Media Scrum would like to congratulate all the winners, and all those who were nominated. It's a formidable collection of great journos - the investigative reporter category alone is filled with absolute blinding talents - and a great indication of the brilliance filling the country's newsrooms. You're all stars.
(Well, maybe not Ben Mack...)
Still, we're all about the invisible hand behind the bylines here at Media Scrum, and we'd also like to take the opportunity to thank a bunch of other people in this godforsaken industry, who are doing the job every bloody day, and won't be stepping up on no awards podium anytime soon.
These include:
* Online editors who read through and sub everything that comes through their digital desk, come up with a decent headline, find an acceptably eye-catching photo, make sure any questionable facts are sorted out, place it on a homepage, and then get told off by colleagues in their own organisation for taking so long to copy and paste their brilliant prose.
* All the presenters and producers on the non-6pm news shows, getting entire shows out, despite being left with all the resources of a high school media class, and have to fill in when the big kids go dancing.
* Everyone who has ever had to ring around all the police and fire stations at five in the morning.
* Anybody who has had to take the handwritten notes of somebody far too important to ever touch a keyboard, and transfer it into award-winning columns which are mainly about an actress the writer really likes.
* All the subs and designers and proof readers and editors who spend all day making sure the apostrophe in "it's" is in the right place, and that it's always "more than" rather than "over".
* The social media editors who would love to come to your thing, but just need to get this tweet out, and check those comments, and figure out why everybody is saying that headline is problematic, and get that Instagram story going, and....
* Any and all autocue operators - don't worry kids, you'll be on the other side of the camera soon enough.
* Loaders.
* And above all, any poor bastard who is stuck in the newsroom tonight, doing the work, while their colleagues are out getting fucked up and patting each other on the backs. Good job, everybody. We hope you got some pizza at least.
Love,
Media Scrum
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