CATEGORIES

TELEVISION - GENERAL NEWS
News reports and breaking stories of a general nature, covering day-to-day events. Maximum four minutes.
Applicable media: Television
Winner: Nonkumbelo Sithole for Camps in eTV Prime Time News

TELEVISION - FEATURE
Features covering news and current affairs with an in-depth perspective.
Applicable media: Television
Winner: Joy Summers for Water aired on M-Net's Carte Blanche

PRINT - GENERAL NEWS
News reports and breaking stories of a general nature, covering day-to-day events.
Applicable media: Print
Winner: Beauregard Tromp for The Burning Man in The Star

PRINT - FEATURE
An in-depth perspective on a subject of a general nature.
Applicable media: Print
Winner: Thanduxolo Jika for Dying To Live in Daily Dispatch

RADIO - GENERAL NEWS
News reports and breaking stories of a general nature, covering day-to-day events. Maximum three minutes.
Applicable media: Radio
Winner: Nomsa Maseko for Xenophobia in Gauteng on Talk Radio 702

RADIO - FEATURE
Features covering general topics and current affairs with an in-depth perspective.
Applicable media: Radio
Winner: Siphiwe Cyril Mnguni for Utrecht on SABC News

FINANCIAL/ECONOMIC (In association with the JSE)
Stories of a financial/economic nature across all media.
Applicable media: Print, Radio, Television, and/or Online
Winner: Claire Bisseker for On Pins and Needles in Financial Mail

COLUMNIST
Opinion pieces published regularly across all media.
Applicable media: Print, Radio, Television, and/or Online
Winner: Brian Hayward for One Wedding, Two Cultures And… in The Weekend Post

CARTOONIST
Cartoons published regularly across all media.
Applicable media: Print and/or Online
Winner: Jonathan Shapiro for Rape of Justice in The Sunday Times

PHOTOGRAPHY
Photographs or photographic essays published across all media.
Applicable media: Print and/or Online
Winner: Alon Skuy for Living Inside A Bridge in both The Times and Mail & Guardian. (There was a commendation by the judging panel to Ronelle Ramsamy for the photograph Head Hunted of the Zululand Observer.)

SPORT
An in-depth story across all media.
Applicable media: Print, Radio, Television, Photography and/or Online
Winner: Johann Russouw for reportage of the terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Pakistan on RSG

COMMUNITY MEDIA
Independent grassroots community media focused on community issues across all media.
Applicable media: Print, Radio, Television, Photography and/or Online
Winner: Munadia Karaan for the Muslim marriage act that made global history in Voice of the Cape

ONLINE JOURNALISM (In association with Nokia)
Online Journalism includes internet based and MP3 based media, such as podcasts, blogs, and photography, as well as web-based newsletters and columns. These being available on a 'free access' basis and that are not carried in the 'traditional' media of print, radio and television. The entry must have been originally created for the online medium. All new media material must be posted on the site within the stipulated period.
Applicable media: Online
Winner: Tegan Bedser, Shadley Haupt, Jan Hennop, Theo Jephta, Thanduxolo Jika, Rudi Louw, Sino Majangaza and Andrew Trench for Dying To Live posted on the Daily Dispatch site.

EDITORS CHOICE
Editors throughout South Africa to nominate their most promising young journalists who have been in the business for a minimum of two and a maximum of five years.
Applicable media: All media.
Winner: Sikonathi Mantshantsha from Finweek