It was a triumphant night at the headlinemoney awards yesterday, with the team picking up two awards. The weekly Guardian Money section was voted Title of the year, while head of consumer, Jill Insley, picked up the Consumer journalist of the year award.
The judges, which included members of the finance industry and journalists, said Guardian Money was "the most fresh and original of the national personal finance sections, it always finds a new angle." The panel commended the range of topics covered by the section and the way subjects were perfectly angled at the paper's readership.
Jill Insley won her prize for pieces written while she was editor of the Observer Cash section, with the judges impressed by articles which revealed how thousands of carers faced losing their homes to pay IHT bills when a loved one died; how domestic violence is often reinforced by financial control over a victim; and how a debt epidemic is spreading to Britain's middle class. "These pieces are quite different from nearly everything else we've seen," said one judge. The panel concluded: "She consistently tries to put right financial wrongdoings."
