The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony that will take place at the end of July or early August at a venue in Johannesburg. The Awards are sponsored by Standard Bank and hosted by PDMSA, an umbrella body incorporating print and digital media.
Paula Fray (Convener Judge), David Wightman, Dinnesh Balliah, Gus Silber, Henry Jeffreys
Elizabeth Barratt, Lizeka Mda, Mike Siluma, Tyrone August, Angela Quintal, Mathatha Tsedu
Zubeida Jaffer, Pippa Green, Tim du Plessis, Neo Ntsoma, Liesl Louw-Vaudram, Thabo Leshilo.
| NAME | TITLE | COMPANY | |
| CATEGORY 1: HARD NEWS Runners up / Finalists: | Charné Kemp | “Skok oor beweerde rasvoorval” | Volksblad |
| Beauregard Tromp | “The killing of Emmanuel Sithole” | Sunday Times | |
| CATEGORY 2: COLUMNS / EDITORIAL Runners up / Finalists: | Maygene de Wee | “Die ouma wat geweet het van respek kweek” | Die Burger |
| Sam Mkokeli | “Muthambi an intimation of SA prospects after Zuma” | Business Day | |
| “The blessing and curse of a liberation movement” | |||
| “Gordhan’s return puts a bell on big cat Zuma” | |||
| “Deconstructing rumours of sixth Zuma reshuffle” | |||
| Sipho Kings | “Just admit it, corporate SA: you are killers” | Mail & Guardian | |
| Verashni Pillay | Body of work | Mail & Guardian | |
| “Six things white people have the black people don’t” | |||
| “Don’t leave forgiveness out of SA’s race debate” | |||
| “Zelda don’t be a Victim and let others dictate who you are” | |||
| “(Im)perfect wedding outrage has silver lining” | |||
| CATEGORY 3: ENTERPRISE NEWS Runners up / Finalists: | Lee Rondeganger | “Trapped in levy debt and bullied into buying sectional title flats. Durban’s housing time bomb” | Daily News |
| Kathrine Child, Shaun Smillie & Graeme Hosken | “Dorpies mug us” | The Times | |
| Bongekile Macupe and Zoe Mahopo | “Big Stink” | Sowetan | |
| Cape Argus-Gasant Abarder | “#ShutItDown” | Cape Argus | |
| CATEGORY 4: FEATURE WRITING Runners up / Finalists: | Zeenat Moorad | “Tapping Africa’s fizz” | Financial Mail |
| Carol Paton | “Roses and Thorns in the vineyards” | Business Day | |
| Mia Malan | “Diepsloot: Where men think it’s their right to rape” | Mail & Guardian | |
| Shaun Smillie | "Body of Work" | The Times | |
| “Tell them I screamed, but no one answered” | |||
| “The future is a foreign concept” | |||
| Pieter Steyn | “Vlok wil die minste wees en ander dien” | Beeld | |
| CATEGORY 5: INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM Runners up / Finalists: | Pieter-Louis Myburgh | “Tall Tales- The PRASA SAGA” | Rapport /City Press |
| Lindile Sifile and Thulani Mbele | “Inside Zama Zamas” | Sowetan | |
| Siphe Macanda | “Siyenza Toilet Scandal” | Daily Dispatch | |
| Wilson Mgobhozi | “Self-derailment” | The star | |
| CATEGORY 6: EDITORIAL CARTOONS Runners up / Finalists: | Jonathan Shapiro | “The boy on the beach” | Sunday Times |
| Dr Jack & Curtis | “Munich 1935-2015” | Eyewitness News | |
| Alastair John Findlay | “CEO survives sleep out | eNCA.com | |
| CATEGORY 7: GRAPHIC JOURNALISM Runners up / Finalists: | Andre Gouws and Hanlie Malan | “Google forest: ten years later” | Graphics24/ City Press |
| Wilson Mgobhozi | “Sharing is caring” | Saturday Star | |
| “Madiba’s legacy drive” | |||
| Jaco Grobbelaar | “Monument vir taal” | Die Burger | |
| Matthys Moss | “Lily mine disaster” | Sunday Times | |
| Rudi Louw | “ In Search of a better life” | Graphics24/City Press | |
| CATEGORY 8: POPULAR JOURNALISM Runners up / Finalists: | Prince Chauke | “Zuma dumps MaNtuli” | Sunday Sun |
| Everson Luhanga | “Oscar scores in Jail” | Daily Sun | |
| Aubrey Mothombeni | “Our perfect wedding groom scandal” | Sunday World | |
| Christopher Moagi | “Mob justice” | Daily Sun | |
| CATEGORY 9: NEWS PHOTOGRAPHS Runners up / Finalists: | Felix Dlangamandla | “Attacked” | Beeld |
| Mark Andrews | “#FeesMustFall protest” | Daily Dispatch | |
| James Oatway | “The killing of Emmanuel Sithole” | Sunday Times | |
| Jeffrey Abrahams | “SONA FRACAS” | Cape Times/Independent Media | |
| CATEGORY 10: FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHS Runner up / Finalist: | Conrad Bornman | “In the shadow of the valleys” | Volsblad |
| Nokuthula Mbatha | “Deep in the devil’s drug” | The Star | |
| Simone Kley | “Ballet dancer” | The Star | |
| CATEGORY 11: SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHS Runners up/ Finalists: | Alon Skuy | “Lesotho- Ski Escape” | The Times |
| “Worth the weight” | |||
| Thulani Mbele | “In the heart of Mokopane” | Sowetan | |
| CATEGORY 12: PRESENTATION Runners up / Finalists: | Nelandri Narianan | ”Face of our past” | The Star |
| Theuns Kruger | “The #trending guide to the Joburg Art Fair” | City Press | |
| Jan Morgenrood | Body of Work | City Press | |
| CATEGORY 13: MULTI PLATFORM Runners up / Finalists: | Bianca Ackroyd, Malungelo Booi and Thuthuka Zondi | “Eight days in Nepal” | eNCA.com |
| Elsabe Brits, Debrée Kluge and Gys Visser | “HOMO Naledi –Pakket” | Netwerk24 (Die Burger, Beeld, Volksblad) | |
| CATEGORY 14: MULTIMEDIA Runners up / Finalists: | Jessica Mulder, Simon Stephens,Lebohang Mashiloane, Neil Raath, Andy van Eeden and Anastasya Eliseeva | “Hope to Glory” | eNCA.com |
| Jurg Slabbert and Le Roux Schoeman | Body of work | Netwerk24 | |
| “#SONA2015” | |||
| “SA Sokkerbase se swyg-strategie: So het $10 m-skenking gewerk” | |||
| “#topstories:’Die Bybel se niks oor gay-verhoudings” |
