IBP National Journalism Awards 2022
Closing date: Wednesday 14 September 2022
The IBP Journalism Awards 2022 took place on 17 November 2022. You can view the results on our new awards website.
Entry information
These awards recognise the very best journalism in property and the built environment and have become a benchmark for excellence. They are judged by a panel of influential journalists and industry professionals drawn from the built environment.
The awards categories are:
Architectural Writer
Construction/Infrastructure Writer
News Reporter of the Year
Feature Writer of the Year
Business/Financial Journalist of the Year
Housing/Residential Property Journalist of the Year
New Journalist of the Year
Digital Leadership of the Year
Editorial Brand of the Year
Scoop of the Year
IBP Journalist of the Year
Entry guidance
- Journalists may enter as many categories as they wish, although the same article cannot be submitted for more than one category.
- All articles should have been published in the twelve-month period ending 31 August 2022.
- Only one entry consisting of three articles is allowed per category from the same journalist. Each category entry must be accompanied by a completed entry form and three different articles/news stories published in the year ending 31 August 2022. The articles may have been published online or in print or both.
- Entry forms must have the full details, including contacts, of the journalist whose work is being entered. If the articles are not by-lined, confirmation of authorship from the editor should also be included in the entry form.
- A portfolio of three articles by more than one journalist may be submitted; each article must be by-lined by two or more writers and the names of at least two contributors must be common to no less than two articles, although not necessarily in the same combination.
- All entries may be accompanied by an explanation, maximum 200 words for each article, maximum 600 words for the entry. This is only mandatory for those categories marked with an asterisk below.
- All articles in each category must relate to the architecture, civil engineering, construction, commercial property and housing/residential sectors. Articles published in house journals/newsletters etc are not eligible.
IBP Journalism Award categories
Architectural Writer of the Year
Open to architectural writers who observe and report upon events and issues within the world of architecture. Equally entries are welcome from architectural critics that demonstrate the vital link between the art of architecture and society's understanding of it, providing a deeper, broader understanding of architecture as a significant force for change.
Construction/Infrastructure Writer of the Year
Entries in this category can consist of news and/or features in construction, infrastructure, utilities, civil engineering and transportation sectors.
News Reporter of the Year*
Entries in this category should be accompanied by an explanation of no more than 200 words per article, 600 words per entry, giving the background to the three articles submitted. For example, you may wish to explain that the story was an 'exclusive' or that the degree of research or teamwork required to produce the story was of particular merit.
Feature Writer of the Year*
Entries for this category should be accompanied by an explanation of no more than 200 words per article, 600 words per entry, outlining the articles' relevance to current issues in the construction/property industry. This category also allows for a series of articles (no more than three) on the same subject over two or more issues of a publication.
Business/Financial Journalist
This category is applicable to any aspect of the built environment. The award particularly seeks to recognise journalists writing business or financial stories. The judges will look for articles that demonstrate an overall understanding of the sector, subject, financing and the needs of their readers.
Commercial Property Writer
The judges are looking for entries that cover any aspect of commercial property, including offices, shops and warehousing. Topics could include new projects, redevelopments, market trends, valuations or people involved and might break news or improve the readers' understanding.
Housing & Residential Property Journalist of the Year
This category seeks to recognise journalists writing about the process of all forms of housing development including policy, land, design and reconstruction and/or sales, marketing and management issues for all forms of residential property.
New Journalist of the Year
Journalists entering this category should have no more than two years’ experience in the sectors covered by the awards to the year ending 31 August 2022, (verified by a letter from your editor). Entries should demonstrate good research, investigative style and bold subjects representative of the built environment across all the award categories.
Digital Leadership of the Year
This award is for an individual who has shown leadership in the way that they use digital communications. They will have gone beyond simply writing good stories and promoting them by social media; they will show how they have made more of their stories through, for example, data analysis or the use of other media such as podcasts or video. The judges are particularly looking for an innovative approach and for digital enhancement of already excellent pieces of work in imaginative ways.
Entrants should provide links to three pieces of work, showing how they used digital leadership. They should support their entry with appropriate measurement of engagement statistics, publicity generated or other metrics.
