JOURNALISTS and photographers from The Northern Echo have been nominated in this year's Regional Press Awards.
The Press Gazette-sponsored awards honour the finest the regional press has to offer. The Northern Echo has emerged with no fewer than seven nominations.
They include Mike Amos in the sports journalist of the year category, Chris Booth, Sarah Nicholson and Stuart Boulton for sports photographer of the year, Lauren Pyrah for multimedia journalist of the year, Owen Amos for the feature writer of the year, and Julia Breen for business and financial journalist of the year.
Chairman of the judges, Peter Sands, a former editor of The Northern Echo, said: "We have had double the number of entries that we had last year, which is an indication that the regional press is alive and well."
The winners will be announced at London's Lancaster Hotel, on June 13
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