ECHO reporter Jon Austin has won another journalism award.
The political and investigations reporter won the Creative East Awards 2008 Best Exclusive Story category against TV, radio and newspaper regional journalists across the East of England.
Jon picked up the accolade for his investigation, Travellers: the Truth, which exposed links between travellers fighting to stay at Crays Hill and homes elsewhere in the country.
Judges at the event, hosted by TV presenter Clive Anderson, described Jon's entry as "a superb piece of investigative journalism".
He beat off tough competition, including an entry by Mark Nicholls of the Eastern Daily Press, who wrote about time he spent with local soldiers in Afghanistan.
Jon was named Best Reporter on a Daily Paper at the EDF East of England Journalism Awards in January and won the same category a year earlier.
He was the national Press Gazette Daily Reporter of the Year last year.
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