HAROLD WINCOTT PRESS AWARDS FOR 2009
Nominations are invited by mid-February 2010 for the four awards the Foundation will be making for work that has made a distinctive contribution to public awareness and understanding of economic, financial and business life. These are:
Senior Financial Journalist of the Year £2,000
which is open to any journalist writing on economic, financial and business affairs;
* The Press Panel will consider entries from regular columnists or commentators who may not be on the full-time staff of the journal concerned.
Young Financial Journalist of the Year £1,000
who must have been under the age of 28 on 31st December 2009;
Personal Financial Journalist of the Year £1,500
Online Journalism (blog or website)
Awards 1-3
The criteria for the three individual press awards are not cut and dried. The judges are looking for the ability to analyse and interpret, controversially if necessary, as well as to report.All nominations will be considered. In an attempt to make the task for the judges more manageable, editors are asked to submit no more than three names in any one category. It would also be helpful if views were summarised of nominees’ strengths and achievements.
The Trustees are particularly keen to encourage younger financial journalists, several of whom have proceeded to the senior award. The panel was particularly delighted to see the quality of entries in 2008.
The panel will be considering nominations in March, and entries should be sent to the Secretary no later than 15th February 2010.
Nominations should be accompanied by up to half a dozen representative examples of the work of the journalist concerned published in 2009. The aim is to keep the procedure simple; there are no formal application forms and a covering letter is all that is required.
Award 4
The field of online journalism is extremely wide and extending all the time. As a result no specific criteria have been set. Any entry will be accepted provided it is (exclusively) published online, is UK based, and meets the core objectives of the Wincott Foundation i.e. it contributes to a wider understanding of economic, financial and business life. Both blogs and websites will be considered. Only electronic entries will be accepted for this category.
Nominations for the online award should be sent to the Secretary by the end of February, and must be accompanied by five examples of the blog or website published during 2009. Entries should be in Word or pdf format if at all possible. Otherwise website references and access details should be provided.