The five categories open for entry include
Business and Companies;
Economy;
Financial Markets;
Consumer Financial Education; and the
African Growth Story.
The African Growth Story category is open to all African journalists who practice on the continent and whose work is published and/or broadcast in Africa.
Click here for entry forms, criteria and other detailed information about the Awards.
Adjudication of the entries is scheduled from the middle of March 2016. Former
Saturday Star editor and managing director of the media training company, frayintermedia, Paula Fray, will join the judging panel this year.
The award-winning Fray has worked in media for more than two decades as a journalist, editor, trainer and media manager. She brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the judging panel, having trained journalists and travelled across the African continent for a number of years.
Fray joins Charles Naudé, a retired editor; Caroline Southey, the editor of
The Conversation Africa; Franz Krüger, adjunct professor of journalism at the University of the Witwatersrand; Prof Nixon Kariithi, founder of Tangaza Africa Media; Maud Motanyane of Kagiso Media; Ulrich Joubert, an independent economist; and Jabulani Sikhakhane, the deputy editor of
The Conversation Africa.
The judging panel will evaluate entries based on news value, impact, rigour in reporting, analytical value, originality, integrity, specialist knowledge and story-telling.
For more information,
visit the website.