Please note: This is an award for individual enterprise, and not for initiatives by brands. These should enter Editorial Brand of the Year – see below.
Editorial Brand of the Year
This award recognises the brand that really stands out as a beacon of excellence in any or all formats. The judges are looking for evidence of a complete understanding of the needs of the target audience, a strong commercial performance, outstanding editorial content and design, and constant innovation in responding to the changing dynamics of the brand’s market.
To support this category entry the editor should select any three issues, if applicable, and provide three front-cover scans and, complementary to the chosen editions, a minimum of one feature and one breaking news article (a maximum of three articles can be submitted – including articles entered in the individual categories – in support of each issue). Alternatively, a link to a page turner edition (maximum three issues) can be submitted to support the entry and/or accessible links to digital material which should clearly demonstrate the use of research, choice and range of subjects, photography, design, layout, video and audio.
The editor should include a statement clearly outlining why they believe the multi-platform approach has substantially covered the market sector during the year ending 31 August 2022, with investigative reporting, features and news stories.
Scoop of the Year
This category rewards an outstanding piece of journalism that broke news with a big impact within the built environment sector. Consideration will be given to the relative significance of the story and the journalist's skill in obtaining the story and the information to support it. Stories can be broken on any platform and can be a straight news story or an investigative feature. Entrants should demonstrate proof of the story's exclusivity in the form of speed to market compared with rival coverage.
Candidates should accompany their article with a completed entry form and a statement of 300 words explaining:
- The significance of the story to the publication's readership
- How the story was obtained, researched and developed
Candidates should also provide evidence of:
- The impact the story had on the built environment sector
- Follow up by rival media
Speed to market relative to those follow ups. This could be in the form of screen shots showing time and/or date of publication; credit for the story given in other dated publications; written explanations highlighting how the text of the story shows it to be an exclusive (eg, direct, original quotes from an interviewee that were paraphrased in coverage elsewhere).
IBP Journalist of the Year
This award will be judged from the winning entries in the individual Journalist/Writer of the Year categories.
How to enter
Download the entry form here and then submit your completed entry form, along with your supporting articles to ibpjournalismawards@gmail.com
All entries should be submitted as PDFs, including links to online stories, digital editions etc. If there is a website paywall, please provide at least four guest logins to allow the judges to access your work.
Please ensure the size of the email is under 10MB or please send an email with links to download your submission using WeTransfer, Dropbox or other file transfer service.
You will receive a confirmation email that we’ve received your submission. If you do not receive this within three working days, please contact ibpjournalismawards@gmail.com
Cost and payment
The prices are as follows:
- Editor and Journalist rate:
Single entry: £100 + VAT (£20) = £120
Multiple entries, all categories: £60 + VAT (£12) = £72 per entry
- Freelance Journalist rate:
Single entry: £50 + VAT (£10) = £60
Multiple entries, all categories: £30 + VAT (£6) = £36 per entry
Please pay for your entry via PayPal below. You can also request an invoice by emailing us.
Shortlisting and awards
There will be one winner in each category and, in addition, some journalists may be highly commended.
The individual winner in each category will receive £500.
A shortlisting event will take place online on Thursday 13 October at 11am where the shortlists in each category will be announced. There will be up to six on the shortlist for each category.
The awards announcement and celebration will take place at IET Savoy Place on Thursday 17 November 2022. We hope that all shortlisted journalists and brands will attend, and will bring their friends and supporters.
Conditions of entry
- Entries should conform to the rules of submission with regard to length of text and content etc.
- The entrant must agree that the entry will remain in place on the IBP hosting server for an indeterminate period. Any content in submissions can be used by IBP in subsequent publicity or on the IBP web site when reporting on the awards.
- Entries must be submitted and paid for using PayPal by Wednesday 14 September at 6pm at the latest.
- The entry must remain legible when printed. Therefore, we suggest avoiding the use of ‘background’ images.
- For ease of identification, the pdf file name must contain the award category, the entrant’s name and company name or project title if applicable.
- The entrant must agree that any content in their submission can be used by IBP in subsequent publicity or on the IBP website when reporting on the awards.
- The judges’ decisions are final.
