(Picture: Robert Peston (left) receives the Business Journalist of the Year Award from John Neilson of BAE Systems.)
The Business Journalist of the Year Awards were held last night at the Grosvenor hotel in central London.
Widely recognised as the most important global awards for business writers and broadcasters, they are the only awards for business writers that are open to journalists of all nationalities, and the only awards to cover the entire spectrum of business and financial reporting.
Soon after winning Newspaper of the Year at the British Press Awards, the FT took home a raft of awards. John Gapper won Best Communicator, Martin Wolf won Best Commentator, and Mure Dickie took home the award for Best Newspaper Story.
Robert Peston picked up a couple of awards, winning Best Scoop and Business Journalist of the Year, which were thoroughly well deserved (despite Peston being part of the awards' Editors' Committee)
The Daily Telegraph claimed the prize for best breaking news story. Philip Aldrick, Katherine Griffiths and Myra Butterworth won the award for their coverage of the crisis at Northern Rock.
The full list of winners:
- Best Broadcast Story - Martin Shankleman of The BBC
- Best Broadcast Feature - Jeff Randall & Martin Small
- Best Deadline or Breaking News Story - Philip Aldrick, Katherine Griffiths and Myra Butterworth of The Daily Telegraph
- Best Personal Finance Journalist or Team - Victoria Knight of Dow Jones Newswires
- Best Magazine Story - Michael Smith & Carlos Caminda of Bloomberg Markets
- Best Online/Wireservice Journalist or Team - David Dietz & Darrell Preston of Bloomberg News
- Best Communicator - John Gapper of the Financial Times
- Best Commentator - Martin Wolf of the Financial Times
- Best Corporate Journalist or Team - Mike Esterl & David Crawford of The Wall Street Journal Europe
- Best Economics Journalist or Team - Edward Chancellor of Institutional Investor
- Best Finance & Markets Journalist or Team - David Evans of Bloomberg News
- Best Newspaper Story - Mure Dickie of the Financial Times
- Best Scoop - Robert Peston of the BBC
- Business Journalist of the Year - Robert Peston of the BBC
- Decade of Excellence - Hugo Dixon of breakingviews
Friday, 25 April 2008
Business Journalist of the Year Awards
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I take it no-one in the industry actually reads Martin "flip-flopper" Wolf's column then. Otherwise they might have noticed how he spent half a year saying one thing about the possibility of an upcoming credit crunch, then when events proved him wrong (and his critics right) he smoothly moved to saying the opposite thing...
Or perhaps that doesn't matter, after all he does have a good turn of phrase.
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