Times-Age journalist an awards

Wairarapa Times-Age journalist Matt Stewart is one of the best newspaper columnists in the country and that's official.
Stewart was this week named as a finalist in the APN newspapers Columnist of the Year awards, narrowly missing out to another Times-Age columnist, Roger Moroney.
Moroney, who works for Hawke's Bay Today, won the award for the second year in a row.
The awards are judged from entries from all APN-owned dailies and community newspapers throughout New Zealand and attract hundreds of entries in various categories.
Stewart is in his first year working as a fulltime journalist and was stoked by making the finals.
His column, Matt Time, appears every Wednesday in the Times-Age.
Appropriately, we had to photograph a triumphant Stewart this week atop a column &