Questions about entries or payment
If you have questions or problems, please contact ibpjournalismawards@gmail.com
Closing date: Wednesday 14 September 2022
The IBP Journalism Awards 2022 took place on 17 November 2022. You can view the results on our new awards website.
Entry information
These awards recognise the very best journalism in property and the built environment and have become a benchmark for excellence. They are judged by a panel of influential journalists and industry professionals drawn from the built environment.
The awards categories are:
Architectural Writer
Construction/Infrastructure Writer
News Reporter of the Year
Feature Writer of the Year
Business/Financial Journalist of the Year
Housing/Residential Property Journalist of the Year
New Journalist of the Year
Digital Leadership of the Year
Editorial Brand of the Year
Scoop of the Year
IBP Journalist of the Year
Entry guidance
- Journalists may enter as many categories as they wish, although the same article cannot be submitted for more than one category.
- All articles should have been published in the twelve-month period ending 31 August 2022.
- Only one entry consisting of three articles is allowed per category from the same journalist. Each category entry must be accompanied by a completed entry form and three different articles/news stories published in the year ending 31 August 2022. The articles may have been published online or in print or both.
- Entry forms must have the full details, including contacts, of the journalist whose work is being entered. If the articles are not by-lined, confirmation of authorship from the editor should also be included in the entry form.
- A portfolio of three articles by more than one journalist may be submitted; each article must be by-lined by two or more writers and the names of at least two contributors must be common to no less than two articles, although not necessarily in the same combination.
- All entries may be accompanied by an explanation, maximum 200 words for each article, maximum 600 words for the entry. This is only mandatory for those categories marked with an asterisk below.
- All articles in each category must relate to the architecture, civil engineering, construction, commercial property and housing/residential sectors. Articles published in house journals/newsletters etc are not eligible.
IBP Journalism Award categories
Architectural Writer of the Year
Open to architectural writers who observe and report upon events and issues within the world of architecture. Equally entries are welcome from architectural critics that demonstrate the vital link between the art of architecture and society's understanding of it, providing a deeper, broader understanding of architecture as a significant force for change.
Construction/Infrastructure Writer of the Year
Entries in this category can consist of news and/or features in construction, infrastructure, utilities, civil engineering and transportation sectors.
News Reporter of the Year*
Entries in this category should be accompanied by an explanation of no more than 200 words per article, 600 words per entry, giving the background to the three articles submitted. For example, you may wish to explain that the story was an 'exclusive' or that the degree of research or teamwork required to produce the story was of particular merit.
Feature Writer of the Year*
Entries for this category should be accompanied by an explanation of no more than 200 words per article, 600 words per entry, outlining the articles' relevance to current issues in the construction/property industry. This category also allows for a series of articles (no more than three) on the same subject over two or more issues of a publication.
Business/Financial Journalist
This category is applicable to any aspect of the built environment. The award particularly seeks to recognise journalists writing business or financial stories. The judges will look for articles that demonstrate an overall understanding of the sector, subject, financing and the needs of their readers.
Commercial Property Writer
The judges are looking for entries that cover any aspect of commercial property, including offices, shops and warehousing. Topics could include new projects, redevelopments, market trends, valuations or people involved and might break news or improve the readers' understanding.
Housing & Residential Property Journalist of the Year
This category seeks to recognise journalists writing about the process of all forms of housing development including policy, land, design and reconstruction and/or sales, marketing and management issues for all forms of residential property.
New Journalist of the Year
Journalists entering this category should have no more than two years’ experience in the sectors covered by the awards to the year ending 31 August 2022, (verified by a letter from your editor). Entries should demonstrate good research, investigative style and bold subjects representative of the built environment across all the award categories.
Digital Leadership of the Year
This award is for an individual who has shown leadership in the way that they use digital communications. They will have gone beyond simply writing good stories and promoting them by social media; they will show how they have made more of their stories through, for example, data analysis or the use of other media such as podcasts or video. The judges are particularly looking for an innovative approach and for digital enhancement of already excellent pieces of work in imaginative ways.
Entrants should provide links to three pieces of work, showing how they used digital leadership. They should support their entry with appropriate measurement of engagement statistics, publicity generated or other metrics.
