Tift commended at Midlands Media Awards
DUNCAN Tift, deputy editor of TheBusinessDesk.com, was highly commended in last night’s Midlands Media Awards.
Tift, who won the Business Journalist of the Year category at this annual event in 2011, was highly commended in the same category at the ceremony at Villa Park in Birmingham last night. Jon Griffin from Birmingham Post and Mail won the award.
Tift’s commendation was based on a number of pieces he has written for TheBusinessDesk.com in the last 12 months including an exclusive on the launch of the Jaguar F-Type, analysis of the legacy of the regional development agency Advantage West Midlands and a feature on Coventry-based taxi maker Manganese Bronze.
Journalists from all around the Midlands attended the event which is organised by Birmingham Press Club.
One of the event’s main photography awards has been re-named the Tony Flanagan award in memory of the popular local photographer who died earlier this year.
All of those in attendance rose to their feet for a round of applause in honour of ‘Flan’.
Elsewhere, big winners on the night included the Lincolnshire Echo – which won the coveted Newspaper of the Year award – the Coventry Telegraph, whose reporter Les Reid was crowned Journalist of the Year, and the Birmingham Post and Mail Group (BPM) which won a number of awards.
