Shortlist

The 2008 Shortlist

Best Broadcast Feature

- Nigel Cassidy of BBC World TV
- Peter Day and Sandra Kanthal of BBC RadioFour
- Jeff Randall and Martin Small of ITV1
- Jeff Randall of BBC Radio 5 Live
- Andrew Verity, Richard Bee, Sherry Astley and Anouk Curry of BBC 2

Best Broadcast Story

- Rory Cellan-Jones, Ming Tsang and Jonathan Fildes of BBC World
- Faisal Islam of Channel 4 News
- Brian Martinez, Wolfgang Driessler, Cathy Stevens, Jenny Moloney, Terrie Cooney and Elliott Gotkine of Bloomberg Televison
- Robert Peston of 10pm News, BBC 1
- Martin Shankleman of Newsnight, BBC 2

Best Commentator

- Philip Coggan of The Economist
- Gary Duncan of The Times
- Larry Elliott of The Guardian
- Nils Pratley of The Guardian
- Martin Wolf of The Financial Times

Best Communicator

- John Authers of The Financial Times
- Edward Carr of The Economist
- Michelle Conlin of BusinessWeek Magazine
- John Gapper of The Financial Times
- Anthony Hilton of The Evening Standard

Best Corporate Journalist or Team

- Diane Brady of BusinessWeek Magazine
- Edward Chancellor and Lauren Silva of breakingviews.com
- Mike Esterl and David Crawford of The Wall Street Journal Europe
- Alistair Osborne of The Daily Telegraph
- Greg Wood of BBC Radio 4

Best Deadline or Breaking News Story

- Philip Aldrick, Katherine Griffiths and Myra Butterworth of The Daily Telegraph
- Michelle Cortez, Jef Feeley, Andrea Gerlin and Lisa Rapaport of Bloomberg News
- Krishna Guha of The Financial Times
- Carrick Mollenkamp, Robin Sidel and Deborah Solomon of The Wall Street Journal Europe
- Jason Singer, Cecilie Rohwedder and Christina Passariello of The Wall Street Journal Europe

Best Economics Journalist or Team

- Edward Chancellor of the Institutional Investor Magazine
- Hamish McRae of The Independent
- John O'Sullivan of The Economist
- Allan Sloan of Fortune Magazine
- Pam Woodall of The Economist

Best Finance & Markets Journalist or Team

- Philip Coggan of The Economist
- David Evans of Bloomberg News
- Gillian Tett, Richard Beales, Saskia Scholtes, Paul J. Davies, and Anuj Gangahar of the Financial Times
- Emily Thornton of BusinessWeek Magazine
- Matthew Valencia of The Economist

Best Magazine Story

- Stephan Faris of Fortune Magazine
- Jonathan Laing of Barron's Magazine
- Bill Powell and Adam Zagorin of Time Magazine
- Michael Smith and Carlos Caminada of Bloomberg Markets
- Adam Smith of Time Magazine

Best Newspaper Story

- Mure Dickie The Financial Times
- Fiona Harvey, Stephen Fidler, Chris Bryant, Jonathan Wheatley, Amy Yee and John Aglionby of The Financial Times
- Lawrie Holmes of The Sunday Express
- Terry Macalister of The Guardian
- Carrick Mollenkamp and Ian McDonald of The Wall Street Journal Europe

Best Online/Wire Service Journalist or Team

- Dana Cimilluca, Dennis K. Berman and Tennille Tracy of The Wall Street Journal Online
- David Dietz and Darrell Preston of Bloomberg News
- David Gaffen of The Wall Street Journal Online
- Simon Nixon of breakingviews.com
- Michael Rapoport of Dow Jones Newswires

Best Personal Finance Journalist or Team

- Victoria Knight of Dow Jones Newswires
- David Prosser of The Independent
- Pat Regnier and Amanda Gengler of Money
- Daniel Thomas of The Financial Times
- Walter Updegrave and Kate Ashford of Money

Best Scoop

- Martin Arnold of The Financial Times
- Tim Catts of BusinessWeek Magazine
- Robert Peston of BBC News 24
- Grant Ringshaw of The Sunday Times
- Stephen Wright of DowJones Newswires

The Business Journalist of the Year

The most outstanding winner from all of the previous categories

The Decade of Excellence Award

- Iain Carson of The Economist
- Evan Davis of the BBC
- Hugo Dixon of breakingviews
- Robert Peston of the BBC
- John Plender of the Financial Times
- Robert Thomson of The Wall Street Journal