Headlinemoney Awards 2017

AWARDS 2017

Nominations, New Awards & Judging

The 2017 Headlinemoney Awards celebrate editorial excellence and top-flight communications from around the world of financial services media. This year’s event features a handful of new awards. In the journalism categories, for example, we’ve added a savings trophy as well as one for digital innovation. In the PR section we’ve added an agency of the year award for external PR firms to sit alongside a separate prize which recognises the work of in- house press offices. The thought leadership initiative became self-nominating for the first time and very popular it proved. As usual with our PR/comms awards, it’s only financial journalists who get to have their say making the results even more noteworthy and the prizes sweeter to receive. In contrast, last winter Headlinemoney’s entire universe of users was able to vote for the financial journalists and media outlets which they believed produced the most outstanding levels of work throughout the calendar year 2016.

With voting complete, shortlists of the top five names in each awards category were compiled. Making it on to a shortlist is no mean feat in itself. There are often dozens of names in the running before the shortlists determine the final contenders. In the journalism and media outlet categories, shortlisted names are invited to submit examples of work along with a supporting statement ready for the second phase of judging. Judging panels comprising leading financial journalists, communications experts, and senior figures from the financial services industry, then scrutinise the submissions, provide online rankings and meet face- to-face to decide the eventual winners. The judges put a great deal of effort into this process. Armed with a set of judging criteria, some create their own scoring system. Many attend the judging sessions with copious notes and strong views.

After much debate the winners are decided; they can be proud of their achievements!

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