Business Day, Financial Mail win multiple journalism awards

Tamar Kahn (© Twitter), Claire Bisseker (© Twitter), Rob Rose (© Business Live), Alistair Anderson (© Sapoa Twitter)

Rob Rose, editor of the Financial Mail, and Claire Bisseker were respectively awarded for their journalism in the ‘Financial Markets’ and ‘Economy’ categories of the Sanlam Financial Journalist of the Year Awards 2016. This year, Ann Crotty, who currently writes for the Financial Mail and Business Day, was given the ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ at the Sanlam Financial Journalist of the Year event.

Health exposés

Tamar Kahn won the ‘Discovery Best Health Journalist: Analysis and Commentary’ award for ‘Why Motsoaledi’s health insurance plan seems set to fail’. The category was adjudicated on “clarity and originality of style, sound reasoning, depth of analysis and understanding and the power to influence public opinion.” Kahn’s other work that contributed to her receiving the overall ‘Health Journalist of the Year Award’ included South Africa’s closet deals between doctors and drug makers, amongst others.

Alistair Anderson won ‘Property News Journalist of the Year.’ Brian Azizollahoff, chairman of the Sapoa Property Journalism Awards for Excellence committee said, “The judging panel are very strict in ensuring that the best journalist wins this category, as the criteria here are more stringent than in the others. Of all six entries received in this category, as a panel, we felt that Alistair Anderson’s submissions were the best.”