Please note: This is an award for individual enterprise, and not for initiatives by brands. These should enter Editorial Brand of the Year – see below.
Editorial Brand of the Year
This award recognises the brand that really stands out as a beacon of excellence in any or all formats. The judges are looking for evidence of a complete understanding of the needs of the target audience, a strong commercial performance, outstanding editorial content and design, and constant innovation in responding to the changing dynamics of the brand’s market.
To support this category entry the editor should select any three issues, if applicable, and provide three front-cover scans and, complementary to the chosen editions, a minimum of one feature and one breaking news article (a maximum of three articles can be submitted – including articles entered in the individual categories – in support of each issue). Alternatively, a link to a page turner edition (maximum three issues) can be submitted to support the entry and/or accessible links to digital material which should clearly demonstrate the use of research, choice and range of subjects, photography, design, layout, video and audio.
The editor should include a statement clearly outlining why they believe the multi-platform approach has substantially covered the market sector during the year ending 31 August 2022, with investigative reporting, features and news stories.
Scoop of the Year
This category rewards an outstanding piece of journalism that broke news with a big impact within the built environment sector. Consideration will be given to the relative significance of the story and the journalist's skill in obtaining the story and the information to support it. Stories can be broken on any platform and can be a straight news story or an investigative feature. Entrants should demonstrate proof of the story's exclusivity in the form of speed to market compared with rival coverage.
Candidates should accompany their article with a completed entry form and a statement of 300 words explaining:
- The significance of the story to the publication's readership
- How the story was obtained, researched and developed
Candidates should also provide evidence of:
- The impact the story had on the built environment sector
- Follow up by rival media
Speed to market relative to those follow ups. This could be in the form of screen shots showing time and/or date of publication; credit for the story given in other dated publications; written explanations highlighting how the text of the story shows it to be an exclusive (eg, direct, original quotes from an interviewee that were paraphrased in coverage elsewhere).
IBP Journalist of the Year
This award will be judged from the winning entries in the individual Journalist/Writer of the Year categories.
How to enter
Download the entry form here and then submit your completed entry form, along with your supporting articles to ibpjournalismawards@gmail.com
All entries should be submitted as PDFs, including links to online stories, digital editions etc. If there is a website paywall, please provide at least four guest logins to allow the judges to access your work.
Please ensure the size of the email is under 10MB or please send an email with links to download your submission using WeTransfer, Dropbox or other file transfer service.
You will receive a confirmation email that we’ve received your submission. If you do not receive this within three working days, please contact ibpjournalismawards@gmail.com
Cost and payment
The prices are as follows:
- Editor and Journalist rate:
Single entry: £100 + VAT (£20) = £120
Multiple entries, all categories: £60 + VAT (£12) = £72 per entry - Freelance Journalist rate:
Single entry: £50 + VAT (£10) = £60
Multiple entries, all categories: £30 + VAT (£6) = £36 per entry
Please pay for your entry via PayPal below. You can also request an invoice by emailing us.
Shortlisting and awards
There will be one winner in each category and, in addition, some journalists may be highly commended.
The individual winner in each category will receive £500.
A shortlisting event will take place online on Thursday 13 October at 11am where the shortlists in each category will be announced. There will be up to six on the shortlist for each category.
The awards announcement and celebration will take place at IET Savoy Place on Thursday 17 November 2022. We hope that all shortlisted journalists and brands will attend, and will bring their friends and supporters.
Conditions of entry
- Entries should conform to the rules of submission with regard to length of text and content etc.
- The entrant must agree that the entry will remain in place on the IBP hosting server for an indeterminate period. Any content in submissions can be used by IBP in subsequent publicity or on the IBP web site when reporting on the awards.
- Entries must be submitted and paid for using PayPal by Wednesday 14 September at 6pm at the latest.
- The entry must remain legible when printed. Therefore, we suggest avoiding the use of ‘background’ images.
- For ease of identification, the pdf file name must contain the award category, the entrant’s name and company name or project title if applicable.
- The entrant must agree that any content in their submission can be used by IBP in subsequent publicity or on the IBP website when reporting on the awards.
- The judges’ decisions are final.
Questions about entries or payment
If you have questions or problems, please contact ibpjournalismawards@gmail.com
