2008 Maritime Media Awards Leaflet

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Maritime Media Awards

2008


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DESMOND WETTERN MEDIA AWARDfor Best Journalistic Contribution

Te Award is made o he wrier, broadcaser, media person or similar fgure who,

in he opinion o he Awards Commitee, has made he mos consrucive

conribuion o generaing public awareness o Briains curren mariime issues

during he qualiying period.

In making is award, he Awards Commitee will consider

he signifcance o issues chosen;

he range and deph o analysis;

he qualiy o assessmens concerning he uure;

he originaliy o he work; and

is impac on mariime policy, public awareness and individual commimen.

Te main ocus or his award is mariime journalism wheher in newspapers, periodicals, specialis

journals or echnical publicaions ha

susains an auhoriaive approach o promoing mariime awareness;

causes he signifcance o mariime evens o be repored in dieren media; and

conribues o a wider undersanding o mariime issues, including poliical issues.

Te winner may be seleced or heir work in any media orma, writen, oral, or visual.

Te prize is an engraved crystal decanter and a cheque or 1,000.

MOUNTBATTEN MARITIME AWARDfor Best Literary Contribution

Te Award is made o he person who, in he opinion o he Awards

Commitee, is he auhor o he work o lieraure, published during hequaliying period, ha conribues mos signifcanly o public

awareness o mariime issues.

Wheher he winning enry is a rue sory based on verifable ac or a

realisic work o fcion, i mus

demonsrae a rue undersanding o he mariime subjec; and

accuraely porray he inuence o he sea in he sory.

Te wriing may ake he orm o

a signifcan poem wih a mariime dimension;

a work wih a echnical heme describing a scienifc, economic, biological, oceanographic,

social, legal, adminisraive, indusrial or deence aspec o mariime endeavour;

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a biography o an individual whose lie and work inuence he mariime scene oday; or

a work o prose fcion wih a conemporary mariime heme.

Te prize is an engraved silver Armada Plate.

DONALD GOSLING AWARDfor Best Television, Film or Radio Contribution

Te Award is made o he direcor, producer, or oher person responsible or making he flm,

or elevision or radio programme, released or broadcas during he qualiying period, ha

in he opinion o he Awards Commitee has made he mos signifcan conribuion o he

public undersanding o a mariime mater relaing primarily o he Unied Kingdom.

In making he Award, consideraion will be given o

new insighs ha he programme brings o he subjec;

he auheniciy wih which i capures he realiy o aciviy associaed wih he sea;

he value o he programme in promoing susainable mariime aciviy and

saey a sea; and

he overall presenaion and qualiy o he programme, and is abiliy o capure public imaginaion.

Te work mus have been presened on a public nework, and may ake he orm o a fciious mariime drama o a conemporary naure;

a documenary or drama documenary reamen o recen mariime evens; or

a flm or programme supporing a mariime campaign in he public ineres.

Nominaions should be submited in CD or DVD orma.

Te prize is a pair o cr ystal dolphins mounted on

an engraved marble plinth.

How to nominate

Te qualiying period or 2008 Awards is he year

o 31 July 2008.

All candidaes mus be nominaed, and i is he

responsibiliy o he nominaor o sae clearly

why he individual has been nominaed and why

he work deserves he Award.

Nominaion orms can be obained rom heMariime Foundaion or downloaded rom

www.bmc.org.uk. Compleed orms should be sen by 31 Augus 2008 oMaritime Media Awards

Of ce, 102 Redwald Road, Rendlesham, Woodbridge, Suolk IP12 2E. For urher inormaion:

elephone 01394 420789 Fax01394 461314 Email: [email protected]

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Two more Maritime Awards for 2008

Maritime Fellowship Award

honouring an individual lietimes service

in a particular maritime sector. The sector

or 2008 is Marine Leisure,sponsored and

nominated by British Marine Federation.

The Desmond Wettern Fleet Award

honouring the HM ship, submarine,

Naval Air Squadron or Royal Marine

Unit that has best contributed to a

positive image o the RN during the

year. Sponsored, and nominated by

RN Fleet Media.


