News International picked up 9 gongs at last night’s British Press Awards, including Foreign Reporter of the Year and Showbiz Reporter of the Year.

Marie Colvin, foreign affairs correspondent for The Sunday Times, won Foreign Reporter of the Year, one of three prizes for the title. Sunday’s leading quality paper also took Business and Finance Journalist of the Year (Iain Dey) and Camilla Long, pictured, picked up Interviewer of the Year.

The judges said Dey "provided the lay readers with an insight into the inner workings of the banking industry which few more serious analysis writers matched."

Mike Atherton collected his second award in three weeks for Sports Journalist of the Year, having picked up the Sports Writer of the Year award at the Sports Journalists' Association awards at the start of the month.

The judges said this was "a unanimous choice", praising the former England cricket captain for "tackling subjects way beyond cricket" in his column in The Times. They added "the brilliance of his writing shines."

Cartoonist of the Year went to Peter Brookes for the third time and Caitlin Moran picked up Columnist of the Year.

The Times's Sheera Frenkel picked up the first gong of the night, Young Journalist of the Year. The judges said that Sheera's reports "showed bravery and expertise in a hostile and dangerous environment" and had a "global impact." Miles Amoore of The Sunday Times was highly commended in the same category.

Digital Innovation was won by SunTalk, beating The Guardian's iPhone app. SunTalk presenter Jon Gaunt says: "We don’t need Ofcom, we’ve got an off switch", a reference to the digital radio station's position as an unregulated broadcaster.

Dan Wootton, News of the World, picked up Showbiz Reporter of the Year. In their citation, judges said he produced an "old fashioned showbiz scoop of the highest order delivered straight out of his contacts book."

As predicted by many, The Daily Telegraph picked up an array of awards for the paper's coverage of the MPs' expenses scandal, including Newspaper of the Year, Campaign of the Year and Scoop of the Year.  Editor Will Lewis collected the Journalist of the Year prize and the title also won Political Journalist of the Year and Special Supplement of the Year.