North West finalists prepare for media showdown
Lancashire Business View has been shortlisted for yet another top regional media award.
The magazine has been nominated in the ‘Specialist Publication’ category in this year’s O2 Media Awards North West.
In a record breaking year more than 420 entries were received across the different categories.
Nicola Green, director of corporate affairs at O2, said: “The O2s showcase excellence in news, sport, entertainment, social and community media and applaud the growth of creative industries in the North West.
“Whether it’s writers delivering grassroots journalism or programme makers winning national acclaim, the awards highlight the impact the media has on our communities.”
This year’s presentation evening will be held at the AJ Bell Stadium in Salford on Thursday, November 7.
BBC Breakfast’s Louise Minchin and Dave Massey, O2’s Senior Corporate Communications Manager, will host the evening.
The nomination marks a headline-making year for independent publisher Lancashire Business View, which has seen it receive a hat-trick of honours.
The publication triumphed in the ‘news and magazine’ category at the prestigious Prolific North awards.
It received the coveted ‘Contribution to Lancashire’ honour in this year’s Lancashire Business Awards, hosted by Downtown in Business.
And earlier this year the title received the ‘Time to Shine Partnership Award’ from the charity Cash for Kids after its Red Rose Awards raised almost £40,000 for the local good cause since 2016.
The other publications nominated in the O2 specialist publications category are Liverpool Echo’s Business Post, Newsquest Cumbria’s Farmer and the Lancashire Post’s Inspiring Lancashire title.
The Liverpool Echo and ITV Granada Reports both feature strongly in this year’s list of finalists.
There are multiple nominations too for BBC North West Tonight and its sister radio stations, across both news and sports categories, while regionally based programme makers LA Productions and Blakeway North lead the way in entertainment and drama.
See the full shortlist of O2 Media Awards North West 2019 nominees below:
O2 Emerging Talent
Stacey Copeland – ITV Granada Reports
Kerry Parvin – BBC North West Tonight
Josh Stokes - ITV Granada Reports
News Reporter
Amy Fenton – The Mail
Mari Jones – Daily Post
Matt O’Donoghue – ITV Granada Reports
Liam Thorp – Liverpool Echo
Writer
Helen Johnson – Manchester Evening News
Neal Keeling – Manchester Evening News
Roger Lytollis – The Cumberland News
Jimmy McGovern & Gillian Juckes – LA Productions
Paddy Shennan – Liverpool Echo
Rob Smith – ITV Granada Reports
Entertainment Programme
BBC Factual, Salford - Home Front Heroes
BBC Factual, Salford - Watchdog Live
Blakeway North - Greatest Chocolate Adverts
Radio City Talk - Dad’s Hour
True North - Teen Mom UK
Community Newspaper
Saddleworth Independent
Tameside Reporter
Whitehaven News
Video Journalism
Vincent Cole – Manchester Evening News
Global’s Newsroom North West
Dave Guest – BBC North West Tonight
Most Memorable
BBC Radio Lancashire – Seagull Rescue
ITV Granada Reports – Ricky Hatton
Liverpool Echo – Six Stone Man
News Programme
BBC North West Tonight – Police Special
Global’s Newsroom North West – Life After Murder
ITV Granada Reports – Homelessness
ITV Granada Reports – Stalking
ITV Granada Reports – Suicide Special
Documentary
BBC Factual, Salford - Sex Map of Britain
Blakeway North - The Foreign Doctors Are Coming
Blakeway North - ‘My Life, I Will Survive’
Title Role Productions - Paedophile Hunters
Sports Programme
BBC North West Tonight – The Kennedy Who Changed The World
BBC Radio Manchester – Bolton/Bury Special
Global’s Newsroom North West – Champions League Final
ITV Granada Reports – Aintree
Radio Programme
Cheshire Live – ‘Really I’m Fine’
Global’s Newsroom North West – Life After Murder
Global’s Newsroom North West – Right To Die
Radio City – Lost Childhoods
Magazine
Carlisle Living – Newsquest Cumbria
Cheshire Living – Newsquest Cheshire
Cumbria Life - Newsquest Cumbria
Cumbria Magazine – Dalesman Publishing Ltd.
Specialist Publication
Business Post – Liverpool Echo
Farmer – Newsquest Cumbria
Inspiring Lancashire – Lancashire Post
Lancashire Business View
TV Journalist
Abbie Jones – BBC North West Tonight
Dave Guest – BBC North West Tonight
Hannah Miller – ITV Granada Reports
Matt O’Donoghue – ITV Granada Reports
Amy Welch – ITV Granada Reports
Young Journalist (Broadcast)
Charanpreet Khaira – ITV Granada Reports
Kerry Parvin – BBC North West Tonight
Mike Stevens – BBC Radio Lancashire
Layla Wright – Radio City & BBC Radio 4
Young Journalist (Print)
Emilia Bona – Liverpool Echo
Isobel Cotogni – Warrington Guardian
Catherine Murphy – Liverpool Echo
Stephen Topping – Northwich Guardian
Sports Journalist
Jon Colman – News & Star/Cumberland News
Tom Evans – Liverpool Echo
Chris Hall – ITV Granada Reports
Matt Jones – Radio City
Matt Scrafton – The Blackpool Gazette
Drama/Factual Drama
LA Productions - Care
LA Productions - Clink
LA Productions - Moving On
Daily Newspaper
The Blackpool Gazette
Lancashire Post
Liverpool Echo
The Sentinel
Photographer
Steve Bould – The Sentinel
Vincent Cole – Manchester Evening News
Colin Lane – Liverpool Echo
James Maloney – Liverpool Echo
Stuart Walker – News & Star/Cumberland News
On-Line Media
BBC North West Digital Team
Liverpool Echo Live Newsroom
North Wales Live
Community Award
Cheshire Live – Cervical Cancer Campaign
Chorley Guardian – Project Feed Chorley
Hits Radio – Fill Food Banks
The Sentinel – The Way We Were
Broadcast Presenter
Mick Coyle – Radio City
Roger Johnson – BBC North West Tonight
Graham Liver – BBC Radio Lancashire
Tony Morris – ITV Granada Reports
Rachael Bland Vlogger/Blogger Award
Nicola Adam – JPI Media
Sarah Hodgson & Owen Evans – Daily Post
Bethan Shufflebotham – The Sentinel
Samantha Yarwood – Manchester Evening News
Columnist
Nicola Adam – Lancashire Post
Jenny Amphlett – The Sentinel
Mike Hill – Lancashire Post
Sue Lee – Liverpool Echo
Weekly Newspaper
The Cumberland News
Manchester Evening News On Sunday
Northwich Guardian
Westmorland Gazette
Factual Programme
BBC North West Tonight - The Church That Changed
Blakeway North - Who Needs A Man When You’ve Got A Spray Tan?
ITV Studios - 63 UP
Title Role Productions - All Inclusive – Is It Worth It?
Team of the Year
ITV Studios – 63 UP
Liverpool Echo – Champions League
The Sentinel - Commercial Editorial
Radio Journalist
Andy Bell – BBC Radio Manchester
Paul Doward – Radio City
Mike Gaffney – Global’s Newsroom North West
Eloise Linford – Hits Radio
Mike Stevens – BBC Radio Lancashire
