college media. Hughes also won the prizes for News Writer Of The Year and for Scoop Of The Year, for an exclusive story about a former male nurse who was not only jailed for abducting a 15-year-old girl but who admitted that he planned to marry the girl once he was released from prison. Full list of winners in the Press Gazette student awards as follows:
Student News Writer of the Year: Mark Hughes, University of Central Lancashire
Student Feature Writer of the Year: Mel Bezalel, City University
Student Interviewer of the Year: Jasper Hamill, Scottish Centre for Journalism Studies
Student Online Journalist of the Year: Jack Templeton, Cumbria Institute of the Arts
Student Scoop of the Year: Mark Hughes, University of Central Lancashire
Student Radio Journalist of the Year: Matthew Price, Nottingham Trent University
Student Television Journalist of the Year: Stephanie Mercer, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Student Photographer of the Year: Angela Ward, Norton College, Sheffield
Student Team of the Year: SPWCI Magazine, Cardiff University
Student Journalist of the Year: Mark Hughes, University of Central Lancashire