Barrett Scoops Feature Writer and Journalist of the Year

Multiple IBP Journalism Award Winner Claer Barrett, writing for Investors Chronicle, demonstrated yet again her passion for the subject of her articles and received two top Awards at the IBP Awards presentations co-hosted with Resolution Property at the House of Commons.

Multiple IBP Journalism Award Winner Claer Barrett, writing for Investors Chronicle, demonstrated yet again her passion for the subject of her articles and received two top Awards at the IBP Awards presentations co-hosted with Resolution Property at the House of Commons.
Her writing in the Feature Writer of the Year category covered an array of highly topical subjects, and her style demonstrated a passion for the subject, Barrett is “an outstanding and deserving winner, her entries demonstrated a strong determination, she gets quickly to the point and fully covers all the angles,” the judges enthused.
In the IBP Journalist of the Year Category the judges compare the winners of each individual Award, and are thus faced with the dilemma of comparing the excellent with the brilliant. “Although the articles covered a wide range of styles, content and publications they together illustrated the strength of architecture, property and construction journalism in today’s media and the ingenuity and resources employed by the best writers in a sector which is more in the news, and warranting critical analysis, than it has been for many years? the judges said.

The judges praised Barrett’s outstanding article on the pitfalls of buy-to-let. “Claer showed her depth of knowledge and understanding of the subject and has clearly made herself an expert,” the judges commented. They praised her on the ground research and visits to seminars that provided her with the tools to write such a colourful and informative article. The judges were unanimous in declaring Claer the overall winner of the IBP 2009 Journalist of the Year Award.