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Agains he background o a Cold War sill a is peak and

he looming Falkland conic, here was a eeling amongs

mariners ha i no acion were aken

o proec Briains mariime indusries,

here would be litle le o he Royal

Navy, he Briish Merchan Marine or

he fshing ees and heir supporing

inrasrucure by he end o he

cenury. Tis concern was highlighed

by a reversal in governmen policy

owards he mariime indusries and

he absence o a powerul poliical

voice o coordinae a major campaign. In consequence, i ledsenior reired naval o cers, leading shipowners and prominen

Ciy fgures in he mariime feld o orm he Mariime

Foundaion.

Te Mariime Foundaion promoes Briains ineress across

he enire mariime secor. Is purpose is o inorm and raise

public and parliamenary awareness o he imporance o

Briains mariime indusries, commerce and deence hrough

educaion, raining and research.

I has published a wide range o repors on he need or a

coheren mariime policy, including major sudies on he

Briish merchan ee and is linkages, deence maters, he

UK mariime skills base and heir conribuion o he

naions economy.

In addiion, he Foundaion was insrumenal in seting up

he Parliamenary Mariime Group, comprising members o all

paries rom boh Houses, as a body hrough which Parliamen

could be kep inormed o Briains mariime aairs.

Maritime Foundation

202 Lambeth Road,

London SE1 7JW 020 7928 8100

Charity No. 286784

President:The Countess Mountbatten of Burma CBE CD JP

AWARDS COMMITTEE

Julian Parker OBE Chairman

Mike Plumridge Awards Committee Secretary

Captain Mike Davis-Marks OBE RN, DPR(N)

Sarah Fletcher

Michael Grey MBE

Jeremy Harrison, Chamber o Shipping

Martin Muncaster

Proessor Sarah Palmer

Libby Purves OBE

Crispin Sadler

Rob White

Captain Richard Woodman

SOME SPONSORS OF PAST AWARDS

The Gosling Foundation

Lloyds Register

BAE Systems

Chamber o Shipping

The Swire Group

The Daily Telegraph

Royal Navy

The Wettern Trust

P&ONedlloyd (now Mrsk)

PAST WINNERSDesmond Wettern Media Award for

Best Journalistic Contribution

1995 Rob White and Rory Maclean

1996 Richard Scott

1997 Michael Evans

1998 Michael Grey

1999 Libby Purves

2000 Jim Allaway

2001 Richard Woodman

2002 Alison Keford

2003 Michael Stammers

2004 Manuela Sarris2005 Proessor Nicholas Rodger

2006 Dr Colin White

2007 Brian Lavery

Mountbatten Maritime Award for

Best Literary Contribution

2001 Rear Admiral Richard Hill

2002 Jim Ring

2003 Andrew Williams

2003 Peter Padeld

2004 Tom Pocock

2005 Proessor Roger Knight

2006 Nicolette Jones

2007 Andrew Welch

Crystal Dolphin Award for

Best Media Contribution

2006 Andrew Thompson

2007 Crispin Sadler

smond Wettern,the bridge of

MS Battleaxe in 1981.

celebrated writer on

aritime affairs for over

years, he was also

e Daily Telegraphs

val correspondent.

1993 the Royal

vy established the

smond Wettern

et Award in his

emory. The Maritime

undation, of which he

s a founder member,

eated the Desmondettern Media Award

commemorate

dedication to the

lief that the United

gdoms economic

ellbeing and security

e inextricably bound

with the sea.

The 2007 Awards winners (left to right): Brian Lavery

with Lady Mountbatten; Andrew Welch (speaking) with the

Foundations secretary, Anthony Harvey; and Crispin Sadler

with Lady Mountbatten.

The Countess

Mountbatten ofBurma CBE CD JP,

the Maritime

Foundations

president with

Anthony Harvey,

its secretary.

Partner supporting

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2008 Maritime Media Awards Leaflet