New Zealand's best print and digital reporters have gathered in Wellington for the 42nd annual Canon Media Awards.
This year the awards were hosted at Te Papa National Museum, with 450 people attending the black-tie dinner.
With a potential merger on the cards for NZME and Fairfax, this could be the last time the two major players go head-to-head.
And it was NZME who took out the Reporter of the Year award, with the New Zealand Herald's Matt Nippert taking the honours.
"I just try to tease away at issues no one else is looking at," Nippert says. "The fact that other people think these neglected areas are worthy of interest, and indeed accolades, is extraordinary."
Other winners include the Waikato Times picking up both Newspaper of the Year and Weekly Newspaper of the Year due to its "ambition, bold design and provocative journalism aimed directly at its readership".
Rotorua Daily Post's Stephen Parker was awarded Photographer of the Year and North & South's Mike White won Feature Writer of the Year.
Tommy Livingston was honoured as the top Student Journalist of the Year.
More than 7000 pieces were submitted to the awards and Canon New Zealand's managing director Kim Conner says the high standards was a great display of New Zealand journalism.
"On behalf of Canon, I am thrilled to congratulate all the worthy recipients acknowledged at this year's Canon Media Awards," Ms Conner says.
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