About Contest
About Contest
"Business Circles Prize "PRESSzvanie" is an International Contest of Business Journalists, where juries (business leaders and editors of leading business media) estimate participants through an interactive voting system on the web-site (www.zvanie.com) in real time.
Business journalist is a journalist whose main purpose is gathering information about current events in the economy life of the country, about processes, tendencies, results and people, informational analysis, publication and spreading it through all types of mass media.
The main purpose is to carry out objective, transparent and unbiased estimation of Ukrainian business journalists.
The distinguishing feature of the Contest is its transparent on-line voting system that allows to check the score given to participants at any moment of time.
As the Contest takes place in Ukraine for the third year already (since 2005), it has gained the annual status.
220 participants - journalists of business and social and political periodicals took part in the Contest in 2006. Final Ceremony was attended by over 250 journalists and leaders of business. 12 journalists became the Winners of the Contest 2006.
Journalists will be estimated in 10 Profile nominations (experts in business, chief editors from business, social and political editions and industrial experts can vote):
1. Banks, finance, investments
2. Mining and smelting complex
3. Industrial production
4. Consumer markets
5. Insurance
6. Building and construction
7. Telecommunications and IT technologies
8. Transport
9. Oil and Gas
10. Energy sector
and in 3 Image nominations:
1. The Best Business Press Editor (businessmen, chief editors and journalists can vote)
2. The Best Business News and Programs TV Reporter (businessmen, news chief editors and TV journalists can vote)
3. Respect of colleagues (Only journalists can vote)
System of estimation
Voting is accomplished in every nomination on the site of the Contest: www.zvanie.com.
Jury of the Contest votes for every participant using the ten-point scale. The count of voices takes place in obedience to methodology indicated on the site of the Contest.
Journalists who got the highest number of points in every nomination become the Winners of the Contest.
All guests of the site can watch the picture of changes in the on-line voting in real time.
The basic criteria of estimation are: objectivity, accuracy, efficiency, skills of the presenting the information, urgency of the topic.
Key characteristics of the Contest 2007:
- professionalism, constant aspiration for world standards;
- sensation or pursuit of exclusive;
- journalist's personal style and recognizability, his own "handwriting" regardless of the style of the media he works for.
PRESSclub
The PRESSclub that was created in the year 2005 in the framework of the Contest, will continue functioning.
The main purpose of the PRESSclub is to assist journalists in their professional growth.
Currently there are more than 200 journalists that has become the members of the PRESSclub.
The following events are planned in the framework of the PRESSclub:
1. Master-class from the editor-in-chief of "Telekritika" Natalya Ligacheva for beginners in business journalism.
2. Briefing for journalists with one of the leading Russian business editors
3. Press-tour for journalists to one of European investment forums.
4. Trip for journalists to the "Fort Boyard" competition in Khotyn (combines recreation with elements of competition and extreme)
Every business journalist can be a Jury in Image nominations.
Slogan of the Contest 2007 is Business Uncovered. PRESSzvanie 2007.
Exclusive rights on holding the Contest in Ukraine belong to the company "Mainstream Communication & Consulting".
The Organizational committee of the Contest consists of:
- • Mainstream Communication & Consulting.
- • МАB (Moscow Association of Businessmen).
- • RUIB (Russian Union of Industrials and Businessmen).
- • URJ (Union of Russian Journalists).
- • UUJ (Union of Ukrainian Journalists).
All questions about methodology of the Contest are considered by Supervisory Board. It consists of business representatives and journalists-winners of the previous year.