The National Business Review and its columnist Rachel Smalley have been nominated for awards at this year’s 50th annual New Zealand Media Awards.
NBR is among five finalists in the best news, current affairs or specialist publication category at the Voyager Media Awards, while Smalley is up against four other finalists for Best Columnist.
More than 1,650 entries were made across 64 awards, with 279 finalists selected by more than 100 judges. The winners will be announced on May 27.
During 2022, NBR unveiled an entirely refreshed website and brand-new app which allows our newsroom to provide our member subscribers with fast-moving, rich content across multiple formats.
We have also launched several new regular columns and features, including a focus on the Māori economy, Te Ōhanga Māori; labour and employment law analysis with Toil & Trouble; and Morning Brew, a daily wrap of overnight global business and political headlines.
We also wrote several stories of national significance, and continued to improve the revamped NBR List, which will be published in June.
Smalley’s entry featured her On the Record column from last October which made the case for why she believed Jacinda Ardern would not contest a third term, going against all political opinion at the time. Her other nominated columns include one dissecting the failings of the delayed Pharmac review and one about the silent survivors of Covid – our children.
“We are incredibly proud of the nomination for NBR, reflecting the enormously hard work and leading business and political journalism of all our team,” NBR co-editors Calida Stuart-Menteath and Hamish McNicol said.
“Smalley, meanwhile, continues to push with every column and this nomination is just recognition.
“Of course, none of this is possible without our member subscribers, with NBR a proudly independent, purely subscriber-funded publication. Thank you for your continued support.”
The recognition follows NBR senior journalists Tim Hunter and Dita de Boni picking up major prizes at the 2022 New Zealand Shareholders’ Association journalism awards, with Hunter also named the overall Business Journalist of the Year.
It was the second successive year NBR has won the overall award, with senior journalist Maria Slade winning last year. Hunter also won the top gong in 2019. Overall, five of our journalists were nominated at the NZSA award.
Hunter also won Business Journalist of the Year award in the 2020 Voyager Media Awards, following on from Stuart-Menteath's win in the same category a year earlier.
Voyager Media Awards nominations
Best news, current affairs or specialist publication
- Farmers Weekly | AgriHQ
- New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa | The Health Media
- Re: News | TVNZ
- Shit You Should Care About, Daily
- The National Business Review
Best Columnist
- Aroha Awarau | NZ Listener / Are Media
- Connie Buchanan | E-Tangata
- Josie Pagani | Dominion Post, The Press / Stuff
- Rachel Smalley | The National Business Review
- Andrea Vance | Sunday Star-Times / Stuff
