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AWARDS
2017
Rising Star of the Year
(B2B)
Winner
Jack Gilbert, New Model Adviser
This category, with its onus on showcasing the
best of the youngest talent doing the B2B rounds
on the UK’s financial journalism circuit, is often
a springboard to bigger and better things for
the winning journalist. From the outset, in the
opinion of the judges two of the five names on
the shortlist pulled a little way clear of their rivals
and in the end it was New Model Adviser’s
Jack
Gilbert
who scooped the overall honours.
“I liked Jack’s submissions which demonstrated
a good investigative approach to reporting – no
mean feat for someone relatively new to covering
as complicated an industry as the financial
services marketplace,” one judge commented.
“Here is a journalist who is full of potential and
whose writing style will doubtless blossom further
with time,” a second judge remarked. “Jack
may be reasonably new to the beat, but he’s
already squeezing his contact book to the max,
a characteristic which is so important if you’re
going to do a great job covering this sector for
a clued-up and professional readership,” a third
panellist pointed out.
The Shortlist
•
Christine Dawson,
New Model Adviser
•
James Fernyhough,
FTAdviser.com•
Jack Gilbert,
New Model Adviser
•
Jonathan Jones,
FE Trustnet
•
Kuba Shand-Baptiste,
Money Management
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