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AWARDS 2017

General Insurance Journalist of the Year

Winners Charlie Thomas, The Insurance Insider (B2B) & Rebecca Rutt, ThisisMoney.co.uk (Consumer)

In the B2B section of this category, a pair of journalists from the original five shortlisted names emerged as front-runners from the online scoring phase. Following close deliberation by the judges, Insurance Insider’s Charlie Thomas emerged as the winner thanks in part to her ability to “demonstrate a strong contact book,

By contrast, in the consumer section of this award and with a strong quintet of entries the judges found it hard from the outset to highlight an obvious winner. After much debate Rebecca Rutt from ThisisMoney.co.uk emerged victorious for an entry which they agreed was consistently good across the board. “This

tell great stories and produce genuinely interesting articles,” according to one of the judges. “I loved Charlie’s Dubai article. Throughout her submission she did what any strong trade journalist ought to be doing which is telling her readers about things they wouldn’t necessarily have known about already,” a fellow judge remarked.

was the strongest mix of work on show and also made plenty of use of figures and graphs to bring stories to life for the reader,” one judge commented. Another concurred, adding “I really liked the Airbnb story. Rebecca’s experience shines through on items like this and also her writing has a really nice tone to it which must play well with readers.”

The B2B Shortlist

The Consumer Shortlist

• Ida Axling, Insurance Age • Michèle Bacchus, Insurance Post • Stephanie Denton, Insurance Post • Rosie Quigley, Insurance Post • Charlie Thomas, The Insurance Insider

• James Andrews, Mirror Online • Victoria Bischoff, Money Mail • Anna Jordan, loveMONEY • Amelia Murray, The Telegraph • Rebecca Rutt, ThisisMoney.co.uk

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