MediaConnect Asian IT Journalist Awards

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2007 Judging Criteria

Best Tech Media Website

The Best Technology Media Website award will honour the service that best uses the medium of online to serve the information needs of its readers.
A panel of three judges with experience in online technology media will preside over this category.

The four criteria are:
Quality of Content
Stories and articles should be well-written and well-researched showing a high degree of writing skill and flair. A website should be an invaluable information source. Its editorial should be thought-provoking, causing its users to question their thinking and expand their understanding and knowledge. It should be a thought leader to the audience it serves.

Innovation and Use of Technology
A website should be innovative and creative making the best use of up-to-date technology to consistently stimulate its users.

Interactivity and Value
A Website should be interactive and user friendly with a well-developed understanding of its readership and their information needs. It should seek to engage the reader beyond a superficial level and where appropriate develop a sense of community, through its editorial, website, feedback and other activities.

Editing and Production Quality
A website should be visually appealing or at least appropriate for its readership, with graphics that enhance the text, a logical layout, structure, headlines and captions that draw in the reader.

Best Personal Technology Title

The Best Personal Technology Title award will recognise the magazine, newspaper, website or combination of mediums that is most successful in serving users of personal technologies, including home technologies, personal computers, lifestyle technologies and gadgets.

The four criteria are:
Quality of Content
Stories and articles should be well-written and well-researched showing a high degree of writing skill and flair.

Value to Reader
A Title should have a well-developed understanding of its readership and the information needs of its readership.

Production Quality
A Title should be visually appealing or at least appropriate for its readership, with graphics that enhance the text, a logical layout and structure and headlines and captions that draw in the reader.

Creativity
A Title should be innovative, a thought-leader and utilise advanced publishing techniques. It should seek to engage the reader beyond a superficial level and where appropriate develop a sense of community, through its editorial, web site and other activities.

Best Business Technology Title

The Best Business Technology Title award will recognise the magazine, newspaper, website or combination of mediums that is most successful in serving the information needs of CIOs and IT and/or business managers, effectively conveying relevant technology issues in business terms.

The four criteria are:
Quality of Content
Stories and articles should be well-written and well-researched showing a high degree of writing skill and flair.

Value to Reader
A Business Technology Title should have a well-developed understanding of its readership and the information needs of its readership.

Production Quality
A Business Technology Title should be visually appealing or at least appropriate for its readership, with graphics that enhance the text, a logical layout and structure and headlines and captions that draw in the reader.

Creativity
A Business Technology Title should be innovative, a thought-leader and utilise advanced publishing techniques. It should seek to engage the reader beyond a superficial level and where appropriate develop a sense of community, through its editorial, web site and other activities.

Best Technology Industry Title

The Best Technology Industry Title award will recognise the title that has best covered IT and/or telecommunications industry news and issues, effectively investigating and covering IT companies and the issues that relate to those companies and their investors.

The four criteria are:
Quality of Content
Stories and articles should be well-written and well-researched showing a high degree of writing skill and flair.

Value to Reader
A Technology Industry Title should have a well-developed understanding of its readership and the information needs of its readership.

Production Quality
A Technology Industry Title should be visually appealing or at least appropriate for its readership, with graphics that enhance the text, a logical layout and structure and headlines and captions that draw in the reader.

Creativity
A Technology Industry Title should be innovative, a thought-leader and utilise advanced publishing techniques. It should seek to engage the reader beyond a superficial level and where appropriate develop a sense of community, through its editorial, web site and other activities.

The Best Technology Industry Journalist

The Best Technology Industry Journalist will award the journalist whose writing is the most effective in meeting the information needs of IT industry executives and investors, effectively investigating and covering IT companies and the issues that relate to those companies and their investors.

The five criteria are:
Value to reader
Articles should be very relevant and of great value to the readership being targeted.

Readability
Articles should be written in a manner that makes them easily understood by the target audience.

Depth
Articles should be impeccably researched, relying on multiple and well-credentialed sources, as well as demonstrating a developed and authoritative grasp of the topic at hand.

Uniqueness
Articles should be somewhat unique, delivering new information, or a new spin on previously documented issues or news.

Flair
Articles should show flow, accuracy, balance and creativity in the manner they are written, drawing the reader into the story with well-crafted, entertaining and/or powerful phrasing, analogies, quotes and imagery. Nominations containing typos, spelling mistakes and/or factual errors may be automatically disqualified.

