Fairfax journos prevail in NPC awards night
By Jonas Lopez in Media News on Friday, 18th May 2018 at 1:41pmThis year’s National Press Club (NPC)/Westpac Bank awards for excellence in financial journalism was all about staff members from Fairfax Media outlets.
The Financial Journalist of the Year Award went to Adele Ferguson and Ruth Williams from The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald for their coverage of ‘junk’ life insurance linked to super policies.
Surprisingly, the same gong was also bestowed on the Australian Financial Review’s Jo Aston, Edmund Tadros, Aaron Patrick, and Patrick Durkin for covering management issues at CPA Australia.
Ferguson/Williams also earned a Personal and Consumer Finance award, and Aston/Tadros/Patrick/Durkin prevailed on the Business and Company category.
Organisers stated that the joint awarding for Financial Journalist of the Year wa...
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