The Londoner of the Year Award was presented by the Club to Lord Lloyd-Webber for his outstanding contribution to the success story of the West End Theatre which is breaking all records.
The awards ceremony took place in front of a full house of leading media figures at Stationers’ Hall near St Paul’s.
The Daily Mirror was awarded Daily Newspaper of the Year for “regaining its passion and authority” said chairman of the judges Bill Hagerty, publishing "a series of important scoops and vigorous campaigns".
The Mail On Sunday retains the Sunday Newspaper of the Year honour ahead of The Independent on Sunday and The Sunday Times. Presenting the award to Mail on Sunday editor Geordie Greig for the third year running, Bill Hagerty said this was “fully deserved by a paper where journalistic excellence across the board has led to a commercial as well as journalistic success”.
The Sunday Times Insight Team won Scoop of the Year for its Fifa expose, ahead of the same paper’s Trojan Horse reporting and The Mail On Sunday’s ‘62p an hour’ story.
Ally Ross of The Sun was named Reviewer of the Year, sponsored by Skoda, seeing off competition from Craig Brown and Giles Coren for what was the first of four News UK wins.
David Smith of The Sunday Times saw off strong competition from FT trio Ed Crooks, Michael Kavanagh and Gillian Tett to win Business Journalist of the Year, sponsored by UK Power Networks.
Today presenter Mishal Husain was selected as Broadcaster of the Year, ahead of Channel 4 News’ Matt Frei, BBC social affairs correspondent Alison Holt and BBC global health reporter Tulip Mazumdar.
Iain Dale won Blog of the Year, sponsored by Gorkana, seeing off strong competition from Sarah Bitum and David Hepworth.
The second special award of the day went to Times columnist Melanie Reid, who received the Edgar Wallace Trophy for writing or reporting of the highest quality.
