The PR industry is getting its own back on the journalistic community with the Communicative Relations Awards from PR Professionals (The CRAPPS). Organised by 10 Yetis PR, the winners are due to be announced on 15 December. Being nominated for any award by the PR industry has to be a mixed blessing for a journalist, and these ones certainly are. Here are the nominations anyway:
1. The journalist that makes you feel warm and furry on the inside
• Adrian Bridgwater – freelance
• Alan Hubbard – Independent on Sunday
• Ben Moss – sport.co.uk
• Mary Bowers – The Times
• Miya Knights – Retail Technology
• Paul Lampkin – Pocket-lint
• Sophy Ridge – News of the World
• Tara Evans – This is Money
• Tom Wiggins – Stuff
• Tricia Phillips – Daily Mail
2. The ‘most likely to tell you to sling your hook’ award
• Alan Burkitt Grey – Global Telecoms Business
• Charles Arthur – The Guardian
• Chris Blackhurst – London Evening Standard
• Fiona Harvey – The Financial Times
• Gary Flood – freelance
• Joe McGrath – What Investment
• Mike Butcher – Techcrunch
• Miles Brignall – The Guardian
• Pete Swabey – Information Age
• Sean Poulter – Daily Mail
3. The ‘best blogger’ PR award
• Adam Vincinenzi – COMMS Corner
• Ben Cotton – Social Web Thing
• Chris Lee – Planet Content
• Juliana Farha – freelance
• Martin J Robbins – The Lay Scientist
• Sal Romano – scrawlfx
• Sally Whittle – Who’s the Mummy?
• Sarah Ewing – freelance
• Stephen Waddington – Wadds’ PR Blog
• Tom Fordyce – BBC Sports
4. Least twattish Twitterer – the must follow journo
• Caitlin Moran – The Times
• Charles Arthur – The Guardian
• Charlie Thomas – Pensions Management
• Darren Waters – BBC
• Dr Ben Goldacre – The Guardian
• Emma Barnett – The Daily Telegraph
• Graham Norwood – freelance
• Harry Wallop – The Daily Telegraph
• Jeff Prestridge – Daily Mail
• Sophy Ridge – News of the World
5. Journalist you’d most like to bring to the dark side (employ as a PR)
• Amy Duncan – The Metro
• Charlie Brooker – The Guardian
• Harry Wallop – The Daily Telegraph
• Jane Hamilton – The Sun
• Jemima Kiss – The Guardian
• Mark Dye – freelance
• Mark Gilbert – The Sun
• Sarah Ewing – freelance
• Simeon de la Torre – FHM
• Sophie Donnelly – The Daily Express
6. Most approachable daily national newspaper
• The Daily Express
• The Daily Mail
• The Daily Mirror
• The Daily Telegraph
• The Daily Sport
• The Daily Star
• The Financial Times
• The Guardian
• The Independent
• The Metro
• The Sun
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