Ashton (@zamarcashton) was commended by the judges for his authoritative coverage of the small business sector and also for an analysis of the technology interests of business tycoon Johann Rupert. He also won a sectoral award for his coverage of small business.
Techcentral founder and editor Duncan McLeod (@mcleodd) won the ICT category for a series of columns published on Techcentral and in the Financial Mail (FM), and FM's Larry Claasen was joint winner in personal finance and money category for his reporting on IT in the Cape, alongside Finweek's Vic de Klerk for reporting on Sharemax.
FM's Stephen Cranston won in the Companies sector, while Claire Bisseker won the award in the Broader Economy sector for an article in FM on private health care. Monthly awards were also given out.
All the winners
| Category | Name and publication |
|---|---|
| Overall winner: | Marc Ashton, Finweek/Fin24 |
| Small and Medium Enterprise | Marc Ashton, Fin24 |
| ICT | Duncan McLeod, TechCentral/Financial Mail |
| Personal Finance (Money | Larry Claasen, Financial Mail and Vic de Klerk, Finweek |
| Companies | Stephen Cranston, Financial Mail |
| The Broader Economy | Claire Bisseker, Financial Mail |
| Monthly: May 2010 | Marc Ashton, Fin24 |
| Monthly: June 2010 | Stafford Thomas, Financial Mail |
| Monthly: July 2010 | Thabiso Mochiko, Business Day |
| Monthly: August 2010 | Vic de Klerk, Finweek |
| Monthly: September 2010 | Stuart Theobold, Warren Dick and Jotham Makarudze, Investors Monthly |
| Monthly: October 2010 | Troye Lund, Finweek |
| Monthly: November 2010 | Sasha Planting, Financial Mail |
| Monthly: December 2010 | Stephen Cranston, Financial Mail |
| Monthly: January 2011 | Bruce Cameron and Neesa Moodely-Isaacs, Personal Finance |
| Monthly: February 2011 | Marc Ashton, Finweek |
Ashton received a trophy and R75 000 at the ceremony in Hyde Park, Johannesburg, presented by Telkom CEO Pinky Moholi and National Consumer Commissioner Mamodupi Moholi at the ceremony in Hyde Park.
"The Journalist of the Year awards are unique to South Africa in that entries do not need to be submitted, but are selected from published financial writing in print and on the Internet," said awards convenor and Classic Business anchor John Fraser.
Judges were Chris Gilmour from Absa Investments, Jeremy Sampson from Interbrand Sampson (now the Interbrand Sampson Group) and Simon Brown from JustOneLap.com.
