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Awards
The Financial Times (FT) is one of the world's leading business news and information organisations. Discover the many prestigious awards won by our publications, journalists and applications. For details of earlier awards, contact kristina.eriksson@ft.com.
FT.com section wins ‘Personal Finance Website of the Year’ as FT earns several other prizes and nominations
Over the past week, the Financial Times and FT.com have been honoured with the following awards and recognitions, praising everything from its personal finance journalism to its innovative audience measurement metrics:
-FT.com’s Personal Finance section was awarded Personal Finance Website of the Year at the Headline Money Awards. In addition, the site’s Money Matters posts and interactive content were highly commended in the ‘Blog of the Year’ and ‘Best Use of Social Media’ categories.
Tanya Powley, the FT’s personal finance reporter, was also highly commended in the ‘Mortgage Journalist of the Year’ category.
-Towers Watson recognized Andrew Hill, the FT’s associate and management editor, as ‘National Media HR Journalist of the Year’ in the annual Excellence in HR Journalism Awards.
-The FT has also been nominated for two New Media Age awards, recognising the best ways interactive media is used to deliver tangible business results to an organisation. The FT was nominated in the ‘Best Use of Mobile’ and ‘Special Award for Technological Innovation’ categores. Winners will be announced on June 28.
-Two FT research projects have been shortlisted by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) in their annual awards. The FT’s Average Daily Global Audience (ADGA) Measurement is short-listed in the ‘Audience Measurement’ category, and the FT Integration Initiative is short-listed in the “Cross Media’ category. Winners will be announced at the IAB Europe Interact Congress on May 30.
Financial Times and ProPublica win prestigious Overseas Press Club Award
The Overseas Press Club (OPC) of America honoured the Financial Times and ProPublica’s Tax Wars series with the 2011 ‘best online investigation’ prize in its annual awards ceremony in New York last night.
OPC award judges “were impressed by this illuminating account of how banks took advantage of gaps in two countries’ tax laws and how the US government lost billions in the process. The four part series also delved into how a simple rule change, meant by the US treasury to cut paperwork, turned into one of the biggest international tax breaks around. Interactive graphics and charts made this four-part series even more compelling.”
Lionel Barber, editor-in-chief of the FT, commented: “The ‘Tax Wars’ series, one facet of a broader political debate in the US and UK over corporate profits, tax fairness and global competition, illustrates how the FT uses cross-platform reporting to illustrate an opaque yet vital news topic to its global audience. We are honoured to receive this recognition from the OPC.”
Contributors to the series included the FT’s Vanessa Houlder, Megan Murphy, Benjamin Freese, Johanna Kassel and Christine Spolar, and ProPublica’s Jeff Gerth and Tom Detzel.
Previously, “Tax Wars” won two Society of American Business Editor and Writers (SABEW) Best in Business Awards in the “investigative” and “creative use across multiple platforms” categories.
How To Spend It wins prize at Newspaper Awards
The FT’s How To Spend It was honoured at the Newspaper Awards 2012 by taking home the National Colour Supplement of the Year prize. It is the 12th year that the publication has won in this category.
The judges said How To Spend It is “attractive and aspirational. Every page could be described as a separate piece of artwork….All print should aspire to this”.
Financial Times wins Bronze prize at WAN-IFRA Asia Media Awards
The Financial Times wins a Bronze Award at the WAN-IFRA Asia Media Awards 2012 in Bali on 11 April. The prize was for Jonathan Soble’s Olympus reporting in the Best in Editorial Awards – Newspaper Breaking News category.
The Asia Media Awards recognize outstanding work in the fields of Printing Quality, Design, Infographics, Editorial content and Photography among media in Asia Pacific.
Financial Times Web App and the How To Spend It iPad App nominated for Webby Awards
Two FT mobile apps – the FT Web App (in the “news- handheld devices” category) and the How To Spend It iPad app (in the “lifestyle- tablet and other device” category) – have been named finalists in the 16th annual Webby Awards competition!
Anyone can vote for these entries in the Webby’s People’s Voice competition, which is determined by popular vote. Cast your vote for the FT by April 26 here: http://pv.webbyawards.com.
In addition, FT.com and the FT A-List were named official honorees in the “website- news” and “blog- business” categories, respectively.
Financial Times wins 5 Property Press Awards
The FT was honoured with 5 awards from the LSL Property Press Awards, which celebrate the top achievements of property journalists from across the UK. Tanya Powley was recognised for her outstanding work in 2011 with three individual awards including the overall property journalist of the year prize. The FT received the gold award in the following categories:
- Consumer Mortgage Writer of the Year – Tanya Powley
- International Property Journalist of the Year – Tanya Powley
- Overall Property Journalist of the Year – Tanya Powley
- Lifestyle/Interiors Property Writer of the Year - Lucy Warwick-Ching
- National Newspaper Property Supplement of the Year award - House & Home (joint winner)
FT Web App wins Global Mobile Award for Innovation
The Financial Times has been awarded the prestigious Best Mobile Innovation for Publishing prize for its Web App at today’s Global Mobile Awards in Barcelona. The prize recognizes excellence in developing innovative mobile material, highlighting the rapid evolution of the printed word to digital media on mobile handsets and tablet devices.
Since its launch in June 2011 the FT Web App has seen over 1.3 m visitors with over half having bookmarked it to their home screen. The FT was the first major news publisher to launch an app of this type, which uses HTML5 technology and allows users to download directly from the browser.
