Call for Nominations: BIBA Journalist and Media Awards (UK)

Categories

• Consumer Champion Award: Open to consumer or money journalists tackling readers’ insurance based problems and complaints.
• Story of the Year Award: Open to national, insurance trade and regional journalists for the best insurance story of the year.
• London or International Award: Open to any journalist for the best, most informative article about the London or international insurance market.
• Scoop of the Year Award: Open to any journalist who was responsible for researching, breaking, and writing an important insurance news story first.
• Best Consumer or Business Award: Open to national and regional journalists for the best all round article examining insurance issues for consumers or businesses including the investigation, research and overall explanation of a general insurance subject that raises awareness for individual or business consumers of insurance.
• Best Trade Award: Open to journalists who have written an article, feature or news item including the investigation, research, and overall explanation of a general insurance subject in the insurance trade press.
• Most Promising Newcomer Award: Open to any journalist who started to write or broadcast on insurance matters during the last 18 months.
• Best Interview or Profile Award: Open to any journalist or podcaster who has researched and developed the most informative and most engaging interview with an individual or profile of an organisation within the insurance industry.
• Best Thought Leadership Award: Open to any journalist who has written an in-depth, opinion-led piece that shapes or provokes debate in the insurance industry.
• Best Investigation Award: Open to any journalist who has thoroughly investigated, researched, and presented in any medium an insurance issue to increase the understanding of it.
• Best Digital or Broadcast Award: Open to any journalist or media outlet who has creatively used digital or broadcast channels to further the understanding of insurance to their audience.
• Best Innovation Award: Open to any journalist who has written about innovation or a technological advancement in insurance.
• Best Publication Award (judged and presented by BIBA, no entries necessary): Awarded to the publication or team that has in the BIBA judges’ opinion best presented insurance matters in the course of the year.

Prize Information

• National, regional and trade journalists are eligible to enter 12 categories each one carrying a prize of £800 for the winner. Judges will have the discretion to make a Highly Commended Award of £250.

Eligibility Criteria

• Journalists can enter a maximum of three award categories including entries made as part of a team.
• Podcasts must be no longer than 35 minutes.
• Written articles must ideally be no longer than 3000 words.
• Only send links to open source websites and not those that are password protected. Where necessary please supply these as a PDF attachment.
• All entries (except Most Promising Newcomer Award and Consumer Champion Award which require two articles) must consist of only one general insurance article, broadcast recording or campaign.
• Most Promising Newcomer Award and Consumer Champion Award require two general insurance articles or broadcast recordings.

Judging Criteria

• The judges will look for entries which raise awareness and understanding of general insurance subjects and help the audience to gain a greater insight into general insurance issues. Originality, style, quality of research and investigation will also be assessed.

Application Requirements

• Upload JPEG, PDF files or word documents. Maximum file size is 300MB per piece.
• Video entries may be hosted on a video site such as YouTube or Vimeo.
• In order to help the judges understand the background of the article entered, journalists can submit a supporting statement of up to 150 words explaining why their article deserves to win. This will help to ensure that all factors are taken into consideration during the judging process.
• A supporting statement is compulsory for the following categories:
  • The Most Promising Newcomer Award requires the journalist’s editor/producer to supply a supporting statement only.
  • The Scoop of the Year Award requires the journalist to explain in their supporting statement how they achieved the scoop story through investigative journalism.
  • The Best Investigation Award requires the journalist to explain their methodology, reasons and results.
  • The Best digital or Broadcast Award requires the journalist to supply a supporting statement.

For more information, visit BIBA.