Awards Entry Form:

Best Media Reporting on Ethical and/or Impact Investment

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Entrants will show excellence in their media coverage of ethical investment and be able to cite a significant impact on public awareness and understanding of the issues.

This category is open to a broad range of New Zealand media including print, digital, radio, podcast, TV, video and documentary. This category is open to an individual journalist or a team.

There is no charge to enter this award category.

Please contact awards@mindfulmoney.nz if you have any queries about the awards process.

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Media Reporting nominee (Company or Individual)

Company Name, if the nominee is an individual:

Website

Main contact for this award

Email address

Position in organisation

Phone number

Award entry submission

Please keep your total number of words to 2500. The judges may ignore any wording over this limit.

Introduction

- Your role in the organisation - A brief description of your previous work on the issues of ethical investment and sustainable finance - For this application, number of your stories, description and context (include links)

Ability to engage audiences

Describe the media reporting that you are submitting for this award, including information on: - Audience reach and evidence of engagement derived from feedback or audience response - Examples of how you have made the content engaging to audiences - Are there specific audiences you aim to reach?

Knowledge and awareness raising

Show how your story extended the knowledge of the audience and raised their awareness of key issues. Include information from one or more examples of media coverage on how you: - Used innovative ways to provide information in an accessible way - Used research and analysis that extended the audience’s knowledge - Included ways to enable the audience to continue to deepen their understanding - Created pathways for the audience to take action or understand their role in the story - Extended the coverage of a topic into areas not covered in other media Acknowledged sources of information and credibility

Innovative storytelling

Outline, using examples, how you used innovative treatment to tell a fresh and compelling story, including: - Using innovative ways to draw in audiences and engage them with deeper content - Providing a fresh and novel approach to the topic

Impact of the coverage

- Provide information on how the media coverage has resulted in outcomes that contribute to positive change. - Does this media reporting form part of a wider strategy to raise awareness of ethical and/or ethical investment at your organisation? If so, what other initiatives are underway and what is their impact?

Supporting documentation

Please include URL links to any supporting documentation for your entry, such as links to articles and other content referenced in the entry. We strongly encourage you to use URLs for your supporting documentation, however if you need to email any to us please send them to awards@mindfulmoney.nz.

Declaration

All information provided to Mindful Money through the 2024 Mindful Money Awards Entry Form is true and correct to the best of my knowledge.

The above declaration is true.

Yes

Terms & Conditions of Entry

- There is no entry fee for this award category. - You may nominate your own business, or others. You do not have to be nominated in order to enter the awards. - All entrants must provide true and accurate information and disclose any liabilities such as business and/or tax related and/or current pending litigation, which could compromise the judges’ analysis of the business, and/or adversely affect the integrity and reputation of the Mindful Money Awards. - Mindful Money will not accept responsibility for errors or omissions reproduced in award publicity material, or for work lost or damaged. - Entrants should not make contact with the judges for lobbying or promoting their entry. - Judging will be based on the evidence provided in the initial entry. Judges are required to declare any conflicts of interest. - Judges and Mindful Money staff sign a confidentiality agreement requiring that the information submitted will not be used for any other purpose than the judging process. - Once shortlisted within a category, supplementary information may be required. - Finalists and winners agree to being involved in publicity related to the awards, including photo and other media opportunities with sponsors, judges and Mindful Money staff. - A representative of category finalists must be available to attend the Awards ceremony at the Maritime Room in Auckland CBD on 14th June in person. - Mindful Money reserves the right and shall be permitted at all times to use at their discretion any material submitted for the Awards, on the Mindful Money website and in promotional and educational material for the purposes of generating awareness and publicity about the annual awards events.

I have read the Terms & Conditions of Entry and agree to comply with them.

Yes

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