A FORMER Student Direct editor is up for two prizes at a prestigious journalism awards ceremony.
Stewart Maclean, now at the Daily Mirror, has been nominated for 'Best Young Journalist' and 'Best Scoop' at the 2008 British Press Awards.
The awards have been described as 'the Oscars of British journalism.'
Maclean was Editor of Britain's largest student newspaper in the 2003-4 academic year, and was runner-up in the 2004 Guardian Student Media awards in the 'Student Reporter of the Year' category.
He has been nominated for his breaking story of 'Canoe Man' John Darwin, the former teacher who turned up alive in December 2007, five years after he was thought to have died in a canoeing accident.
All the short listed entrants were decided by 100 judges drawn from all the national newspapers, the regional press and independent figures from the world of journalism.
The awards bash takes place on 8th April at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London.
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