(part of Northern & Shell). Their titles include The Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday, the Daily Express and the Sunday Express, the Daily Star, the London Evening Standard and Metro, though the Express Group's boycott started when it was bought by Richard Desmond in 2000. One of the concerns is over the new owners of Press Gazette, the organisation behind the awards, Piers Morgan and Matthew Freud. The neutrality of Freud has been questioned given his marriage to Rupert Murdoch's daughter and his PR business's deals with News International. However, to reconcile his critics, Matthew Freud has appointed a new Chairman of the Judges, Charles Wilson, and implemented changes to the judging process to promote transparency and fairness. Now there are only 21 awards, none of which are privately sponsored, and the ceremony is earlier in the evening so as to encourage sobriety. Simon Kelner, editor of The Independent, said that "a lot of the concerns I had with the organisation of the awards have been addressed. Anyway, there's not a viable alternative". Simon Lewis, corporate affairs director at Vodafone, the new sponsor, says, "We are delighted to be able to work with Press Gazette to celebrate the best of British journalism," despite the fact that his brother Will Lewis, deputy editor of The Daily Telegraph, is boycotting the awards. Category shortlists The following lists the shortlists published February 26, 2006. (Winner in bold) (Blue numbered boxes to the right of the nominations contain external links to relevant web pages) National Newspaper of the Year The Guardian The Independent News of the World The Observer The Times Reporter of the Year Oliver Harvey (The Sun) Felicity Lawrence (The Guardian) Stephen Moyes (Daily Mirror) Andrew Norfolk (The Times) Nicholas Timmins (Financial Times) Foreign Reporter of the Year Ghaith Abdul-Ahad (The Guardian) Patrick Cockburn (The Independent) Hala Jaber (The Sunday Times) Richard Lloyd Parry (The Times) Jonathan Watts (The Guardian) Scoop of the Year Francis Elliott (Independent on Sunday) "Blunkett broke Rules" Jamie Pyatt (The Sun) "Harry the Nazi" Robert Jobson (Freelance/Evening Standard) "Charles & Camilla to wed" Stephen Moyes (Daily Mirror) "Cocaine Kate" Michael Smith (The Sunday Times) "Blair - War leak" Columnist of the Year Jeremy Clarkson (The Sunday Times) Anatole Kaletsky (The Times) Lucy Kellaway (Financial Times) George Monbiot (The Guardian) Jane Moore (The Sun) Tony Parsons (Daily Mirror) Political Journalist