Headlinemoney Awards 2017

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AWARDS 2017
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The B2B Shortlist The Consumer Shortlist
• James Fernyhough,
• Jack Gilbert, New Model Adviser
• John Greenwood, Corporate Adviser
• Stephanie Hawthorne, Freelance – for her work on
Pensions World
• Nick Reeve, Investment & Pensions Europe
• Sam Brodbeck, Daily & Sunday Telegraph
• Josephine Cumbo, Financial Times
• Ruth Emery, The Sunday Times
• Rachel Lacey, How to Retire in Style/Moneywise
• Ruth Lythe, Daily Mail
Pensions Journalist of the Year
Last year’s winner in
the B2B section of this
category, Corporate
Adviser’s John
Greenwood, made it
back-to-back victories
with a submission
which was already
ranked in first place
by the time the judges
sat down to scrutinise
the entries face-to-
face. “John always
comes across as an
authoritative journalist
in a sphere of coverage
where you’ve got to know your subject inside-out,”
one judge commented. “Like any decent journalist, his
submissions demonstrate he goes to several sources
and then produces a balanced view. He produces
detailed analysis of a certain subject and, frankly, I think
he’s head and shoulders above the other entries this
year,” a second panellist remarked.
Initially, things were a
little less clear-cut in the
consumer section of
this award as the judges
had two of the five
shortlisted journalists
a little way ahead of
the pack. After some
in-depth discussion,
it was Josephine
Cumbo from the
Financial Times who
emerged as this year’s
winner. “Josephine is
a worthy winner – she
submitted three really
strong entries including one which I simply hadn’t
seen discussed anywhere else which homed in on
particular issues surrounding the NHS, to one about
cashing in final salary pensions,’ one judge commented.
“Josephine is the FT’s pensions correspondent so her
stories ought to be on point and indeed they were.
There was a good sense of research and she was
also able to tell me things I didn’t know already. That’s
always a winning formula,” another judge suggested.
Winners
John Greenwood, Corporate Adviser (B2B) &
Josephine Cumbo, Financial Times (Consumer)
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