Senior journalist Calida Stuart-Menteath wins NZ Journalist of the Year.
NBR senior journalist Calida Stuart-Menteath has been named New Zealand Journalist of the Year in the 2021 Citi Journalism Awards for Excellence.
Runner-up was another NBR senior journalist, Maria Slade, in a year that featured the most New Zealand entries in the awards’ history.
Stuart-Menteath, who is on maternity leave, said a lot of work had gone into her winning entries on the collapse of finance company FE Investments.
“I’m very surprised and honoured to win the award – and well done to Maria as well,” she said.
Her two-part series on FE Investments, published last October, covered the tangled web of linked companies involved in FE Investments’ $54 million failure and the investor group trying to find out where their money went.
Slade’s entry on the bonanza for banks from the Reserve Bank’s large-scale asset purchase programme also won the Business News award from the NZ Shareholders’ Association in November last year.
The Citi awards, sponsored by the Citi banking and financial services group in Australia, were judged by a panel “based on criteria that included analysis and understanding of the issue, introduction of new ideas, use of research and interviews, originality in thinking and impact”.
The overall award went to Michael Rodden of the Australian Financial Review for his series on AMP Capital boss Boe Pahari.
Stuart-Menteath returns from maternity leave in late January next year.
