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2008 Journalist of the Year Award Winner
Cassandra Jardine and Mike Graham
Our Journalist of the Year Award was won by Daily Telegraph’s senior feature writer Cassandra Jardine. Cassandra 's health feature ‘A diet to ease the trauma of epilepsy’ highlighted this unusual culinary treatment which can help children with difficult seizures. Sara and David Garland created a charity in memory of their daughter Daisy who benefited from this high fat regime but sadly later died from epilepsy. This human interest story told with technical skill found favour with award judges novelist Kate Atkinson, BBC broadcaster Jackie Bird, Radio 1 DJ Edith Bowman, Talk 107 Programme Director Mike Graham, and Scottish NUJ representative, Paul Holleran.
Award runner-up Emma Burstall gave a moving account of living with epilepsy in her ‘Woman and Home’ feature ‘I dread losing control but people’s reactions are often harder to bear’.