The Best Business Technology Journalist

The Best Business Technology Journalist will award the journalist whose writing is the most effective in meeting the information needs of CIOs and IT and/or business managers by effectively conveying relevant technology issues in business terms.

The five criteria are:
Value to reader
Articles should be very relevant and of great value to the readership being targeted.

Readability
Articles should be written in a manner that makes them easily understood and read by CIOs, IT and/or business managers.

Depth
Articles should be impeccably researched, relying on multiple and well-credentialed sources, as well as demonstrating a developed and authoritative grasp of the topic at hand.

Uniqueness
Articles should be somewhat unique, delivering new information, or a new spin on previously documented issues or news.

Flair
Articles should show flow, accuracy, balance and creativity in the manner they are written, drawing the reader into the story with well-crafted, entertaining and/or powerful phrasing, analogies, quotes and imagery. Nominations containing typos, spelling mistakes and/or factual errors will be automatically disqualified.

The Best Consumer Journalist

The Best Consumer Technology Journalist award will award the journalist whose writing is the most effective in meeting the information needs of a non-technical audience, effectively explaining how technology is relevant and can be used by the consumer market.

The five criteria are:
Readability
Articles should be written in a manner that makes them easily understood by the target audience.

Depth
Articles should be impeccably researched, relying on multiple and well-credentialed sources, as well as demonstrating a developed and authoritative grasp of the topic at hand.

Value to reader
Articles should be very relevant and of great value to the readership being targeted.

Flair
Articles should show flow, accuracy, balance and creativity in the manner they are written, drawing the reader into the story with well-crafted, entertaining and/or powerful phrasing, analogies, quotes and imagery. Nominations containing typos, spelling mistakes and/or factual errors may be automatically disqualified.

Uniqueness
Articles should be somewhat unique, delivering new information, or a new spin on previously documented issues or news.

 

The Best Technology Reviewer

The Best Technology Reviewer recognises the journalist who has best used the product review format to provide information that assists users in the technology buying process.

The five criteria are:
Value to reader
Articles should be very relevant and of great value to the readership being targeted.

Readability
Articles should be written in a manner that makes them easily understood by the target audience.

Depth
Articles should be impeccably researched, relying on multiple and well-credentialed sources, as well as demonstrating a developed and authoritative grasp of the topic at hand.

Uniqueness
Articles should be somewhat unique, delivering new information, or a new spin on previously documented issues or news.

Flair
Articles should show flow, accuracy, balance and creativity in the manner they are written, drawing the reader into the story with well-crafted, entertaining and/or powerful phrasing, analogies, quotes and imagery. Nominations containing typos, spelling mistakes and/or factual errors may be automatically disqualified.

The Best Gaming Journalist

The Best Gaming Journalist will award the journalist whose writing is the most effective in meeting the information needs of the gaming community.

The five criteria are:
Value to reader
Articles should be very relevant and of great value to the readership being targeted.

Readability
Articles should be written in a manner that makes them easily understood by the target audience.

Depth
Articles should be impeccably researched, relying on multiple and well-credentialed sources, as well as demonstrating a developed and authoritative grasp of the topic at hand.

Flair
Articles should show flow, accuracy, balance and creativity in the manner they are written, drawing the reader into the story with well-crafted, entertaining and/or powerful phrasing, analogies, quotes and imagery. Nominations containing typos, spelling mistakes and/or factual errors may be automatically disqualified.

Uniqueness
Articles should be somewhat unique, delivering new information, or a new spin on previously documented issues or news.

 

The Best Technology Blogger

 

The Best Technology Blogger award will honour the blog that best uses the medium of online blogs to serve the information needs of its readers.

The four criteria are:

Quality of Content
Stories and articles should be well-written and well-researched showing a high degree of writing skill and flair. The blog should be an invaluable information source. Its editorial should be thought-provoking, causing its users to question their thinking and expand their understanding and knowledge. It should be a thought leader to the audience it serves.

Innovation and Use of Technology
A blog should be innovative and creative, making the best use of up-to-date technology to consistently stimulate its users.

Interactivity and Value
A blog should be interactive and user friendly with a well-developed understanding of its readership and their information needs. It should seek to engage the reader beyond a superficial level and where appropriate develop a sense of community, through its editorial, website, feedback and other activities.

 

Editing and Production Quality
A blog should be visually appealing or at least appropriate for its readership, with graphics that enhance the text, a logical layout, structure, headlines and captions that draw in the reader.