2012 Telkom Classic Business Journalist of the Year Awards

Congratulations to all the winning journalists. Keep up the good work!
2012 Telkom Classic Business Journalist of the Year Awards

Minister of Communications Dina Pule, Overall Winner Stephen Cranston and Telkom Group CEO Pinky Moholi

Financial Mail journalist, Stephen Cranston was named the “2012 Telkom Classic Business Journalist of the Year”.

The R75 000 award and trophy were presented to him by Telkom CEO Pinky Moholi and Minister of Communications Dina Pule at a ceremony in Hyde Park on Wednesday 26th September.

The Journalist of the Year awards are unique to South Africa in that entries do not need to be submitted, but are selected from published financial writing in print and on the internet.

These are the third awards. Last year’s winner was Marc Ashton from Finweek and Fin24.

The judges were Chris Gilmour from Absa Investments and Jeremy Sampson from Interbrand Sampson.

Cranston was commended by the judges for his authoritative coverage of SABMiller and its CEO Graham Mackay. He also won a sectoral award for his coverage of companies, and the monthly award for June.

Duncan McLeod was joint winner in the ICT category for work published in the Financial Mail, alongside Simon Dingle for his work published in Fin24. Bruce Whitfield won the award in the personal finance and money category for his reporting in Finweek. Jan de Lange of Fin24 won in the Economy sector for his article “Eskom mulled buying back”, while Claire Bisseker won the award in the Small and Medium Enterprise sector for an article in the Financial Mail titled “In the shadow”.

Monthly awards were also given out.

Here is a list of all the winners:
Category – Name and Publication
1) Overall winner – Stephen Cranston, Financial Mail
2) Small and Medium Enterprise – Claire Bisseker, Financial Mail
3) ICT – Duncan McLeod, Financial Mail and Simon Dingle, Fin24
4) Personal Finance (Money) – Bruce Whitfield, Finweek
5) Companies – Stephen Cranston, Financial Mail
6) Economy – Jan de Lange, Fin24
7) Monthly: March 2011 – Larry Claasen, Financial Mail
8) Monthly: April 2011 – Jan de Lange, Fin24
9) Monthly: May 2011 – Bruce Whitfield, Finweek
10) Monthly: June 2011 – Stephen Cranston, Financial Mail
11) Monthly: July 2011 – Jan de Lange, Fin24 and Andrew McNulty, Financial Mail
12) Monthly: August 2011 – Brendan Ryan, Finweek
13) Monthly: September 2011 – David Furlonger, Financial Mail
14) Monthly: October 2011 – David McKay, Finweek
15) Monthly: November 2011 – Bruce Whitfield, Finweek
16) Monthly: December 2011 – David Carte, Moneyweb
17) Monthly: January 2012 – Duncan McLeod, Financial Mail
18) Monthly: February 2012 – Lionel Faull and Sam Sole, Mail and Guardian
19) Monthly: March 2012 – Marc Hasenfuss, Financial Mail
 

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