Headlinemoney Awards 2017

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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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