FT.com MD, Rob Grimshaw, said: “We are delighted with the success of the FT Web App, which has been embraced equally enthusiastically by both our readers and the global mobile community. This award recognises the FT’s mobile leadership and groundbreaking strategy and will be a catalyst for more exciting FT mobile innovation. Mobile is an increasingly important channel for the FT, driving 15% of subscriptions and 20% of traffic to FT.com.”
Key features of the FT Web App include continual and automatic content downloads and improvements and the ability to read offline. It can be downloaded directly from app.ft.com and ensures that FT customers can access FT content anytime, anywhere, on a PC and multiple devices, with one login and one subscription payment.
The GMC award follows the success of the FT’s initial iPad App, which won an Apple Design Award in 2010 for technical excellence, innovation, technology adoption and quality.
Financial Times tops SABEW Best in Business journalism competition with nine awards
FT Magazine also honoured with four SND Best of News Design prizes
NEW YORK: 22 February 2012: The Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) has awarded the Financial Times with nine prizes, the most given to any one news outlet, in its annual Best in Business contest. The competition, which recognises the year’s finest business news coverage and commentary, generated over 1,000 entries from leading news organisations, making 2011 the most competitive year in the history of the contest.
Gillian Tett, US Managing Editor of the FT, commented: “In a year marked by continued financial and economic upheaval, FT journalists from New York to Brussels to Tokyo worked tirelessly to provide unrivalled, high-quality news and analysis for our loyal readers. It is a true honour for all of us to see this work recognised by SABEW and our industry peers.”
The Financial Times won in the following categories:
- “General Excellence” (Newspaper) – Financial Times, http://www.ft.com/
- “Feature” – “Madoff spins his story” (Contributors: David Gelles and Gillian Tett), http://on.ft.com/xXWI8s
- “Commentary” – John Gapper, http://www.ft.com/gapper
- “Commentary” (International) – Wolfgang Münchau, http://www.ft.com/munchau
- “Breaking News” (International) – “The eurozone crisis” (Contributors: FT reporters), http://www.ft.com/intl/indepth/euro-in-crisis
- “Breaking News” (International) – “The Olympus Accounting Scandal” (Contributors: Jonathan Soble, Louise Lucas, Lindsay Whipp), http://www.ft.com/olympus
- “Investigative” (International) and “Creative Use Across Multiple Platforms” (International) – “Tax Wars Series” (Contributors: Christine Spolar, Jeff Gerth (ProPublica), Megan Murphy, Vanessa Houlder, Johanna Kassel, Benjamin Freese), http://www.ft.com/taxwars
- “Blog” (International) – FT Alphaville http://ftalphaville.ft.com/
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FT Magazine was also awarded four prizes in the Society for News Design’s (SND) “Best of News Design” competition, recognising excellence in visual journalism.
Caroline Daniel, editor of FT Weekend, said: “These awards reinforce the success of the FT Weekend magazine redesign, completed in late 2010. Never before has the magazine’s aesthetic and editorial vision been so finely intertwined, with beautifully-designed content, stunning and original photography and illustration, and a strong sense of intelligence, wit and liveliness. We are extremely proud to be honoured by the SND.”
These honours were:
- “Magazines: overall design” – “FT Magazine” http://www.ft.com/magazine, Silver Award
- “Magazines: features/cover story design” – “The astronauts of planet earth” http://on.ft.com/yzQzDB, Award of Excellence
- “Magazines: features/inside page design” – “Aerotropolis” http://on.ft.com/xFVPI6, Award of Excellence
- “Magazines: news/cover story design” – “Japan: the aftermath” http://on.ft.com/zxackq, Award of Excellence
Further information about SABEW’s Best in Business Contest can be found online at http://www.sabew.org, and information on the SND competition is at http://www.snd.org
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Gillian Tett named Business Communicator of the Year 2012 by the UK Speechwriters’ Guild
Gillian Tett, US Managing Editor of the Financial Times, has been recognized by the UK Speechwriters’ Guild as Business Communicator of the Year 2012, for her compelling explanation of the financial crisis and its aftermath.
The judges applauded Tett for her authoritative and comprehensive coverage and said: “Gillian Tett had the courage to speak out about what was going wrong in the financial system and the skill to explain how it happened.”
“She makes simple analogies everyone can understand (comparing derivatives to sausages). She tells stories involving human beings acting at specific times in specific places,” they continued.
Tett’s use of social anthropology in financial journalism was also praised by the judges: “It is particularly pleasing to see someone with a PhD in social anthropology making a mark with much wider audiences than those in academia.”
Past recipients include; Geoff Burch, the author and motivational speaker and Sir Martin Broughton, Chairman of British Airways.
More information about the UK Speechwriters’ Guild is available at http://www.ukspeechwritersguild.co.uk/
FT Live scoops two IVCA LiveCom Awards
The Financial Times’ FT Live division took home three honours at the IVCA LiveCom Awards last week. The IVCA LiveCom Awards recognise excellence in the production of live and experiential events both in the UK and worldwide.
FT Live received the top honour in two categories and were highly commended in another for their management of the FT’s Global Commercial Conference. They were awarded:
- Winner: UK – Internal Experience
- Winner: International – Internal Experience
- Highly commended: Special Events - Award for Motivation and Inspiration
For the full list of winners please click here.