Financial Mail awards

Financial Mail featured prominently in the 2008 Headlinemoney.co.uk awards:  Stephen Womack was named General Insurance Writer of the Year for his authoritative work on flooding, home risk management and uninsured driving.  It is the third time Stephen has won the award in the last five years, the criteria being expertise, dogged determination to explore all angles and to be able to write in a succinct and entertaining way. The judges were full of praise: “He makes insurance stories real, providing true-life examples” and concluded, after a rigorous judging process: “It couldn’t really go to anyone else.”

Personal finance editor, Jeff Prestridge, was commended in the Pension Writer of the Year category for "having had a big impact on the pensions scene, not least in government circles"  and also shortlisted for the Consumer Columnist award. Deputy PF editor, Richard Dyson was runner-up in the Consumer Journalist of the Year category, praised by the judges for "pursuing angles often ignored by other journalists";  PF writer Helen Loveless also featured in the top three of the Protection Writer of the Year and Readers' Champion, Tony Hetherington was one of three candidates shortlisted for Consumer Champion of the Year.
Associated's Thisismoney website was runner-up for the Financial Website of the Year prize. Judges felt that "from a consumer's point of view you can't go wrong with it."

Headlinemoney.co.uk is an online resource for financial services companies and brings together the UK industry with the key financial journalists in the marketplace. This is the sixth year of the awards.