The Mail’s Personal Finance team wins big at prestigious industry awards

The quality of the Mail’s journalism has been recognised with a host of top honours at the Headlinemoney Awards – the most prestigious accolades in the personal finance industry.

Rachel Rickard Straus, Editor of The Mail on Sunday’s Wealth & Personal Finance section and Money Mail in the Daily Mail, was named Savings Journalist of the Year.

The judges praised her pieces for ‘always being well-written and engaging, covering a variety of important issues’.

Investigations Editor Tom Kelly and Assistant News Editor Jacob Dirnhuber won Personal Finance Story of the Year for their probe into scam schools. Judges cited their ‘brilliant journalism’ in highlighting a massive fraud problem in the UK.

Personal Finance writer Samantha Partington was named Mortgage Journalist of the Year for her ‘forensic’ approach to ‘engaging and enlightening stories’.

Personal Finance writer Samantha Partington was named Mortgage Journalist of the Year for her ‘forensic’ approach to ‘engaging and enlightening stories’

The Money Mail team were also shortlisted for Consumer Money Title of the Year and for Campaign of the Year with Pick Up Or Pay Up which calls for big organisations to answer the phone to customers or face fines. 

The Royal Mail Stamp Swap Fiasco campaign was also shortlisted for Personal Finance Story of the Year.

Group Wealth & Personal Finance Editor Jeff Prestridge was shortlisted for five awards, while Jessica Beard, Deputy Money Editor, was shortlisted for Pensions Journalist of the Year and Consumer Money Journalist of the Year. 

Sally Hamilton was shortlisted for Consumer Champion of the Year for her Money Mail column Sally Sorts It, and chief Money reporter Toby Walne was shortlisted for General Insurance Journalist of the Year.

As a result of her tireless work highlighting pensions injustice, the Outstanding Achievement Award was awarded to Tanya Jefferies, Investment and Pensions Editor of This is Money. 

Judges praised her work exposing state pension underpayments which went on to trigger a National Audit Office investigation, resulting in a Government report crediting her role in bringing the scandal to light.