Awards
In 2009, Derbyshire won the Nick Clarke Award for her handling of an interview with a man accused and then cleared of date rape.
In September 2010 she interviewed her own 5 Live boss about why he wasn't moving to MediaCityUK in Salford when the station moved in Autumn '11. Describing the interview, The Guardian said: "Derbyshire's grilling of the station's controller Adrian Van Klaveren made Jeremy Paxman's infamous interview with Mark Thompson look like a vicar's tea party."
At the Sony Awards, May 2011, Derbyshire won the Gold award for Best News & Current Affairs Programme. She also won silvers in the Speech Broadcaster of the Year category & in the Speech Programme category.
At the Sony Awards 2012 she beat Jenni Murray, Evan Davies and Jeremy Vine to become the Sony Academy's Speech Broadcaster of the Year.
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